Yep, that's the bottom line for anything presented. As far as the second part, I'm not very familiar with Posers Toon Shader so I don't know how flexible it is. I use Poser Pro Pack and import my animations into Lightwave for rendering. Lightwave has a wide number of options for drawing (or not drawing) lines and colors etc. At a personal level I'm much more of a director/story-teller than an "artist." Therefore the extreme artistic controls that are important to some people aren't as important to me. I can tell my stories just as well with Dork or Posette (or the many character packages that are already available for Poser) as I could with a personally designed custom characters - like you see so many Lightwavers or Maya artists take pride in having modelled themselves. I respect and admire that ability but it isn't as important for me personally to tell my stories. Different people enjoy (and take pride in) different aspects of the process. I'd rather use Posette and create original custom music - the thought of using someone else's music is extremely unsatisfying. Other's would rather use a canned sound track but a completely original character. To each his own! ;-)

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