Quote - let me repeat myself : "is it impossible to break into any professional cg ranks at all using "poser" figures or content?  is the bias so strong, that no matter what quality the work, people only see the flaws?"  notice the "poser figures or content."  not,  "is poser limited."  this is about the bias against it, not the quality of work.  as i mentioned, i've generally seen significantly worse posing and expression at other cg sites, and i've rarely seen work as good as addy's worst.  i'm not saying poser isn't limited- i've used it for years and i know its limitations well. 

 

Perhaps, for this type of discussion we need to give the 'professional CG' little narrower definition?

As a standalone artist, probably. As a standalone artist, tool that you use is not nearly as important as your work.
As a 'production artist', first you'd have to find a place to work where they actually use poser. I think that's going to be hard to find, if it exists at all. It's not just Poser, but you will notice that most applications that specialize in just one or two things, especially in a somewhat pared down format from high end applications, are not being used very often.

It's same in my field of 3D, which is not in CG. As a director of my depatment, my concern in choosing applications and hiring people is much more complex then the merit of a single application or the capability of a single user. It is how an application or a hiree will fit in the big picture. I do run across nifty aps, for example, which I can not use, because they do only one thing out of 10 things that need doing, and even though great at that one thing, by the time I get the data ready for the next step, in a different ap, I lost all the savings in transitions.

Anyway, what I'm getting at, there are a lot more considerations in professional world, then just the merit of a single application or a single artist.

As for freelance artists, I've a tiny bit of freelancing myself and discovered that many times it's more dependent on how good your promotion and marketing skills are then how good you or your application is. As long as you can produce satisfying results in a timely manner.

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