Why do so many people working with higher end apps find it so difficult to comprehend that Poser and D/S are used by a wide variety of users with very differing levels of skill and intent. The apps are cheap (relatively) which means that just about anyone with enough money to have a good weekend on the town can instead afford to buy into a 3d hobby and make pictures - and have some fun. At the same time there are many using Poser who do model and tweak meshes, create unique textures and spend long hours creating incredibly detailed and accomplished images with impressive narratives.
This pervading attitude that Poser=crap says to me one thing only - that those who ascribe to that view are more concerned with disrespecting people using a different set of tools rather than having the confidence to fully appraise their own accomplishments (or lack of) with their own toolsets. This IMO is a lazy and immature approach, indicative of creative insecurity and certainly won't make anyone more accomplished in their chosen field of study.
While I find many of the original poster's points of advice generally valid and useful the tone and overiding sentiment is, I'm sure to many, patronising and derogatory.
Is it so hard to accept that some just want to enjoy using Poser as a hobby?
Is it so hard to accept that others can use the same app to create professional and stunning visual work?
Why this need to tell others what to do?

I can understand all kinds of frustrations, but surely those that do everything from modelling to rendering can judge their work on those merits without having to resort to disrespecting Poser users.

 

PoserPro2014(Sr4), Win7 x64, display units set to inches.

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