Poser from a professional programming point of view: Very non-OS standard and not at all easy to use to those of us familiar with the Windows interface. If I were to have presented this to a group of my users, I'd have been shot down in a minute. No real button bars at all, let alone control over them. No list of recent files. No multiple window capability. Running at high resolutions makes captions unreadable. No directory control....(on and on). That said, it ain't really that bad. Poser was designed with one thing in mind, posing life figures without having to rebuild the object every time. Add standardized mapping, and you have a killer application. Nothing else really compares, and for a pretty low price. With the tremendous community of Poser developers and artists and it suddenly becomes a cult. There are freebies, good for sale products, and great tutorials to help. Oh, I forgot basic animation. The interface is non-standard to anything, but not too dificult to learn. There are hundreds of tutorials from the basics to the most esoteric to help. (And I have problems even getting a simple help file written for an accounting application.) I'd never give it to my user base, but I'd pay twice as much to get it for myself. Hopefully a lot of Poser 4's shortcomings will be fixed in Version 5. I'll find out as soon as it gets delivered.