I find the whole brand loyalty thing a bit odd. Personally, I'll use whatever I can. I'll throw everything I've got at the screen if it get's me the image I'm looking for. Some people actually look down on postwork, like it's a bad thing. Hell, even the term 'post-work' itself is an odd one. It's all artwork, It's just a matter of doing what it takes to get the art out of your head and onto the screen. By hook or by crook. Posers just a tool and simply learning how a tool works does not make good artwork. Composition, lighting, colour, drama, these things make good artwork. It's not that some images "look Poser" per-se, it's just that some images have been rendered without any thought to traditional knowledge of what makes good art (like Composition). I think some people frown upon 'Poserish' artwork, not because it was produced with Poser, but because a lot of images look like the artist has simply opened Poser up and relied on the software to do all the work for them. If you're artwork suffers because it "looks Poser" chances are you don't need to flip though the manual or find another light tutorial, chances are you need to get your butt to a public art gallery, look at some oil paintings, do some research on art in the library, and put a pencil in your hand, Sketch some ideas. You don't need to be great with a pencil, just sketch some crude compositional sketches, then think about opening the software to start an image. When I look at other peoples images I'm not bothered if it was created in Poser, or Painter, or Photoshop, or Carrara, or Bryce (apart from technical artistic curiosity of course). I'm only really concerned whether their image is good art, powerfull art, something that grabs my interest. It's all about producing good artwork. It doesn't matter how you get there or what tool you use.

Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing?