i love poser and i think the upgrades have been super. i think poser 7 is awesome. i never did get poser pro because i can't afford the expensive programs that i would need to buy to make good use of it. i think daz has some really cool animation tools like animate and  pupeteer. plus i wish the pose room could use some of daz's tools as well. i think some of daz's figures are better than poser's but i am still fond of the poser figures and i hope they keep them around. all and all i think poser with its cloth room, material room, hair room and its own cool animation tools is well ahead of daz. i like the way daz works so well with bryce and carrara some of its other programs: mimic, face shop etc. smith micro has some fairly cheap side programs why not make poser work well with them. i fear sometime that the poser pro commitment makes smith micro feel like it has to accomodate expensive programs instead of perhaps trying to trying acquire terragen, amorphium 3, truespace and trying to incorporate with one of these to broaden posers scope and depth.

Computer Art by Charles McChesney