Realistic 3D human figures for renderings
My company includes designers who use FormZ and 3D Studio Max. I don't recall where they downloaded the 3D humans they use, but they are complex meshes with even more complex texture maps. They are, however, very realistic. As with many such third-party products, these are not made native for Vectorworks. I can, however, open the native files in either 3DS or FormZ (which I also use) and export them as .obj files to VW. This format conserves the texture maps and even loads them into Vectorworks
You don't have to pay people to animate static figures unless you can't find what you need within the animation software or from vendors who provide prebaked content for such.
Here's an animation from one of my projects. Note that you can see people moving and walking around on each floor during the exterior shots, they are the same people you see in the interior shots. The only rigging necessary is setting walk paths for people who walk, the character definition takes care of the
