The recent thread about "Poser" people being compositors rather than artists was an interesting discussion. Coincidentally I was web surfing and came across another web site for 3D Art. Most of the modelling and renders were done in Lightwave, Maya, and some SGI specific programs. There was some amazing stuff there.

One of the images was done by Catharina Przezak. She used POSER to do one of her typically amazing portraits. I was stunned by the condescending and sarcastic comments that she received. She was told that she might as well use photoshop and that her image was more appropriate to a 2d gallery. One comment said that it looked like she had talent but implied that she was wasting her time with POSER. It was also mentioned that the true 3d artist is someone who models and renders everything from scratch. (I wonder why they don't write their own software too...)

As I looked through the site's gallery I couldn't help but notice that there were a fair share of images that, although they were done in these "high end" programs, didn't match some of the stuff I've seen here. They could have bought POSER and saved themselves $2000.00. People here regularly take POSER to levels that would surely stun most of the elitists.

I hope that an improved POSER 5 can help some of the more talented people around here really show off their abilites.