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As far as lousy Poser 'art' is concerned -- true, it's there.  And we all had to start somewhere.  Even the best of us weren't born with a Wacom tablet stuffed in our mouths.  And while it's also true that some people simply have gobs more native talent than others will ever have -- such is life.  That doesn't mean that the weekend golfers can't enjoy their time on the course just as much as the pros do -- or that they should just give up trying & go away because they don't manage to hit a 65-or-less game every time (like the Big Boys do).

As for the "look-down-the-nose" attitude on the part of some towards Poser users -- I've seen it enough to know that it's there, and that it's real.  Such attitudes can be even worse when they are so accepted as the normal state of affairs that those harboring the attitudes aren't even aware of the fact that they have them.  By no means would all "pros" fall into such a category -- most of them are probably too busy to notice.

Hmmmmm.......I suspect that much of the casual anti-Poser attitudes that I've so clearly seen displayed elsewhere (a casual attitude exemplified by the CG Society member whose avatar says "Have Poser, will travel") -- perhaps such attitudes tend to come from wannabes, as opposed to "True Pros".  Whoever those "true pros" are.......when it comes to 3D (and art in general) -- I haven't quite managed to figure out who those people are yet.  I have to admit that this thinking on my part has gotten me into hot water in the past.  Because I didn't agree with the assumption on the part of certain others that they were as smugly superior to everyone else as they knew in themselves that they were.  Such people tend to become highly annoyed by uppity types who don't go along with their thinking in regards to themselves -- point out their thinking to them: and they can become enraged.

The root of the problem comes in when one tends to regard oneself as a member of an exclusive club -- sneering at the little people with their noses pressed against the glass outside, looking in pathetically at us smart people sittin' pretty on the inside.

Sure -- on occasion: someone is actually as good as they think that they are.  The difficulty arises when they let others know the fact via casual assumptions of superiority -- or through simple displays of unconscious contempt -- displays of which the perpetrator is not even remotely aware.......viewing it in their own minds as merely stemming from the natural reality of the situation.

There are "real pros" in nearly every field of endeavor.  And those "real pros" keep in mind the fact that they are human.  That's a tough idea for some to swallow -- while others reject it outright.

The 'rejectors' often eventually end up on the evening news in one capacity or another.  While others feel the disaster of pride going before a fall only in their personal lives.  But I'm straying from the central point here.

Yes -- some "pros" (whether really real pros, or just pros in their own minds) despise Poser and Poser users........while other "pros" take the correct tack and regard Poser as merely being another 3D tool.  Perhaps they are in the majority.  One would hope.

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