Quote - Too much emphasis on the math side would take away the fun for many of us.

But as you get further and further into CG and Poser picks up these extra features, it starts to become all mathematics.

The artistic concepts relating to composition, etc, apply in Poser 1 just as they do to Poser Pro 2010. As each version in between has been released, the techniques learned in art class have not changed... constructing a good scene, conveying emotion in a face, etc, has followed the same rules throughout. The things that have changed are the technical bits, those based on mathematics (mainly the physics of light).

As a result, the natural progression of all future Posers, as far I can see, will involve more and more mathematics and being aware of what value X does to a render. The baseline of artistic knowledge needed to make a good picture will remain basically unchanged.