Quote - My suggestion is: whatever makes it easier for you to achieve your vision, go for it.  The current Gc discussion/argument as definitely drawn battlelines, but understand that there are methods that simplify your workflow and reduces rendering overhead to create your art.  You may use a brute force method of expensive processors, mega ram and luxury video cards to blast your images into submission, or a technical approach which applies sensible settings and technology to reduce you computer's workload to accomplish the same end.  Which would you select? 

It is a matter of choosing the right tools to develop the style that is right for creating your art.

I guarantee that those who use "the technical approach" are doing so on machines with a lot more processing and ram than I am. Nor has anyone managed to persuade me that that "the technical approach" will simplify my workflow, as opposed to making it impossibly complex.

I am beginning to think that I'm in the wrong forum.

Perhaps Poser, with all its flaws and the "necessity" of overly complex workarounds, just isn't the right software.

It's apparent that using GC makes one an artist. Is this even up for discussion?