You are of course correct, primorge. Physical materials have their own problems and limitations, which is part of why I like to work digitally. My original motivation for getting into 3d figures, back in 2001, was that I had been doing black-and-white photography for a couple of years and then went overseas for a few months where I didn't have my bathroom-darkroom. So I thought Poser might help me understand portrait lighting, which I guess is true to some extent, but then I never really got back into photography.

That doesn't mean it wouldn't be nice to have the immediate feedback I'd have with something like clay. I've only done one rather small figure study from a live model in clay back in the day, so I wouldn't know how it is to do a life-sized one. My dad and his second wife used to work in clay, I never really got to that stage.

-- I'm not mad at you, just Westphalian.