Now this sounds interesting. Poser's biggest limitation is its inability to create scenes in which to host its figures. Meanwhile many professional 3D apps are great at creating the scenes but creating the figures to populate them is a nightmare. With e-frontier’s announcement of the launch of Poser Pro scheduled for Fall 2007 here's a potential solution to both problems..

Highlights of the new release are set to include:

1. Better Integration with Professional Environments

Directly host Poser scenes including geometry, textures, animation data, and more in the following applications:
Autodesk 3D Studio Max Windows
Autodesk Maya Mac and Windows
Newtek's Lightwave Mac and Windows
Maxon's Cinema 4D Mac and Windows

2. Enhanced Path to Photoshop CS3 Extended

Output to COLLADA format which can then be loaded directly into Photoshop CS3 Extended as a 3D objects.

3. Network Rendering & 64-bit Support
Get the most out of your hardware and leverage your network to render massive scenes and lengthy animations using the network render queue to distribute render jobs across all your of your networked machines and with background rendering capabilities you can now keep working while you render.