Daz/aniMate2/Vue workflow

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Hello!

I was an amateur user of Poser/Vue years ago, but then I got sidetracked and stopped animating all together for a while to make movies with humans. I'm looking to get back in now, but I'm reluctant to run out and buy a ton of new software without a good idea of how well my idea of a workflow will work in practice.

From what I've gathered from reading the forums and playing with the trial version of Vue 2014, a good animation workflow would be Daz Studio with AniMate -> Export Collada file -> Tweak and render in Vue. I've looked for examples of this workflow put into practice, but I haven't found too many and the ones I did occasionally suffered from animation glitches and poke throughs (some of which being unavoidable).

Has anyone had much experience with regularly using this animation workflow? Have you been happy with the results? If not, what would you recommend I try out instead?

Thanks!