Retrowave opened this issue on Dec 23, 2019 ยท 268 posts
ghonma posted Sun, 29 December 2019 at 7:26 AM
The 3D/CGprofessionals that actually matter, are not using Poser/Daz studio or Iclone.
Actually one area of the CG industry makes heavy use of DS, namely 'adventure games.' Well they call them adventure games but it's mostly a basic mystery or adventure plot with some casual puzzle solving and things like finding hidden objects and so on. There's lots of static backgrounds with some lightly animated characters or props. There's dozens of them released every month and they almost invariably use DS, or to put it more accurately they use DS renders of DAZ content with occasional postwork. Anyone whose played one of these 'games' will easily spot the stuff they're using...
Now this was a market that Poser could have seriously aimed for, and in fact once upon a time it did see healthy use in this industry. But once the DAZ split happened and all the best vendors making the best content flocked to DS, so did the industry. To get them back would require serious investment into Poser content by someone with deep pockets but so far all the owners seem to want to crowdfund it's content. Which doesn't really inspire much confidence if you're a business looking for pipeline tools.