Quote - The real deal is in lighting Tables and lamps and mattresses for magazine adverts.

If you're not doing that, you're a laughing stock

I didn't say it was justified, but it is how the larger CG medium views Poser and like it or not we do indeed exist as one part of this medium. If you want to do any kind of commercial work outside our insular little community, you ignore these attitudes at your own peril.

Of course many Poser people (perhaps even most) don't care about the outside 'world' and that is fine too.