Retrowave posted at 6:45AM Thu, 02 January 2020 - #4375219

@Clarkie - I moved over to Blender many years ago, but still do love Poser and its interface. I do not have a single animation or render produced in any program I have ever used, not Blender, not Poser, not anything. Not anything I would consider good enough to be artistic enough for my gallery, anyway. In fact, I've never uploaded an image to a gallery in my life.

And this is where a lot of my frustration stems from, cause I feel like after all this time, I really need to be getting on at least with some animation shorts. I've had ideas for movie shorts for years now, and I did jump deep into Blender 2.76 to get a feel for the rigging and animation possibilities. But then the whole 2.8 thing picked-up, so I decided to wait a bit and see what changes were made in 2.8, then hopefully make a start once that version had reached maturity. And now that it has, it's really just my own hardware situation that is getting in the way. I bought a new laptop with the goal of being capable of running Blender's fancy new viewport, and it does that, but I'm unsure at the moment whether I should keep it, or return it and build a new desktop PC instead.

So I already am a Blender user in the fullest sense of the word. But whenever Poser is being preparing for a major new release, I always show interest, because it's a program I love using, and I would love for it to catch up in the area is has clearly become a failure, that being animation. It is true that there is literally nothing I would not be able to do in Blender. But it is also true that I would likely get things done quicker in Poser if only the animation side of things were updated.

Well, as you know, I am a Blender user as well. Started back just before Roxie came out, so you've seen the renders I've done of stuff I made for her. I stopped rendering altogether before I made the Poser Content Directory, and I was even selling a few things at Content Paradise. But now I'm back to rendering in Blender. The reasons are many, but I like to make props for use in Poser, and I have more control over the shading and rendering in Blender than in Poser. Here are a couple of things I've rendered in Blender in just the past few weeks. Ironically, they're props I'm making for Poser. For the moment they're unavailable, but I may make them available for free just to see how they look in Poser.