it is very interesting to see where this topic gone since I started it almost 4 months ago and it was just a complaint about the amount of bad poser pictures in the holyday contest and it was never intended to be about the question "Poser, yes or no?" if you have fun with it than enjoy yourself. I have a story about my recent experience with Poser, two weeks ago we got at work a project about sumo wrestlers and my creative manager decided to use a poser figure that he bought for about 18 bucks even though I told him that I can model a very good model of my own in cinema4d he insisted that we use the poser figure (in my opinion he is an idiot that dont know a thing about 3d) so eventually after a lot of arguments I decided to let go and try to do it in poser and now after I tried it for animation I have to say that it is probably the worst animation software I have ever seen (and I have seen a lot) and eventually we used interposer in cinema4d but still its also a dificult way to animate. Maybe some of you may say that poser is not animation software and it is not intended for complex animation and this is what I think, so if you think so please call the stupid creative manager and tell him about it cause he doesnt listen to me and he wants to continue the work with poser.