Attached Link: http://www.kirbymuseum.org/?q=gallery&g2_itemId=14828

Comics are probably best created with a mix of 2D and 3D art. The best 3D comic art doesn't grab me the same way as the best 2D comics drawn in the traditional sense.

The one area where 3D art can speed up comics is in providing models for repetitive hardware that doesn't change shape. Most traditional comic book artists gravitate to the medium because they love drawing the human form in dynamic poses. They don't like drawing background elements as much and that's where 3D models can be a tremendous time saver. The artist won't have to draw every widget on a tank or spaceship because those details are built into the model. It's very easy having that tank or spaceship model in dozens of panels because it's very easy to compose the model into the scene.

Posing figures takes a lot of time and practice to look good. Pose packs help, but there's still the time searching for a good pose and tweaking the pose for the specific action being performed. Even finding a wanted pose takes a lot of time. I used to dream of being a comics artist and got fairly good at figure drawing, but not quite good enough to believe that it could be a profession. I haven't found Poser as being a timesaver for drawing. I prefer it to get a nice finished semi-realistic result. Poser figures are too literal and the kind of exaggeration that can be drawn into a figure is much more dramatic than the figure constraints in a pose. The kind of figure exaggerations, emphasizing perspective and dynamics, can look right in a drawing, but may not be physically achievable with a preconstructed model in any reasonable fashion.

The fastest artist in the 60's (and maybe of all time) was Jack Kirby (link above to sample pages of his work) who drew 3-4 pages a day. Jack regularly drew, on a monthly basis, Fantastic Four, Thor, Captain America, and occasionally a few other comics all at the same time. I don't imagine that Jack's style of art is very popular today because it was a lot more cartoonish, but he was the king of comic artists duing the 60s and 70s. Having been drawing comics since almost the dawn of comics, Jack created most of the comic dynamics that artists still refer to today.

I don't think anybody can crank out the kind of dynamic pages, that Jack Kirby could pencil, using Poser.

My visual indexes of Poser content are at http://www.sharecg.com/pf/rgagnon