randym77 posted at 8:19AM Mon, 22 July 2019 - #4357706

Those Poser-type apps, and the comments about the decline of desktops...it does make me think that Poser will probably have to move more toward professional users. At my office (where almost everyone is an engineer, so fairly tech-savvy), the young people don't use computers at home. They do use desktops at work, but at home, they do everything on their phones or tablets.

I suspect aiming at new/inexperienced users might be a bad plan. These people are going to be using apps on their phones, not a big-ass program like Poser.

Dunno - I'm on the fence about it mostly. Poser has traditionally been the 'down-low' Plan B of sorts for pros on a time crunch who want to get a little project done and out the door - it offered (and still offers, I trust) a basic set of stuff and a usable workflow to lash-up something good enough to pass muster on a small budget. Most houses I'd been in in the past always kept a couple copies of Poser and some assets for it around just in case (this included part of Intel's Graphics R&D folks back in 2007-2008, though none of 'em would admit it in open daylight.) DS sort of owns the majority of the hobbyist-only market anyway, so...

Going Pro wouldn't be too bad of a direction to take, but they'd have to make a lot of concessions to(and build a lot of tools for) the pros, then curate the hell out of the Marketplace to boost their appeal - perhaps expand and build on their conversion tools (in and out)... wouldn't take too much. Only question is, would there be a big enough market among the pros to sustain them? They only have so much time and money left to spend, and it''s a pretty big gamble. OTOH, they have most of the infrastructure and connections...