Wow, Spanki, fantastic image! I agree with your view completely. Both approaches have their own challenges. You can either paint over Poser's defects or work around them. Some people are better at one than the other and some prefer one over the other. I'm sure some people can't wait to get out of Poser so they can work their bitmap magic on a render. Others are just as happy spending that time with magnets and morphs to get the result they want. Different strokes.

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