Dontcha just love these threads about Poser's future (grin) Poser has a future, of some kind. Since Daz Studio will incorporate a lot of what Poser is into itself, and since CL hasn't bit the dust yet, I think it'll go on for a few more years. Look at the number of memebers here, and I think more than half use Poser at some level. Many just use Poser to pose models and import them into other applications, but the need for this product is still here. Is P5 state of the art? No way, but it mostly works. Poser is still the only tool available for figure manipulation and posing in it's price range. Even if CL should fail, I think someone would buy the Poser licenses and code and continue it on (as has happened in the past). Should you spend time and money on learning more about it? Well, I'd avoid buying too much training, unless it's a specialized something you really need to learn fast. There's a lot of good tutorials available for Poser, all versions, for free. There's always the nice folks here who'll try to answer any questions you have. Sometimes even creating a tutorial for a specific request. As for spending time... Well, anything you learn about Poser will help with any other 3D product at the theory level. Again, learn according to your specific need. I wanted to learn how to model and conform cloths. A lot of hours went into me education to do that. It was worth it to me, because I was able to do things I hadn't been able to do before, and I was finally able to give a little back to the community here that's given me so much. So sure, Poser has a future. What it'll be is anyone's guess.