I like sparrowheart's comparison. The writer, actors, set and props departments, lighting director, sound engineer, composer, costuming, makeup, etc. produce the actual pieces of a film. Most directors do none of this. But without a doubt they produce art. Much of it pedestrian, some of it great. The question is should the director claim/be given credit for it all? At our scale, we can have people who do it all - from building the models, painting maps and editing files, to arranging, lighting and rendering the scene or animation. No one excells at doing everything involved; most don't attempt to. I've always had a fairly liberal definition of art as attempting to creatively realize a vision that goes beyond the simple assembly of the obvious components (craft). We surely disagree on where Poser stops being simple assembly and becomes art, but most of us have seen, recognized and been inspired by it.