Quote - I am seeing Poser-generated scenes being used more and more often for purposes like this.  Dare we call them.........professional applications of Poser?  cough cough cough

As everyone knows: the words "professional" and "Poser" when placed in juxtaposition to one another form an oxymoron.  Except, of course -- for those many professionals who regularly use Poser in secret but who will never admit to the fact publicly.  It's just too embarassing.

It's interesting - you're talking about two very different applications for Poser as a creative program. For creating art, within an artists community (whether it's the Poser community or 3D in general), yes - there is a certain stigma about Poser being a guilty pleasure...or as someone else put it to me today: a "low end consumer 'toy'."

But when you're talking about commercial applications for Poser, I doubt you'll find many people who are scared to admit to their boss that they saved the company hundreds to thousands of dollars by using Poser over some other 3D program. If it gets the job done, and it's tons cheaper, it's instantly a better solution.

It's the difference between artistic integrity, and career integrity. Two totally different areas.

But as far as the commercial uses for Poser, surely you've seen it more often than in just magazines! What about those "artistic renderings" of architectural spaces, wherein they have a bunch of stock figures walking and playing around? I noticed that most of those are from...or made for...Poser. I saw a billboard the other day with James G1 and G2, and Jessi G2 to boot. There's probably a lot more than we think.