Sure, there are some experts in the poser community doing excellent work entirely with Poser but they are in the minority

You can say that about ANYTHING, from Word to Maya to PowerPoint and back again. Sorry, that's much of a shocker statement. Again, I refer you to the overwhelming amount of crap one can find at places like CGTalk, all done by students or amateurs, most of whom will never stay with the programs long enough to do anything beyond that point. Should we then start to disparage #D Max and Maya because of what entry-level users do with it?

Sure, a lot of people move on from programs to things more advanced. I dont use Poser anywhere near as much in my professional design life as I did three years ago, but I still use it a great deal for book illustration, and if my sales records are any indication, my editors dont consider the work crap. Like everything else -- and has been said so many times we might as well make it the theme line for this site -- it all depends on what you freaking do with it and how much time you're willing to invest in making it more than just some entry level image. And that goes no matter what program you use, period, end of story, full stop.

To put it another way, shall we stop reading Jane Austen because she wrote everything out long-hand? I mean, please, that's so 18th century!!! Or shall we look at her work for the marvel it is, regardless of how she got words in print?

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