art charts have nothing to do with talent and skill.  they have to do with who manages to spend lots of time making appreciative comments on other's works and post almost daily.  sometimes a CGTalk star comes to Rendo, doesn't  interact with anyone, and gets big on their rep elsewhere.  but that's rare.  i have several favorite artists who are popular, and i notice i see them commenting a lot.  they're great artists, but they still have to schmooze.  conversely, if you check, most of the art chart Poser artists do the same thing again and again and again.  no growth, no exploration, no pushing in artistic or technical matters.  don't get me wrong, they often do very good work, but the sameness makes it easy to churn out works without thinking very hard about it.