I found it ironic, after all these years of certain "high end" software users looking down their noses at Poser, that the idea of pre-fabricated character creation has come full circle.  One of the largest developers of professional 3D software, Autodesk, recently launched a cloud-based application that allows anyone, from hobbyists to studios, to instantly create and customize pre-fabricated, generic characters.  It's very similar, in basic principal, to older versions of Poser or Daz Studio, but even more simplistic.

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/02/autodesk-introduces-online-character-generator/

Character Generator, as they call it, allows you to instantly create, and customize a canned character's features, textures, etc., then export, with rigging, to Maya, 3dsMax, or Unity game engine.  It's actually far more generic than Poser or Daz, and clearly only intended for secondary characters.

Next time you see some Maya or Max user discredit the use of Poser, you can point to this, and have a good laugh.

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Tools :  3dsmax 2015, Daz Studio 4.6, PoserPro 2012, Blender v2.74

System: Pentium QuadCore i7, under Win 8, GeForce GTX 780 / 2GB GPU.