Poser to the end user is basically the electronic version of studio photography. It requires that the photographer/artist pose the model(s), set the lighting, select locations or sets, and any props there might be. The biggest difference though is that unlike photography, images don't have to follow the laws of nature and physics.

Art is filled with all sorts of disciplines and very few artists are talented at all things. It's like sports. Just because Michael Jordan is good at basketball did not make him a great baseball player. Even on the same team, there are those that specialize in hoop shots and those that dribble well (the ball, hehe) and pass. Art is no different. Modeling, photography, texturing, painting, sculpting are all sides of the art umbrella. If one is talented in two or three, all the power to them, but many are not. Fortunately in the real world, this is understood and accepted. No commercial studio has a single person doing everything. They do what their speciality is. In animation, you don't see the character artists coloring the characters, or doing background matte paintings. On a film set, you don't see the director building the sets with his own two hands. The same holds true here.

Perhaps in essence it's a collaborative effort, ghost modeling if you will, but in the end, the render is as artistic as it is conceived to be. I think the original art that started this thread, is very artistic, as I do many that use Poser. Some people just don't understand that art is a very large umbrella.

I've been told many times that my art is crap because I didn't model everything, but whether my art is crap or not has nothing to do with that. :) If the end viewer sees it that way, than it is. Hopefully they don't. But what it's not about is how much work went into it, or how it was built.

ShadowWind