Myself, Robert Daymon (aka Master Rob of the Ultimate Force and cousin to Lord Finesse), and two other guys were starting an independent comic book company. I was brought on as a layout artist and animation "expert" (term used loosely at the time). Rob asked me to throw together a list of things I thought we could use in terms of software, so I did. We ended up getting Photoshop 2.5 (and every release after for free somehow up until PS5), SoftImage, Rhino 3D beta and Poser 2. I was tasked with teaching Rob and our colorist to use Photoshop,while both Rob and I explored using Poser as reference for helping with layouts. Interestingly, though perhaps not surprising in hindsight, we ended up doing more music related stuff like album covers and videos than we did comics but that's how I ended up getting my hands on Poser. A years later, I ended up getting hired by e frontier for my knowledge with their brand new (literally, I think the same week it came out I wrote a tut using it) program Manga Studio as a tech support guy. Couple years after that, I got asked to work with the Poser team on content for Poser 8 (the dog and Andy/Andrea are all me) and the rest is history.