Quote - Silke - don't let em get to you. :)

It just does. I can't help it. :)
It stems from having been on both ends of the publishing industry, so I know how such comments hurt a writer, as well as the publisher. So yeah, I get a bit obsessive about it lol.
It's just not needed, just like we don't need the "Oh... Poser..." rolls eyes type comments from other members of the 3D community.

Mind you, I've once seen an animation on a "Maya Showcase"... and it was done in... Poser lol. It was Victoria and it was obvious. They might have animated it in Maya, but they didn't create the model. So where is the difference? (Wish I could find the link now but this was probably 2 years ago.)
I also know a lot of the cover artists work very hard on those covers. I used to do some myself, but we used to hire painters more than anything.
The "Dead Doll" look is a dead give-away. And it's not so very hard to fix that, even if you have to postwork it. What gave the cover away immediately was the use of the 3Dream hair. It's so overused that it immediately screams "POSER!" whenever you see it.

Silke