Quote - I just feel like going and kick the guy in the nuts for being such a pompous ass...

That might make you feel better, but I can guarentee you it won't improve your artwork one little bit. Rather than kicking him in the nuts, you should buy the guy a beer and ask him to crit more of your work in more detail. You see, he knows what he is talking about and he was offering you some very valuable pointers, but in your indignation you missed them completely.

The most important point he makes is this one: "It has nothing of the artist's "fingerprints" on it". That, right there is what is wrong with most Poser art and it is why the Max and Maya crowd on the one hand and the traditional graphics folk on the other all say that Poser isn't really art.

The most important ingredient in any artwork is the piece of the artist himself/herself which remains in that artwork when it is finished. Art is only art because of the 'fingerprints' of the artist evident in it. The simpler the tool used to make the artwork, the greater versatility and subtlety is possible with it*. And more of the person wielding the tools gets into the work. Spontaneous decisions can be made if the tools are direct and simple, a brush, a pencil, a lump of clay, and it's why something hand-drawn or hand-made is so persuasive.

*Now some might argue that more versatility and subtlety is possible with a tool like Poser than with a tool like, say, a pencil - because it gives you more 'options'. The trouble is that Poser (or 3D rendering in general) is so hugely technically complex that very few of us can ever hope to get beyond a very basic grasp of what the various buttons do. We'll never master it in the way a good pencil artist has mastered his/her pencil. On top of that, most pencil artists started young, most Poser artists discovered it only recently.

In reality, while making a picture with Poser we have to expend a lot of energy 'taming the beast', grappling with the complex technical aspects and we don't get very much opportunity to instill something of ourselves into the work, it's even easy to forget that that was actually the point of the whole exercise. Poser is really not the ideal medium for self expression because it is so damn cumbersome, and unless you are skilled enough to really impose your will on it, there's a sameness about the images it produces.

As your critic friend said, the Max/MAya people who make everything themselves have more opportunity to leave their marks on the work, but the downside to that is that there's a huge mountain of additional technical skills needed to pull it off.

I really think you should re-read his comments. His criticism was that he couldn't see enough of you (as an artist) evident in the image. I haven't looked at the image, I don't need to to know that his comment applies to a lot of Poser art.