Hmm, vague mentions of a relationship with geekatplay and now geekatplay is unavailable. Please tell us this is just a coincidence. I'd hate to think that geekatplay is going away or its pricing/free tutorials are suddenly going 'uptown.'

Teyon I'm sure has a good point but I question whether CGSociety et al is a pricing model that will work for the Poser community, at least for the hobbyist segment of it. I think you can probably get far more long term benefit from $50-$100 spent on quality training as opposed to the same spent on content, but I'm not sure how many will allocate their funds that way. That's in addition to real budget limitations and the fact that hobbyists can't expect to see a financial return, unlike professionals who, in addition, I assume can take a tax write off of some of the expense.  

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