Quote - IMO, the biggest drawback to Poser is not even the lousy render engine.  It is the lack of actual artistic skill needed to make a render.  If you don't know basic composition, lighting, and HUMAN ANATOMY how can you presume to artistically portray the human figure?  And, then there is the lack of realisation that skin, or anything else, for that matter has channels.  A 4048x4048 color .jpg just doesn't do justice to the actual nuances in skin.  People have fun with Poser.  It is inexpensive.  Good.  But no one has to really take the time to learn about edgeloops, or s curves, or diffusion channels, and, most folks don't bother. 

This is like saying that no-one can sing unless they understand the physics of sound. Edgeloops do not art make. Neither, in fact, does human anatomy. Have a look at Modigliani sometime. Neither, in fact, does realism. Look at 1001 artists who painted according to their inner vision, not what the camera saw.