Quote - Sorry to sound harsh but the personal lives of people who vend here should have no bearing on their products.  Whether any vendor has personal problems is not any concern of mine and I do not think that it is advisable to discuss anyone's personal and private life in the public forae.  

If they choose to try and make a living from Poser products that is their decision and theirs alone and to publicise such reasons in such an emotive way rubs me up the wrong way, maybe it is the great British reserve that we hear so much about or maybe it is just that I do not like emotional blackmail and that is what it smacks of to me.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who doesn't understand what it has to do with anything.  I'm truly sorry to hear her life is hard.  I know how that is.  My life is hard, too.  My therapist is astounded at all the sh*t that happens to me.  What I've already said in this thread isn't even the tip of the iceberg.  Hell, I could reel off a whole list of vendors whose lives are hard; some of their lives are so hard they make me cry.  But I don't get why we're talking about it. 

I feel like that guy in Cool Hand Luke going "what we have here, is a failure to communicate."  Because from what I'm understanding, one person said her products were similar, made quickly, and used a lot of resource kits, and several other people spoke up and said "her life is hard."  I'm not seeing a correlation here. 

Also, I've seen several people basically saying "don't hurt her feelings; feel sorry for her."  Well I do feel sorry for her, even though I don't know her.   But similarity is a subjective opinion.  I don't think anyone can argue that she works quickly.  So unless she doesn't use a lot of resource kits, or is embarrassed to use a lot of kits, I don't see where her feelings could be hurt.  My older products use a lot of resource kit material.  My recent ones are photos only.  I work slowly (sometimes hideously slowly).  Whether or not my products are similar is a matter of opinion.  And I won't be insulted or upset if anyone says so.  In fact, if anybody does think my characters look too similar, I'd like to hear it, and to know what they think I could do to improve. 

And hey, if anybody wants to have a contest to see if they can make stuff that looks like mine, let me know.  I'll judge it. :-)  I thought that was funny.

One goes into the house of eleven eleven times, but always comes out one. -River Tam