poser is all well and good but you wouldn't expect someone to race a pushbike in a formula one race would you. sorry folks but the truth is poser can't do more than a gnats bollock of what the high end apps do. you may get a good render after days of work a render that may even come up to par with an high end app. the difference would be the high end app would come up with it faster. and whilst most who use high end apps may not not be good modelers that wouldn't come in to it. they wouldn't get the job either or hold on to it if they sucked. to the person who said if you have an high end app you stole it.  i have max 8 bought and paid for by my family as a present. i would have prefered an old sports car but its what they got me. i suspect if what you say is only partially true then most of the poser programs people are using are also warez.. (and no, just because i have max doesn't mean i can model well, i can't lol.) i would presume people who use wares don't just use high end wares. i would also presume that a lot of what people use in poser is also warez if what you say is true. and think of this. maya or max...ex thousands of  dollars ......50 gigs of poser stuff..including the freestuff.....three times as much. by your reckoning the people that have spent over 4000 dollars on poser goodies really haven't, theyre all warez users. basically you're calling all those who use high end programs in rendo thieves.

any way, back to the thread.....it was and is wrong of anyone to ridicule a prospective employee. that shows their shallowness. it's als; wrong to think that because you use poser you should be automatically qualified for a job in cg. and whilst you may be good or think you're good, you're chances of getting an industry standard job without any knowledge of industry standard tools is almost zilch. it like applying for a job as an art restorer with a resume that has the only skills you have listed as ...i'm an experienced etch-a-sketcher.  there are too many people out thier who have usee and learned maya, max and other high end apps in college to warrent a cg employer picking someopne who just uses pose. and btw. you can get an educational version of the high end apps for a fraction of the cost. many also go into cg from college with a little app experience and get in house training as to that places workflow. to teach that workflow to a poser user who has no knowledge to start with would not only be unviable financially ,it would also be a time waster.

 

of course they're biased against poser would you be any different in there place? jmo

billy