Attached Link: http://www.missdigitalworld.com/MDWContest/showpage/16

***"Is this that same contest that at least for me surfaced about a year ago?"*** First of all, I believe perhaps you're thinking of the "Miss Digital World" contest (see link). Secondly, people who build from scratch DO use Poser, for various reasons. The main one is probably Poser's relatively "easy to use" tools. Third... why is it so important that 3D artists model everything from scratch, when it's the end result that people see? I've NEVER got a satisfactory answer to that question from anyone. If it's "art" you care about, then realize this... 50 years from now, it's the ART (the final result, the fruit of your labor, the product of your vision) that people might still be looking at... and no one will care "HOW" you did it, or what your model's topology looked like, or how long it took you to rig the figure. It's all about what you DO with your models, and what you produce for the client/public. Get it?

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Tools :  3dsmax 2015, Daz Studio 4.6, PoserPro 2012, Blender v2.74

System: Pentium QuadCore i7, under Win 8, GeForce GTX 780 / 2GB GPU.