Welcome Vale,

Well just like you, I am also a Poser noob.
I just started a few weeks ago, and I can say that it learns pretty fast.
In my galery you find my first real Poser art, the one with the girl.
I only added the background and the katana into it in Photoshop. But the girl is straight rendered and used from Poser.
I even already made a first rough animation.

Well as the others say, just ask questions here, this is a great community with a bunch of very helpfull and realy nice people.
Soon you will join the ranks of the poserholics =)

You will catch up fast on the lingo. I admit that some of it still sounds as mumbojumbo to me, but once you get the hang of it its quit straight forward.

I also started to learn to use Blender to make my own props (items you can use).
The freebee's are realy great, but I just like to make my own items. And later on (when I become decent at it ;-)) I hope I can donate some free items to the community.

And check out the free stuff here, you can search for poser items specific if you want.
Check for what caracter it is and if you have that character, the OBJ (wavefront) files you can use as props.
My personal favourit to work with is Jessi. She is a tough girl to work with but her body type is perfect for my next character
Only down side is, its hard to find decent cloth etc for her. Something to dive into later =)

Personaly I would say, fidle around with other programs as well, like Blender, paintshop etc so you can make your own items and textures. But ofcourse thats a personal thing.

Well if you have any questions, feel free to contact me in the forum or with site mail.
Its alway's a good feeling that you have some one who strugles in the same proces ;-)

I am not a complete idiot, some parts are missing :)

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