Poser was my first experience with 3d so I kind of have a deference to the app... I recall having never even touched a computer and a graphic designer aquaintance of a former girlfriend plopped a Mac G3 down next to my easel. It came installed with Poser 3 and a really early version of photoshop... needless to say my painting took a back seat for a while. Well, that computer eventually went the way of the scrap heap... as did any further pursuits of digital art. It was only many years later that a computer found its way back into my possession.

And... here I am. I have to say though, there was something more spontaneous with the limitations of early Poser and my knowledge of the medium. Now there are so many options to go along with poser that there is more creative pressure to be 'Serious'... if this makes any sense. ZBrush, IDL, etc... sure is a lot different than trying to make posette (or whatever doll that was) look sexy in front of a .jpg of a waterfall.