The fact is, if the end result is art... it doesn't really matter how you made it. Is a photographer any less of an artist because he or she didn't build the camera by pounding the metal used in the parts, creating the plastic used in it, grinding the lens and making the film? What about the model? Unless it's his child, he didn't make them... Is a painter any less of an artist because he didn't find the raw materials, grind them down and mix them to create his own paints? Or cut down the wood and process it to make his own paper? Or find the animal and pluck the hairs and make his own brush? Is a sculpture any less of an artist because he didn't create the stone? Make the chisel? Is an architect any less of an artist because someone else actually builds his idea? What it boils down to is something similiar to a line in the movie Jurasic Park - Life finds a way. Guess what... Art finds a way. It will find an outlet anyway it can, with whatever tools are on hand. Sometimes it's clay, sometimes paint, sometimes pen, sometimes 3DMAX and sometimes... yes... even Poser.