Have you ever need a larger population of manikins for a scene?
I downloaded DAZ Studio 4.7 Pro Beta which is free at the moment.
It is very much like Poser and has some very sophisticated capabilities for a free offering.
Of course, a lot of it is a teaser, but what you get is fully functional.
What I found useful is the ability to make some pretty realistic manikins with expressions and gestures with a relatively intelligent interface.
You can pose them and morph them; dress them and manage them in countless ways.
And the great thing is, you can export them to an object file format and control how it scales and how how many features it creates in an intelligent manner!
Once you bring this into Creo, you have to save out each facet feature you want to assign a different color to. You re-assemble your object in an assembly all using the default origin. Now you have a color assigned to what DAZ 3D considers unique surfaces.
No texture mapping or color assignments come across in .obj files... and Creo won't let you do anything with facet files other than assign an overall color 
But, you can open the file, be it a person or a full scene, and you can save out many copies to be re-assembled. I included the child's head as a sample.
I included the model as it came in from the .obj format (childs_head.prt) and I turned off the cornea (needs to be translucent).
You can save this model as a .wrl (VRML) file and your new color assignment will remain, even if you import this as a new .prt file. Unfortunately, transparency won't and that is why the cornea is hidden.
Anyway, if you've been searching for a nice manikin generation tool, this might not be th eonly one, but it is an option and for now, it's free.
If you have another candidate tool to do this or some tips for preserving colors, or even texture maps with the import, that would be excellent!
Edit: due to my serious lack of artistry to create flesh tones on the fly, please find attached a color pallete based on this swatch:
http://m9.i.pbase.com/o2/50/88850/1/105147199.kNJ7Zwz1.Bruce_Beard_Skin_Color_Chart.jpg