Poser allows you to "pose" a figure in any position you please. For example, if you want a hand on a nose, you can select the hand and drag it to the nose. However, Poser comes with sets of pre-defined poses that can be useful as starting points for some poses you have in mind.

You have complete control over color and lighting, and you can also animate a figure. Actual movement was not a concern with our book.

Once you are happy with a scene, you can save it as a bitmap.

A solid color background makes it easy to extract Micheal from the background and paste him into the house scene. See the Adobe Photoshop 5 panel for more on this.