This debate has been around for years. And back in the poser4 days I would agree with the opinon, but toaday its a diferent story, Poser has been used in MANY mainstream places. Its an excellant application for creating quick simple animations and imagery, In the right users hands its versatile and can create a whole realm of possibilities for a reasonable price.

Poser , as a rendering tool, is great, but thats what it is, It doesn't model, it doesnt create movie quality animation ( Im talking hollywood here). BUT it does allow somoene to learn the basics and tinker and create decent quality animations, and with post work, Excellant quality still renders. 

Why is is so often frowned upon, aloofness  and fear , thats why. Why use an application that only cost $250 dollars and can run on the average desktop to create , when you can use a $5000 application that requires high end systems and 30 man hours to create the same image? Those high end apps are the status symbols of those companies , look at us we use MAYA. etc. 

Poser has been breaking ground though, http://www.e-frontier.com/go/poser/stories shows the progress of Poser today and its capabilities. Is it the industry standard, NO! why. well would you want to be the one to say, hey can we scrap our 10 yerars of investment in this this $5000 dollar application , and buy a $250.00 app that does the same thing, OH BTW, we can lay off a few artists as well because we really wont need as many to do what we do anymore. So there is no way these high end artists will accept this application, because then it will soon be learned that not quite as many of them are needed. Who wants to slit their own throat. Accepting Poser as a capable applicaiton will do just that.

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