Hi, i am a poser and character studio noob but i would like to know if you guys think this is possible.

I am looking to creating dancing characters and then sillouette them with an alpha channel to use as general stock footage for clients (like the ipod adverts). I originally had the idea of film live dancers in front of a green screen but then this turned out to be too expensive (dancers, studio, lighting etc).

So this is where i came up with the idea of using artifical characters. But due to having little or no experience of programs such as poser or daz i wasn't sure of the extent to which i could make these characters dancing look life like enough to pass as human when silloutted.

So i have experimented with this a little with mixed results using poser. I simply imported a motion capture file and then rendered the animation and took it into after effects and applied the sillouette and it could quite easily pass as a real human to the untrained eye. However its not quite there. And i this is where i need your advice.....

Is it possible to apply clothes and hair to a male or female character and get these items to move and flow dynamically as the character animates?

How time consuming would this be to do and is it very intensive computational task for lets say a 30 second animation?

What would be the best way to go about this for a newbie such as myself? Is poser the right package for this task do you think?