Poser is the paint-by-numbers of the 3d art world. Bryce is equally ridiculed. I find the bias easy to understand - Poser's bias is because of the generic art with the generic meshes it generates, and Bryce because of the chrome, water, and chequerboard images that flooded galleries in early days. The bravest man I have seen in quite a while is someone with the nick DirtySkillet at CGTalk; he stubbornly posts his Bryce stuff there. In the end it boils down to one thing: Whatever gives you pleasure to make your images should suffice; make stuff for yourself, and not for the oooh and aaaaah effects of others - either it's max or poser or maya or wings. If you did that, the bias of others wouldnt matter so much ~S