Quote - Whether you use Poser and Firefly or Luxrender with Reality or Pose2Lux or Vue, it all boils down to how well the artist knows her tool set. And it doesn't have to cost an arm and a leg. Whilst people distribute FUD about Blender, I have yet to see anything done anywhere by anyone using anything to rival this. ETA: oh, and yes, that is Blender.

There is no easy road to excellence. And you can't buy your way there, either.

That Blender render is superb Robynsveil. My issue with Blender was originally just that it represented too steep a wall to climb first. Or seemed to.

Having learnt some more modelling etc. in other apps, like Hexagon... and now tackling ZBrush indeed... I am starting to feel more up to diving back into Blender.

Plus the Poser importer for Blender project has really come on some, since I last looked into it, end of last year... and, I know it's maybe a bit of an amateurish kind of attitude for me to hold, perhaps... but... I'll be the first to admit to being an amateur at this stuff... and having that more clearly defined bridge from Poser to Blender will help me significantly with the crossover, I think...

...so too... and I'm, incredibly, somehow, steering this thread back onto the rails here...

...so too will the GoZ integration for Poser, announced for SR3, help me substantially I think, with moving into using ZBrush.