Quote - 3d is about creating virtual reality.

I'm NOT against premade stuff.
I CAN model, but I see no need to re-invent the wheel every time for every render.

My point is not "He is a true artist because he modelled it all by himself".
My point is "He is a true artist because he strives for quality".

The problem is, 99,9% of Poser users are happy with using mediocre quality, that's why they get mediocre quality.

There is no reason that you AVERAGE Vicky morph you buy in the marketplace couldn't look as realistic as this.

If only DAZ (Or someone else) would make an ACCURATE 3d mesh based on a real human to start with.
And people would be willing to pay enough for QUALITY to make Poser attractive for professional 3d MODELLERS.

All you'll get for $1.99 is a quick dial spun. And even the "top of the line" $25 Poser stuff doesn't come even CLOSE to these morphs.

You know ..... its a little hard to get things perfect in poser. I try  myself  fairly often to make my renders as good as possible,( I havent posted many renders here lately so don't go by that  completely) BUT theres several things stopping me .....

Every time I think I have my lights perfect because the render looks just as I want it to on my monitor I post it and someone complains that its too dark or its too light or something is washed out or some other problem. It looked just fine on my monitor, not everyone's monitors are calibrated the same ... if at all.

As for characters I never use a character as purchased if ever, in fact the only reason i even buy characters at all are for the textures if I like them well enough. I prefer to make my own characters  and while I only use the morphs built into whatever figure I am using  whatever character I come up with is unique. I have never seen anyone else's characters looking like mine. ever.

On props and backgrounds  I don't use just any old crap unless theres nothing else and even then I try to change the textures on it to make it look better than it did originally. I remember there was a contest I had entered a render in and  even though I had bought the building I was using at DAZ the textures were VERY low res and just completely  took away from the whole of the render because of that.

I never claim to be super good but I think I am decent I KNOW I have a lot of room for improvement. I am trying to learn to build what I need when i cant find it but that takes time and thats something I don't have much of since I am in college right now. But contrary to what you  say I AM an artist though I don't limit myself to just 3D