Why is Poser getting such a bad rap? Sturgeon's Law holds everywhere. 90% of ALL CGI is crap -- 90% of all art, traditional or computer, is crap. The problem Poser has, is their 90% is big, growing bigger, and slopping all over the place. Used to be 3ds MAX or MAYA functioned a bit like an exclusive social club. You had to pony up the cash for the software and the time to learn it to get in. So the galleries inside were still 90% crap, but at least you could find the jewels thrown in among the dross. Enter Poser. Fill every available gallery and other outlet to bursting. Hundreds of new images, if not thousands, posted daily. You can't wade through that kind of crap in an afternoon. It takes so much more effort to find that 10% -- made in any program or combination thereof -- because there is so much MORE in toto. So no wonder the MAX people are upset. Heck...the old-time Poser users are upset; used to be, when you posted to a gallery you got noticed. Now, a place like Rendo, you can't post fast enough to see your own image at the top of the gallery page! Turn around, and it is buried twenty deep. And this is regardless of quality or lack thereof. Hey, a lot of stuff in the gallery is pretty decent. Does it make me feel any better to have the result of my labors vanish under twenty better images? Would we feel any better here in the heart of the Poserverse if the MAYA users struck back and filled our galleries with pictures of chess pieces on polished stone tables? No solution. No advice. No value judgements. Just an effort to understand why the emotions run so high.