I would like to hear from someone who has had the opportunity to master Poser as well as any other high-end 3D application (3DSmax, Lightwave, Maya, XSI, Cinema4D). My question is somewhat complicated to summe it up, so I'll rather explain: I am myself a character developer, I use 3DSmax for this. I am mostly an artist, a techy artist, but mostly on the artistic side of it all. Recently someone asked me to create human figures with Poser, in order to accelerate the process and to keep the costs down. Poser seems to suit his purposes as he doesn't need me to invent any particular style or kind of character, keeping them somewhat generic is what he wants. Now, I must mention that I was having many reservations as to how much Poser could handle, therefore I was already contemplating doing much of the work in 3DSmax. The last time I had a carefull look at Poser was with version 4, and even then I didn't analyze it in total depth. Now after 2 weeks of learning Poser6 I am impressed at how much one can do with each figure. There is so much room for customization here! This potential client of mine, also needs the figures to interact, but I see Poser6 can also handle even speach (with included phonems) wow! At this point, and before I continue I'm starting to suspect that one may just be able to do everything (create the figure, customize it in any way, animating it, etc) in Poser6. Note I said "be able to", I think the most important question would be (and remains): Is it worth it? I mean to say, in my opinion "to be worth it", it means that every single task can be performed with as much ease (if not easier) in Poser as it can be performed in any of the high-end 3D programs I mentioned above. It is understood that one has had the time to become proficient in both alternatives to have a fair comparisson. I hope I was clear enough, but should more info or a clarification for anything be needed just let me know Thanks in advance for your time guys/gals :) JDL