Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: I want to know: Does using Poser make you feel like cheats and not real artists?

FutureFantasyDesign opened this issue on Sep 10, 2011 · 342 posts


Penguinisto posted Tue, 13 September 2011 at 4:35 PM

vintorix is right, you know. I would only add that spewing out a random laundry list of movies isn't much in the way of evidence to support either side of the argument.

But hey, let's grind through the rest...

Quote - Yeah and the human Fk/ Ik solver rigs that Dont exist in Daz studio at all

...and don't also exist in the plugin/bridge? You certainly know a lot about something that doesn't exist yet. 

Quote - according to Daz you will have All of the functionality of genesis

Which means what, exactly? They didn't say, did they? 

Quote -  if you dare  take your best Daz genesis promo links over to CGS ...

All that bluster of taking it to CGSociety is moot, for two reasons:

  1. Nobody there is going to admit using Poser or D|S professionally at any point in the pipeline. You may as well ask them if they masturbate (...and the answers will be exactly the same: everyone does it at least a little but most won't admit to it, and at least half will deny it with hot and fervent anger).

  2. There is one and only one true factor of a commercial software item's success or failure: $$$. If it makes money, it will still be around. If it does not, then you would be right, and it wouldn't even have been considered (I'm using the D|S FBX plugin as a metric). DAZ software is not immune to this bit o' business law, because I can tell you from first-hand experience that codemonkeys don't come cheap, and good ones will cost you even more. You don't waste that kind of per-hour rate on things that don't make money.

Pay real close attention to #2, because that's the whole crux of the matter, innit? 

 

(just to be on the safe side I'll tick the language tag, in case anyone gets offended by the "m" word, mm'kay?)