I saw it demonstrated at the now defunct 3D Animation Conference at the Santa Clara Convention Center in 1999 and was hooked immediately. I tried to convince my company's graphics dept. to buy some copies but some nitwit consultant trainer they were using said it had a very steep learning curve. So I went out and bought Poser 4 myself. I'm disappointed in the inferior speed of Poser 5 on the Macintosh platform, as the hair room is unusable, even on my dual processor G5. But I'm a die-hard fan. And also still use Metacreations Infini-D all the time. Oh yeah, the graphics dept is eating crow when they see what I'm doing with Poser now.