Argile is like a part of Quidam : you can sculpt a character and then export it to a renderer (Bryce, Vue, Carrara, C4D, Lightwave....) or export a Poser Character, modify the shape, and then export it and get it back in Poser as a morphtarget (it works like a charm, no need to tweak anything).
You can also modify the textures of your Poser characters directly in 3D or paint a completly new texture on the object (the object needs to have UV coordinates applied on it but Poser characters and objects have it)

Cédric

hello mariner.
there is a demo you can download. Maybe it's interesting for you to try it before send 100$...
(I don't know the limitations of the demo version)
Cédric

I put a quick made english version (I hope it's not too bad, my english is sometime hasardous)

http://www.cedrictrojani.fr/2008/04/18/put-your-hands-in-the-clay-argile/
I'm sorry, I hadn't time to translate the image but I guess it's not a big probleme.

Cédric

Thank you I know some of these links but I thought it could be interesting to have a newsgroup because I find it more fast than a web forum or a mailing lis, at least it's different. By the way, I find it interesting to create a newsgroup on a server like 3dvf because the site has newsgroups about many 3D programs and it's always interesting to have cool neighbours :) but if the french community is small, it's better to wait and not to open another vue d'esprit community Cric

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