Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/gallery.ez?ByArtist=Yes&Artist=Don

Credibily Quotient: I have been making a living as a graphic and fine artist for 30 years. I have been published, sold, recognized, and awarded (both honors and money). I have woked in traditional studio media (paints, prints, graphics, and sculpture) and in Poser for the last few years. My response: 3D programs and especially Poser are unique media. It compares with other digital and traditional art only as an image making tool. One will not get an oil painting out of Poser 4 or Poser 44. It is what it is. It will improve and change and become more realistic and more fun, but it will remain a separate and unique medium... and style. Approach it that way. Use its uniqueness and limitations to an advantage somehow. Feature them, rather than hide them. Exult in them. Poser is a true ART medium, as are oil, ink, and clay. Poser figures, textures, props, lights, and such, are all Raw Materials. How they are put together is what matters. Picasso put a bicycle seat and handlebars together and called it a bull's head (sculpture) and it hangs in a museum. Raw materials... What I think is missing in Poser art is cohesion. Subject matter aside... very rarely do I see Poser figures set in a background that matches. It does not have to look realistic, it has to look like it goes together. Most look like a stylized drawing pasted onto a photo... just doesn't look right. No cohesion. Perhaps the various background and world/setting programs and props have more capabilities than I usually see displayed. But, most renderings just look odd. I very rarely ever use much background, preferring to focus on the figures, lights, and props. There's a lot that can be done with just that. See some examples in my gallery. No nekid chix... but pictures that tell a story. Stories are another thing lacking in much Poser art. One remedy for cohesion: Try the Poser sketch render tool. It can really blend object and ground into an integrated looking surface. It will render over backgrounds and background images. It really makes things go together.