I stopped reading the other forum after about, oh three pages.  Frankly, not even bothering with the kevlar anymore, and really don't care what the opinion is of me if i vent some of my truer feelings about this.

These elitists, for whatever purpose, because they can afford (or jack off someone else for free) outrageously expensive programs, perhaps to look down at poser users and heckle, are starting to mess with my livelyhood.     Word gets around, no matter how you try and stop it.  There is few places to go anymore to do any serious type poser art and be seen, unless you have a trillion friends going "Oh lovely!" in response in comments.   I cant find others who are really serious about it, without going through many sites and galleries laiden with private parts ex'ed out or content advisories.    I am not bashing the nude artform, nor am i bashing beginners.

However, there is nowhere out there where people who are NOT hobbiests can go for poser, and not be thrown in with new users and hundreds of default vickies.

I use poser, sure.  I use it for what it was originally intended for, back then that was respectable.  you used it as a model, then you painted.  It was a guide not an entire 3d render engine genie.   Now?  If i even hint i use poser, people even the casual every day person walking by my gallery wrinkles their nose and turns away.

And its not the poser users doing this, its the elitists, and thats why I have a problem with them.  They are bashing and killing in the real world a tool used to create art.    Those that use it with utmost passion, are frowned on?

What should i shell out about three thousand dollars to do exactly what i do now, to ease their egotistical pragmatic mindselts?

Hell no.