Can't shake this feeling, looking through some of the images on a website like CGTalk.com, and then looking through the gallery on a Poser site (like DAZ) that there is a big dividing line between Poser users and other 3d creators - mainly that, with Poser images, you inevitably get repetitions of the same blinking figures doing the same things over and over again. It was an issue that came up on the Animotions website recently, where a discussion started over whether Poser was a help or a hindrance to creators of 3d work. Some users expressed the opinion that a lot of artists who use Poser tend to get a bit lazy. I could see their point.
There's got to be some kind of middle ground between the kind of (slightly sickeningly) super-talented 3d artists who build their own figures completely from scratch, and rig them and pose them and make clothes for them and build an entire cityscape for their character to live in and probably built their own blinking computer to boot, and the other kind of artists who are really just producing (yet more) images of Spider Man swinging through a city scene or Victoria 3 looking sultry as she poses with a huge gun, for fun - a hobby, nothing more.
Question is, where do I fall on that sliding scale between artist and hobbyist, and do I really want to be there? I have this creative urge to make visual things, and yet can't help thinking that using Poser is just like making Lego models or photographing Action Man in a costume that you've made for him.
