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I use the software method, as you call it, because I have no innate drawing ability. There are indeed limitations to lower end 3D programs like DAZ Studio and Poser. If you do a lot of nudes, the bending and musculature is stiff and fake-looking. Poses and expressions are often stiff and fake-looking. Faces aren't asymmetrical, like real people. Then there's the Uncanny Valley thing. It can take some time to learn how to work with, or around, those limitations as well as a few others.
If someone wants absolute realism in cover images but can't draw, their choices are either hiring an artist (might be out of the price range of some) or buying stock photos and dealing with limitations that come with them.
I've seen images combining renders and illustration techniques that don't look awful at all. But I admit I've seen a few covers using 3D characters that were pretty bad...I remember one that had people with no hair.
wraylewis, I got your message and will respond a little later.
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