I think the world is big enough to accommodate both realistic characters and stylized characters (note I don’t use the word toon). The problem that I’m raising is that Poser seems, to a large extent, to ignore the idea of a diverse 3D world and is producing a program that is exclusively aimed at manufacturing more and more realistic characters (that have a lot of time and effort spent on them). I never used the word toon as this to me implies that it’s bias towards entertaining kids. Pixar has never produced animations exclusively for kids. In fact 3D animations made exclusively for kids I find less inspiring or unwatchable e.g. Robots. The bottom line is if you want to animate and exaggerate the movement of your characters it can’t be done in Poser as realistic characters just plain and simply don’t look right. I’ve found some hand drawn animations to be very moving, and I’ve even been moved by Ice Age’s highly stylised characters, but I have never been moved by a highly realistic 3D character. I was moved by Gollum (styled) and I was moved by Harry Potter’s Dobby (styled) Please e-frontier just balance out the Poser universe a bit – less squeaky clean bland popular culture characters and more Faggins and Shreks characters – and make them work properly (fully articulated and expressive).

 

Oh, and you’ll never eliminate actors as they would be the artist necessary to bring alive any 3D character