hornet3d posted at 10:58AM Wed, 09 September 2015 - #4144593

Quote - > Quote - Part of the "creativity", part of the "fun and personal satisfaction", is to build the content yourself.

That's what YOU say!

All teasing aside, Tony, I've spent over $1500 on modeling softwares that ***I can't begin to understand! ***And before everyone starts berating my intelligence, I'm not a dummy. I have degrees in mass communications and film, electrical engineering, and psychology. I've written books. I'm good enough at Poser that people hire me to illustrate for them.

I'm not an idiot, (contrary to popular opinion) but no tutorial I've run across has made Wings understandable to me. Sculptris... Blender... ZBrush... they all make no sense to me! All I wind up with after spending the money and hours and hours of grief is a shapeless nothing!

For my purposes, I can either buy content or go do something other than Poser. 

I doubt I am alone.

 

Nope, you are not alone.  I have tried some of the Digital Tailor tutorials and that has been the best for me, that and Silo.  However the most I have done so far is to modify items purchased for my own use.  On the whole I purchase content and then modify the materials either within Poser or, for figures, I use Paint Shop Pro and layers.  I have added scars, tattoos and freckles that way and I enjoy it, good as Silo is I don't get the same buzz from that.

I just cannot see me spending the time to build something that could take me a week (plus the year gaining the skills) and yet I could buy of $10.

Ditto to subscribe to this thread.

I have a lot to do and not much time to do it in yet I spend as much time as I can using Poser. DAZ for me was mainly to gain great models and then quickly import for use in Poser. I don't post much in my gallery. For exposure post I elsewhere. As it says above. Why should I spend weeks trying to model something that I could buy for 10 bucks. If both of us are of the same mind; with respect to creator and purchaser, the synergetic result is that we both get what we want. The Original Poster makes a lot of assumptions, most of them wrong about who buys models and why. I don't recall being asked either question so that reduces his results by at least two.

One thing he is correct about is the ability to use instancing. Either in animation or a static model, that would be a godsend. It's the reason I made several purchases that emulate this within Poser.