Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Why is Curious Labs not listed as a Renderosity site sponsor?

Lucy_Fur opened this issue on Nov 01, 2001 ยท 9 posts


kupa posted Fri, 02 November 2001 at 10:52 AM

We've pulled back most of our advertising in all media in an effort to reduce our costs to ensure our long term viability. The events on September 11th have ground most consumer level software vendors revenue down to the bone, ours included. It's fiscally responsible for us to readjust our spending when our income changes. It shouldn't be construed that this move has any connection to our respect for this community. We know that the community here is vital to us, but to a degree, buying sponsorship is preaching to the choir. We are here daily, involved with our contirbutions in various threads, maintaining an active presence. Frankly, I don't see Corel as involved at personal level here as a number of from Curious are. As for new products, well of course the next release of Poser is important, it's our flagship, but we need to have other ways to keep the interest up. Note that we just released the free Cinema 4D plug-in to enable hosting Poser scenes. That is an incremental product, true, but it is an indication that we are busy, developing the Poser brand itself, and creating innovative ways to sell the brand to new users, in new communities. We also will be making an announcement about a brand new product next week. We have great hopes for this new offering, as it is both a great opportunity, it ties into what we do best- 3D characters- and it will help us to branch out so that we don't have all our proverbial eggs in one basket. Steve Cooper