Quote - I think the main reason is simply that most poser work is mediocre. I think if there was a huge body of excellent work done in poser it would start to speak for itself, the perception would change, but unfortunately very few poser users produce really good renders.

Using pre-made content isn't really the issue, lots of 'pro' users use pre-made ready-to-render stuff. Businesses like Xfrog, Evermotion, Dosch etc wouldn't exist otherwise. Software like modo has a library system a lot like poser's runtime to allow users to exchange pre-made content.

Yep.  This hits it on the head.  I've even heard as much come from the communities at CGTalk and others as well.  It's not so much the use of prefab content (they do it themselves too), but the fact the work was done haphazardly, and without proper lighting and even posing.  I've heard so many times, if the one thing you are doing from scratch is posing figures, then that posing should be absolutely perfect.  Often it's not, and that's where the issue comes in against Poser.  At least that's what it used to be in the past.  Now that the software has improved in many aspects such as rendering, the output is much more professional looking overall.  Still, the most important factor to people critiquing Poser work, is in fact the posing.  Are the figures posed natually, and is the attention to detail there.  If the work looks like it was done in 5 minutes, it's going to get bashed.  Also, if the work was 90% painted over, then it no longer qualifies as 3D work.  Those are things they seem to pick on Poser's community for, and some of it is justified.

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