Not having an artistic job, I find myself more limited by time than creative impulses. The one dampener to my creative juices are those long days at work that leave one too energetically wasted to be creative. One of the things that's nice about Poser is that an image can be quickly laid out, things moved around, camera angles changed, and so on. This leads to a much more organic process where elements of the work can be drastically altered without starting from scratch. I've found working in Poser this way, without very hard images in my head, is creatively liberating. The images grow on the screen instead of my trying to force Poser to emulate what's in my imagination because the latter is more difficult to do based on the limitations of Poser, the content I have, and my ability to fully use Poser. I don't think SamTherapy is experiencing anything that other artists haven't in their careers--the creative doldrums. It's not as if he isn't being creative, he's just found other outlets to perform. There's nothing wrong with putting one creative endeavor aside for another. Eventually, that creative avenue will seem to grow stale and Poser will still be waiting there to be used again. "That said, I'm really pissed off because what I have in my head should be coming out visually but it seems to be the same old same old." Without trying to be a smartass, this reminds me of the old Henny Youngman joke, "The patient says 'Doctor, it hurts when I do this.' The Doctor responds, 'Then don't do that!'" My immediate gut response when I read the above comment was, "Then, do something different." Work in an unfamiliar genre. Enter a contest with rules that constrain what's wanted. Sometimes, restrictions force a person to exercise their creativity in different ways. Some of my favorite images came from contests that forced me to think of a unique way of satisfying the contest requirements because the result wasn't typical of something I'd do if left to my own impulses.

My visual indexes of Poser content are at http://www.sharecg.com/pf/rgagnon