Who said this is a "hobby"? I run an illustration business. I make illustrations for magazines, multimedia, printers, and so on. I've previously only used 3d Studio Max, Illustrator and such -- and most of the time I've just drawn my work by hand and then I've scanned it in. A couple of weeks ago I discovered Poser and saw the benefits of it in my illustration business. You use a lot of stock people in illustrations. I can easily pose and draw human character which I can import into my illustrations. And I've had in mind to upgrade my 3d Studio Max for ages now, but decided to migrate to Maya as it appears to be a better program. Except, someone could have mentioned the mouse thing. I could have bought that at the same time. Now I've got to go downtown again, and buy a mouse. LOL