Poser is only used to "pose" stock models? Well, yes, but with a BIG red flag. The stock models can be changed ad nauseum. You can take a stock model, tweak a dial or two and have an entirely different looking figure on your screen than what you started out with. With Poser 5 you have as much power to tweak or radically change the face as you do the body. You from a stock model make a gaunt sixty year old man, a strapping young lad of thirteen, or even a voluptuous woman in her mid twenties. So the term "stock model" is tenuous indeed. 2. If I wish to make skins, clothing, hair, and landscapes, I need other programs/expertise? You probably have to make the original meshes in other program. I.e. you must create an object in a dedicated mesh builder. However, once the object is made you can use it with ease in Poser. You can change it's appearence, it's fabric, it's characteristics. In Poser 5 you have full control of the material and the mesh. Hair can be eaily changed in Poser. What you need to create is the thing that the hair grows from in other programs. And there's no real need to, since it already exists in the original package and can be applied to all figures with ease, 3. Are there any animation elements to Poser? All versions of Poser is heavily animation-oriented.

Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL

Subject: why Poser?