In my version of Webster, here's the definition of "hobby", under which falls "hobbyist": "A subject or activity pursued for pleasure rather than for payment." At the moment, I fall under that category. It is true that "hobbyist" can be used perjuratively. It is always amazing how some people can get overly hung up on how art is created rather than what the final result is. Poser is a tool. 3dsMax is a tool. Maya is a tool. A pencil is a tool. A good artist can, with practice training, excel at any of these tools. A bad artist, with no real vision or understanding of composition, will still produce crap. The bad artist may create glossily rendered crap with a high end graphics program, but it's still junk.

My visual indexes of Poser content are at http://www.sharecg.com/pf/rgagnon