I started to look at DAZ3D.. I have also played around with poser .. but generally I hang out over at Colonial Fleets sister site ..
http://www.3dgladiators.com/ where I am moderator .. one of our members .. of both sites does a lot of animations
Fretslayer .. drop in and have a look see .. can us some more DAZ3d users
but I mainly use Lightwave8.3 for modelling