I use Daz3D for all my renders and animations. I generally use models other artists have created and pose them in scenes, though I do make minor adjustments to everything. Like combining two models to make someone unique or adding different colors / patterns to clothing to make them different.
Daz3D can be really complicated. It's taken me a few hundreds hours just to get the basics down. Avalon is very much practice for me while I figure it all out. But it's turning out to be a lot of fun too!
