This morning I turned on the TV to find an infomercial on some fat burning pill. And there she was, the P4 Casual female, getting more and more 2-dimensional as the narrator described the wonders of the product. They didn't even bother to alter her even slightly, colors and all. Had I known she was that desperate for work, I would have helped her find something in the red light district. At least that's somewhat more respectable. Sheesh.

I think I just saw the Poser 2 guy spinning around for the "World's Stongest Man" competition. He looked as flakey as I remember him.

There was a cheesy dancing skeleton on last Halloweens Monday Night Football. I laughed long and hard. It had this silly sound effect every time it popped up. Anvil. I suppose if we were getting paid to use our cheesy animations we wouldn't be laughing so loud. Anvil.

You can also spot Posette during the video/animation montage at the beginning of "The Full Nelson," a dumb talk show on Fox News Channel.

It's not who you know, it's who you...

I've seen these examples, and they pale next to the work available at this site, and others. How long have they been using the program? 20 minutes? Any of you regular contributors/posters could slice 'n dice these chumps before breakfast. Or maybe they pay so low they can't afford enough bananas for a second chimp to sit at the keyboard. The little man inside my computer laughs scornfully! I agree with him.

I saw that commercial. You can also see the basic poser "kung fu" pose go by real quick in The Matrix during Keanu Reeves' training session.

There was also a P2 male in a book commercial on the SciFi channel. I think it was a SciFi book club thing...

I thought arabinowitz's post was pretty funny but then some of these started to be seriously critical of that little piece. Although I feel certain that the poor guy who did that job is not likley a visitor here, I feel obliged to express a "real world" view of the piece. (climbing atop soapbox...) One mustn't confuse advertising and fine art. Although their media are frequently the same, their objectives, and therefore their criterea for evaluation, are vastly different. How would you have convinced that client that letting you spend a day creating a cool little $2000 animation would have been a better use of their resources than what they probably got on tape in less than 30 minutes for under $200. It would be hard to argue that more elaborate and more expensive animation would have communicated their point any clearer - or sold any more product - and therefore would likley have been a foolishly needless expenditure. "Roi de Fromage" -Nance -Unruffling his feathers as he goes back to work editing someone else's cheesy infomercial :-) (And before you bite back, I know that every person who frequents HERE could have, and would have, done a cooler job even if given only 30 minutes.)

C'mon, bad art is bad art no matter where it is used. I appreciate the economic argument but, as you said, most of the Render-ositers could do a better job in the same time. Would you pay for a second-class product when the best is available for about the same price? Somebody got paid for that poop, and it wasn't us! But hey, at least they are using it.

I've worked in TV spots, and the main responsible for low quality usually is the client, always wanting to spend as little as possible (and the creative people, always handling you the storyboard two days before deadline). Besides that, is quite usual to find Poser renders in french magazines or spanish editions of french magazines like "CNR" and others from the Hachette group. Maybe Metacreations had a very good french import agent.