Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=278202

I can't believe some of the responses here.... Poser 5 kicks ass on Poser 4, Yes a little slower and yes there is still some bugs that need to be worked out (CL is working hard to fix).

Easier Posing
First off, the new dial controls make it so much easier to pose. The new morph putty tool and the new scale rotation tool also make it easier to pose.
What used to take me two hours I can now do in about five minutes.

Raytrace Render
The new render kicks ass on anything you will get out of Bryce... Realistically you could create a Bryce type scene easier in Poser 5 than you could export all the Poser stuff to Bryce and render there.

The Cloth room is very easy to use and really helps expand what you can create.

The hair Dynamics is cool, I have not mastered it yet but I can safely say that the next closes thing to this you would have to spend at least $5500.00 on another program.

The face room is cool, but not really the high light of the program.

The most awesome part, which at first is a little intimidating, is the Material Room. Here is where Poser really grows up and becomes a real 3D app. With any good raytrace render there has to be a good material shader tree. The shader tree in this program is based on the same interface and structure as Renderman, or PRMan the render that Pixar uses.... this thing is powerful.....
Like I said a little intimidating at first (especially compared to Poser 4) but really cool. Once you experiment a little you will soon realize that it is not as hard as it seems and the possibilities are endless.....

Just check this render that I did....
This is one night of experimenting with reflections and refractions.
http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=278202

This program is well worth every penny and more.....
if you have an older machine you may need to upgrade to something a little more powerful, and until CL works out all the bugs (they are getting close) you will have to tolerate some nuances, but I guarantee that this will be the best software purchase upgrade you make this year.