Poser 7 with SR2 seems pretty stable to rely on for deadlines.

I mean, other than using Poser to make stuff to sell to Poser users,

do you use it for professional work?  Like illustrations, children's party invitations, etc?

I've done a few bookcovers, but otherwise, my renders are for websites and for the Rendo Gallery.  My render life would be spectacularly boring without the rendo gallery to post my hobby.

I bought one of those kodak 4x6 docking station printers.  So, if an excuse comes up in a conversation I can whip out renders.  Thanksgiving is at my cousin's tomorrow, I'm looking forward to toting my photo album of renders.  Which reminds me to pull out the nudey renders before showing the album to my Aunties and Uncles.

Happy Hollidays!

For me its mostly a part time hobby, I have used it for User Experience Design, to create some of the persona's used within the design process (to put a picture to persona created).

Funny you should ask that: when I bring up 3D to non-Poser people, they invariably ask: "What the heck do you do with the pictures??" It seems really hard to give as a reason: "oh, I post my images in a gallery..." - doesn't seem to carry enough validity, does it?

Be interesting to see what others say.

Me, I render primarily to test new shaders. I'm not an artist, so composition is still very much a mystery to me. I'll get it eventually, tho...

For Me Posting to the galleries and getting constructive criticism is a VERY important part of learning this amazing form of artistic expression.   I cannot draw or sketch but I am good at photography.

Poser, together with the Rendo Forums and Galleries gives Me the incentive to learn and improve..!

well............

I had a website where we 3d artist types could make our pics into stand alone  jigsaw puzzles.
I have over 400. I need 97 bucks to put the site back up(donations???) lol

I also had some animated screen savers.

Currently I just today made a bitchin flash slide show with movie sound. Turned out pretty darn cool :)

'Second use' beyond just posting them here in the gallery is my goal. :P

I've done almost a dozen book covers over the years, but no one ever pays. Been published in many magazines and downloadable mags. Also no one ever pays.

Even had a college down in south america use a bunch of my pinups as teaching tool.

Been selected for the scifi channel a couple of times.

And made a bunch of custom art for an HBO Documentary about CG porn.

and on and on..............

It's mostly personal stuff - galleries and product promo art, toolwise a mix of poser and vue.
Technciquies can be anything.

The few times it's pro stuff, it's mostly photos or photos with added CG. Then technque tends to  be simple, mostly so the image can be recreated quickly. Say if they need a bigger image for printing larger.

Like this month I've been really lucky to get a full page article about my new site in a UK regional magazine. That was made using my freebie DSU backgound kit with photos of an office block exteror (shot on a sunday so no people in it) and a 3d model rendered using a custom GI light set in Vue.

Quote - well............

I had a website where we 3d artist types could make our pics into stand alone  jigsaw puzzles.
I have over 400. I need 97 bucks to put the site back up(donations???) lol

I also had some animated screen savers.

Currently I just today made a bitchin flash slide show with movie sound. Turned out pretty darn cool :)

'Second use' beyond just posting them here in the gallery is my goal. :P

I've done almost a dozen book covers over the years, but no one ever pays. Been published in many magazines and downloadable mags. Also no one ever pays.

Even had a college down in south america use a bunch of my pinups as teaching tool.

Been selected for the scifi channel a couple of times.

And made a bunch of custom art for an HBO Documentary about CG porn.

and on and on..............

what is CG porn?  lol.  I guess that is a big part of the render market. 

I can't view any of it, all my internet ports are behind firewalls that shield me from those websites.

Lots of different reasons for my renders.

The organization I work with, I introduced and instructed them to the 3D age for instrucitonal education, very proud of that.
 
Next illustrations for another organization I was invited to assist with children who are abused. 

A few personal illustrations, a couple for instructional books....lots of variety out there for Render use.

I will never leave the 3D world, it is just too interesting and versitle.  Sharen

I've done some game art (box covers etc. not meshes!)  along with some business "concept" stuff through a stock library

I've pursued it as predominantly a hobby and it has become more experimenting and troubleshooting.  I am curious by nature, have always been.  As to where it will take me, who knows?  Something to play with when I finally retire in 10 years or so.

Mainly hobby for myself. I have done two illustrations, but only because they won a contest. :)

wait -

the nudie pics that  you  have to pull out and hide -

who  ae the nudies of?

poser figures?

Mainly for my own enjoyment and to get stories, images out of my head, I also work for 2 USA publishers doing book cover work, it's not well paid but it gets your name out there!

I do this purely for my own enjoyment and challenge to bring my personal characters to life.  I stick them up on DA to get half a dozen hits, and that's about it.

I recently made my first commercial project with poser 8. Funny enough without any human model. But I was so impressed with the new IBL lighting of Poser 8, that I had to give it a try and the results were stunning.
I made an interior scene for a project of my sister in law, and she was very happy with the results and so were her clients.

It proves it's possible to make professional work with poser.

If I have time I post an image in the gallery .

best regards,

Bopper.

 For me it's just for personal use/testing, I don't have has much time to play with it as I would like, so I never finish a render and my WIP (work in progress) folder is full of stuff.

Poser is a hobby for me.

it keeps me out of the pool halls...;) I do it for fun; I've actually printed some out on photo paper to decorate my cubicle, but that's about it. A small number of freebie models, because I like doing that.

but professional? @#$% no...;)

Most of my still renders are demos of models (I'm learning modeling);  my gallery has one demo of a model by Merlin, and the rest are promos of my freebie models.

I do make wallpaper (desktop background) images fairly often.

A big chunk of my render work is PNG frames for video/flash;  I like to animate.

Since my real life work deals much with mayhem, I use 3D as a relief to dwell on that which is good, that which is beautiful.

I don't do any commercial work.

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At this point it's mainly a hobby for me. I like to explore different methods of creating art - I'm into photography, computer art, as well as such archaic and esoteric forms of art such as drawing (with a pencil - gasp!). I'll admit that I certainly wouldn't mind doing this as a profession, but there's such an overload of talented artists out there that it will probably remain a hobby for the forseeable future.

I am planning on using some of my renders on my new, updated website - if I ever get around to updating it in between all the other stuff life throws in my path ;-)