i have a master's degree in fine and applied art from u.c. berkeley. not really worth much in the real world, though. at 16 some of my oils were featured in a show at mc cormick place in chicago....prolly my art life's biggest kudo. i spent 2 summers working at disney, back in the day when doing animations were hand drawn frame by frame and one could spend months on changing a wee bit of movement to a finger to make it appear to "move". at one point i worked for a major design firm in chicago...but, alas, like disney, i was just another little cog in a big wheel. a friend pointed me to poser when i finally broke out on my own and started a little graphic/web design business. he sold me poser 1 when he got poser 2. however, i have broken away from poser in a large degree because i just can't get it to portray what is really in my head... by the time i tweak, search, and render, my visualization and inspiration has rolled up and died on me.