it just depends on what you want to be a pro artist in, and what you want to show about it.

Poser is not very helpful for your modelling skills, and for industrial animating / rigging skills it's sort of questionable. For texturing, lighting and rendering, Poser is non-standard so it won't launch you into a 3D job. It's hardly used in art-schools.

But for showing your scene-creation, posing, story-telling, illustration, post production and mastering texturing / lighting / rendering - fundamentals, Poser is as good as anything. You only need to be as good as...

...my favorites on Poser: tiff666, Paul Francis, lundqvist, RGUS

and I guess there are more.

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Usually I'm wrong. But to be effective and efficient, I don't need to be correct or accurate.

visit www.aRtBeeWeb.nl (works) or Missing Manuals (tutorials & reviews) - both need an update though