Quote - It's really funny to think that Poser users might treat D/S users the some way that Maya and Max users treat Poser users.

Really, the irony is mind boggling.  The whipped become the whippers.

A bunch of little fish pretending to be big fish because some smaller fish have moved into the pond.

 

Uh, actually, I was fully prepared to pay the list price for 3ds Max 9.  I tried the full demo for several weeks, and compared it against Poser 6, and honestly Max is not nearly as approachable at presenting and posing human figure art.  Considering I've spent about $8k on hardware and licenses for this stuff in the past three months, I would not have batted an eye at another $700 for a student license for 3ds Max if I had found it to be anywhere near as appropriate to general-purpose human figure art as Poser or D|S are.
http://www.turbosquid.com/Search/Index.cfm/FuseAction/ProcessSmartSearch/intCategory/9313
Maybe Turbosquid isn't the most comprehensive vendor in the world, but I don't see any large collection of rigged 3d human figures with wide selections of textures and morphs built in, not like on the Poser side.

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