I wouldn't call the news earthshattering, but it's interesting. Maybe Cararra will get dropped down to a price I'm willing to pay when I'm finally ready to try my hand at modeling. Maybe we'll someday we'll see posing, scenery, and modeling all in one inexpensive package.

As much as DAZ may be expanding their own market, there is a side benefit to expanding the Poser market. Eventually, a DAZStudio user will want to buy Poser for the extra features. From a content selling standpoint, it's somewhat moot which market the figures are for and 99.9% of the content will install into the Poser runtime directories. From an art standpoint, I couldn't care less which products people prefer to use--it starts to sound like the insults high-end software users toss to low-end software users or 2D painting program users vs. 3D users or true media painters vs. digital media painters. The tools don't matter as much as the talent behind them.

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