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..

VERDICT: New posing, animation and lip sync capabilities, but Poser 7’s main strengths remain its bundled content and low price.

Creating believable 3D scenes is a major challenge, but to bring them fully to life you really need people to populate them...