Poser animations, or Poser content animated in something else? It's very common to bang out a morph/customization in Poser, export as a whole textured .obj, then import to {high-end-app}, rig, and fire away (if the rigs haven't already been pre-built for the base figure in the first place). Custom 3D humanoid meshes are expensive, and building one takes a lot of time.

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Meanwhile, I didn't mean to distract around Blender, just that it shows a whole lotta Linux usage out there (the majority of Blender installs are in Linux). Point is, if DAZ could squeeze in D|S to a major distro, it could very easily build a much larger userbase than it has today.

Whether Poser does or not? Dunno; they don't have the freebie app option (though a port of Poser 4/5 as a freebie version would work well enough).

Meanwhile, yep... 3DS Max and etc. are pirated heavily (ironically, in spite of C-DILLA or whatever kind of dongle Discreet is using nowadays).

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