seattletim opened this issue on Jul 29, 2006 · 182 posts
JOELGLAINE posted Wed, 02 August 2006 at 9:09 AM
Poser is a 'hobbyist' application. Maturity need not apply to inexperience with high end applications. If someone with the experience and $1500 dollars to use Maya and Studio Max, More power to them.
Poser is an easy introduction into the world of CGI. It is easy to use and relatively cheap. That doesn't mean that people that use it, or buy poser figures are immature. As far as it goes, all American markets are ruled by people with more money than common sense.
That doesn't mean that Poser users thumb their noses at quality. When I get something, I want it to work as stated-- Not needing loads of fixes, and work-arounds!
DAZ is like one of those big art-supply stores with all sort of thingies of dubious nature, that may appeal to a very narrow market, as well as very focused mass-market gimmicks to draw in more customers. However if their figures were sub-standard---NO ONE would use them, except for their fans.
That being said--M3 and V3 have become the standard figures for a reason. They work as promised. You don't have to like it, I don't have to like it, but there it is. The P6 figures have more going wrong than right in comparison to them. THAT is the nature of what's being discussed!
The G2 figures are not in a vacuum. Like new car models, they HAVE to compete in the market-place against everyone else's models. The ones that do NOT break down more, usualy get more people to buy them.
Personally, I wanted the G2 figures to have kicked butt, just to give DAZ a run for the money. Competition is good for the market, and overall marketplace of 3D CG goodies.
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