...frankly, I can call myself anything I want. Some artist strung miles of cloth across the countryside and called it art. He said it was art, so it was art. It was enough of Art to be in Time and Newsweek. Was it good art? That's for each person to decide. If I do a naked dork on a black background with the default texture and lights, in the default pose, and print it - then it's art. I made a decision on what placement, lights, texture, and pose to use. Admittedly it wasn't anything creative, but I can still call it art, and myself an artist. Poser is no different from any other tool. A poser picture with only canned poses, textures, lighting, and figures is no different from a collage of photographs. It's the choices we make that give it the artistic feel. Originality? Define it for me. Are old master paintings of still lifes original? Not really. They're all bowls of fruit using a single media (oil usually). Boring! But beautiful. Now, as to quality. A single canned pose of a face with a texture and a single light can be beautiful. Some of the best art I've seen here has been face portraits of Posette or V2 with a free texture and a single light. Can a Poser render be beautiful. I think so. Review the gallery for the last week. You'll find dozens, many using only Poser and purchased or free products. Art is in the eye of the beholder, and an artist is anyone who calls him/herself one. This discussion surfaces every month or so. Go through the past threads for more discussion. After a while the "art" snobs get me down.