The reason such programs like Bryce and Poser are on the market is precisely because they offer the 3D artist a simple way of creating complicated visions. All good 3D artists can create their own landscapes and people populated scenes but at a cost of time. These programs offer a quick and painless solution to this dilemma. Poser has always been known to afford the 3D artist a “quick” solution to their “population” problem. And consequently, although its original creator did not intend it, Bryce became the quick answer to the instant landscape problem (for artists needing quick landscapes).

How long would it take a 3D artist to come up with different landscapes or people personalities if that artist had to create the prop from scratch and it wasn’t the central theme of their art…days, weeks, months? That’s why these programs prospered. Tarregen, Bryce, Vue, Mojoworld and the countless others that have since surfaced. But so far Poser has been the only human figure generator that has come to the forefront to answer that particular need.

There have been and still are many sites that offer extensive additional’s including props and tutorials and of much better quality than Renderosity can afford their Poser world clientele. You just have to seek them out.

Poser, all by itself can only offer you figures. They can be positioned and to the glee of some talented and resourceful artists they can be properly and extensively clothed and textured. It takes a lot of time to concentrate on a figure when you want certain wrinkles and pores to show in the final rendition. Not to mention that you have painstakingly taken the time to clothed them in fine lace, leather and silk and make it show as “real” and often that is not the intent of the artist. The artist may have a “greater” vision than simply concentrating on the figure.

Think of it, a program that offers nothing but human figures and a simple way of dressing them (as someone mentions above…a virtual doll), how long would such a program last on its own? Absolutely no way! So, they incorporated ways of extending this product to encompass other programs that would allow this program more far reaching use and what other way than incorporate a mass figure making program with a mass landscape making program allowing their figures to hover over some final destiny? And there you have the alliance, a need to perpetuate your product. And it has been done through smart marketing. I don’t have to tell you what other outside programs benefit from this aggregation of the resources.

Therefore it took Renderosity to put all of these necessary programs together under one roof to afford the Poser people a way of extending their program onto others. Thereafter, all other programs became fare ground for Poser. There’s more but we shall not go there for Renderosity does not really view most of their subscribers as artists to begin with. They simply offer you the platform…a gallery of your own that can be viewed by all. They stroke your ego as an artist and profit from there.

This is not to say that there are many fine artists who reside here. But this site has put their homework together except where it counts and that is in properly designing the site.

I will cut this short from its presently lacking site design but belief me when I say that they are only interested in their bottom line and not what you as a member feel.