Quote - bonestructure, Model your own, if you took all that time to model your pictures to look as good as they do, don't ruin it by useing poser.  Remember this; once you model your own character it is your to use when ever and how ever you want.

Why don't yopu do your own mathematical modelling long hand, instead of using Maya and 3D studio to help you??? Can you explain the math and the topology that goes behind the nurbs and other surfaces you are making in the modelling programs?  Lets start with the basics... Can you take an implicit linear equation and tell me the slope of the line you're modelling? Can you explain the differences between different types of nurbs? Do you know what a clothoid is? Do you know how to apply a catenary sag to a rope so if you need to use it in a model it looks very realistic? Can you model anything besides freeform characters? If you needed to build an organic model to exact specifications to be used in real life applications, could you? How ae your rapid modelling skills? Are you getting anywhere near to par of being able to make the time and the budget allocated for something? Can you handle different levels of detail and know when to apply them? .... I'm sure there are plenty of things that someone else knows, that you don't...

You're complaining about people using assistance to model characters, and you too are heavily relaying on assistance, just of a little different type.  Learn to draw freehand and make claymation characters and varuious other types of sculpture, and do your own math...  Oh, and build your own computer too... See the slippery slope you're on?

To take your line of thinking little farther to make the error in your thinking little more obvious here's another analogy, perhaps people whom can't build a car shouldn't be driving one. I can build a house, and you can't, so perhaps you shouldn't have the privilege of living in a house... .....eh.... :m_thumbd:  quit yer whining.  Here's an idea, take some time away from modelling characters, and use it to improve your own character.
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