This is from Project Pinocchio. It was called something else prior to that, but I don't remember what thou.

It is designed to allow you to make base game characters very quickly. But there is more to it than that. There are other companies adding to this in different ways.

Side Effects has Houdini Engine, which can be used for creating game levels just about as fast as you can create the characters now. It drasticallly cuts down on the coding require to build a level. Similar to Posers material room, it is node based and allows you to drag and drop a lot of prefabbed networks into it. Once you have the networks built you can just drag them in and set them up per instance. It is really (extremely) quick compared to coding the whole thing manually.

http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2525&Itemid=66

In the end, this is a double edged sword. It will allow for very fast game creation, but that doesn't mean that the content and play of the game will be worth playing.

This also has little to do with Poser, and lots to do with cranking out games and some CGI stuff. But that may change.... As the gaming hardware gets better, it will be able to do more and more. And at the rate that is going it may not be to long before games will look better when played than even the best renders of a single scene do now. Both will progress thou, and single frame renders that take hours will still look better than games on the fly do... They probably will years from now as well, but sooner or later both of then will look "real". Once that happens there is little left to do in the appearance department.

When it comes to high end animations, the characters created in this need not apply. They are generic game characters. Very generic, and designed for speed on current hardware.

The scenes (levels) that you can create in Houdini Engine are another story. They can be simply stunning. But in the end, they are hardware limited at the end user as well.

I know people that do high end CGI and game stuff, and many of them think Poser (and/or) Studio are cool programs due to there ease of use. Just because a few say otherwise doesn't mean that all of them turn their noses up at Poser/Studio.

I would not worry about those "certain" people. Let them say what they want.

If you like your artwork, it can't be wrong. If they don't like it, oh well....

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