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Heck, given the handicaps, I personally think anyone that can get a resonable looking render out of poser deserves MORE credit than someone using a $1000+ ablet, to sculpt a blob into a single specific shape in a program running from $20000 to $10000! Of course none of those "ARTISTS" will ever admit that.

mike

 

And the flames start..NO what he is saying , IMO, is that if someone can utilize Poser and create a high quality image with the limited tools that this app has to offer , in comparison to the big bucks and high end apps and plug ins that the big boys have to offer. That they should be giveen more credit. Though BOTH are hard to master, mastering poser and getting a HIGH quality image / animation out of it is much more difficult to attain than doing it with say Pixarman.

Additionally you stated another point that the Big Guns have, Propretary plugins and aplications. You have to take into consideration that these guys are also dumping probally millions of dollars worht of time and resources into creating software/plugins to do EXACTLY what they require. they are using tools to do specific things very well, not a generalist tool designed to many things ok. 

In that light if somoene can take the generalist tool and make a High quality image/animation that the only reason you can tell it was done in poser is beacuse you recognize the that that is Vick3, then YES thatr person deserves much more credit for THAT skill than another person.

On the same hane the developer of a MOdel deserves credit for THAT skill as much as the developer of an applicaiton deserves credit for THAT skill

apples and oranges

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