Quote - One of the attractions of Poser, to my mind, is that it offers different attractions to different people - which may be the very definition of a worthwhile hobby. If you like delving around in the innards of CR2s and making morphs with an Excel spreadsheet, Poser is for you; if you like pursuing photorealism, Poser is for you; if you want a basic image that you can paint over and/or postwork to death, Poser is for you; if you want to make your own depraved pornography, Poser is for you. ;)
With such a wide user base, it should be no surprise that there are disagreements. Maybe I ought to round off my list with: "if you want to pick a fight, Poser is for you." :P

A routine Google image search recently led me to a page of "show more like" images on DeviantArt, which ended up being mostly Poser-made pronography.  It was remarkable how varied the images were, even when the same base figures were obviously showing up over and over again.  It's been a long time since I've browsed any gallery of Poser art (of any kind), so the variety and creativity on display, even with such risque material, was a bit exciting.  There was... an awful lot of the stuff.  :lol:  Determined to get to the end of the page, I kept coming back to it throughout the day, scrolling and scrolling, periodically responding with "Ooh!  Look at that!" and "Ewww!  Look at that!"  :lol:

The porn itself, not so exciting, really.  Allerleirauh once commented on how Poser had affected her view of the world, stating that she found herself admiring the "texturing" of other customers' elbows as they waiting in line at the grocery.  Scrolling through what was supposed to be titllating material, I found myself admiring lighting and composition, the joint handling in one case, the materials in another.  Some of the most interesting compositions seemed to have been made back in the Poser 4 days, with the primitive lights and shadows, materials and rendering options that we had back then.  It began to seem to me that a lot of the images more obviously rendered recently (SSS tended to be the main giveaway), the compositions themselves were less impactful as images.  (As erotica... meh, anyway.)  This raised a vague thought in my head (where most of the thoughts are vague already :lol:) that maybe Poser has become less right-brainy and more left-brainy, as more capabilities, options, and tricks have been introduced.  Maybe like things were getting bogged down in details, and the bigger picture was being missed, a lot of the time.

Of course, it may just be that the less impressive older images didn't survive the test of time, to be posted fairly recently at any website, whereas any merely adequate render made more recently might make the cut and be posted.  There's probably some sampling error or confirmation bias at work here.  But I found it interesting.  Probably I should spend some time perusing a few higher-brow Poser galleries, now that I've gone through a somewhat trashy one and been surprisingly wowed.  Wowed and sometimes squicked.  :unsure:

And... have I been babbling about, umm, Poser porn?  Umm.  :scared:  Umm-umm.

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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking.  He apologizes for this.  He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.

Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below.  His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.