Quote - The thing that fascinates me about MikeJ -- and I put this out there as thoughtfully as possible -- is that he, like many others, loathes Poser and yet loves to post in Poser boards.

Go figure.

I don't loathe Poser, Sean. I've been using it alot lately. What I do loathe about it is it never fails to let me down right when I don't need it to.
I've written several times recently that I'm looking forward to seeing what this upcoming Poser Pro has to offer, although I'm not expecting miracles.
But, with each new version, I hope finally some of these things that have been bugging me will be addressed, and so I keep upgrading. I have five versions of Poser on my shelf and multiple patches and updates on CD's. Soon there will be one more. Kind of odd for someone who loathes a program, wouldn't you say?
As someone who knows Poser rather quite well, and has spent a fair amount of time and money on it, I do feel thoroughly justified in stating my own opinion of it. You see some of my posts as "loathing". Well, so be it, if you want to think that. But I'm not a Poser fanboy, nor will I be until it convices me otherwise. I've watched all my other favorite software step well into the 21st century within the last couple of years, yet Poser always lags behind.
In truth, affordability doesn't mean jack to me. I loathe the way every company which buys Poser fails to see the potential it has, yet it will never reach it as long as it's targeting the hobbyists. I wouldn't mind paying a thousand bucks for a program that has what Poser has, with a renderer like mental ray or LightWave. And I would buy that version, too.

What I do loathe is this weird fanatacism which has built up around it. It's a phenomeon I don't see on the boards for any other software to this extent. And the rabid commercialism, with thousands of repetetive, redundant and often outright idiotic products.

Hey, I flushed you out, Sean! It's ...umm.. good to hear from you again. As they say, always a pleasure. ;-)