I'm just using G8 as she is the most obvious competition.

(And for the record, I also have a lot of things to criticize about G8.)

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Yes, Poser has a lot of tools. And I pretty much use or used all of them in the past 22yrs.

But I disagree that Poser is bought for the tools.

I bought Poser because it promised me to add realistic human beings to my artwork.

Well, neither Posette nor Dork were especially "realistic".

Nor were any of the many figures that followed, including the DAZ ones.

So I learned to fix them with the tools Poser provided.

It was fun, but I did it because I HAD to. Because there was no ALTERNATIVE.

I much rather had started with a figure like G8, that at least is 85% "correct" right out of the box instead of having to fix basic functionality.

More time fixing things makes less time making art.

So, no, I think both Studio as well as Poser are bought for the same reason: The figures.

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And don't understimate Studio's toolset. (I was one of the first actually paying for Studio's rigging tools)

They even have a type of "Morphbrush" plugin. It is still a bit primitive, but in a year or so it might be just as capeable as the Poser morphbrush is now!