Quote - I don't know what makes you think they don't listen to their customers.

Where have you been lately? Guess you did miss the whole CP deal, one of the examples of how well they listen to their customers....... Nothing to do with what I want personally.

Quote - You can judge by looking in the gallery. Heheh. I assure you, SM is responding quite accurately to their installed base.

90% of what's shown in the galleries can be achieved with Poser 5 easily, heck even Poser 4 for that matter. I don't think the galleries here are any standard to judge by, but that's another discussion.

Quote - How come you don't use their Anime Studio then, instead of Poser? They have a whole product specifically designed to do what you want. Or do you think all SM products should be merged into one?

Because I want to do 3d anime and toons perhaps? Anime Studio by far doesn't give me what I want. Anime Studio and Poser are worlds apart and cannot accomplish the same thing. I don't want flat 2D stuff, I want a 3D world, which Poser is designed for. If I want 2D I will get my paper, pencils and so on, I don't need Anime Studio for that (unless I want to animate which I don't). I'm creating 3D illustrations and Anima Studio isn't the tool for that, Poser is. My genre happens to be anime/toon, not realistic. Looking at all the anime/toon content sold, it's obvious I'm not the only one. Unfortunally Poser seems to be more and more disregarding this userbase and others (like Olivier and others at RDNA) do their best to fill the gaps that Poser has.

Quote - > Quote - Besides, I do find all this talk about how much % realistic a render is or not, kind of unrealistic. Who determines the percentage anyway? who determines what's decent lighting anyway?

I determine it, when I'm talking about it. Measuring realism is not objectively quantitative, but I can say with some certainty that I can grade things on a continuum, and that I have no problem saying that on a scale of 100, where 100 is perfection - no deviation from reality, that I put most Poser users around 25, I'm around 70, most people at CGSociety are closer to 90, and Davy Jones in Pirates of the Caribbean was a 98.

Not to be offensive, but after looking at your gallery here (using you're own judging standard), I would rate your stuff, when it comes to realism, at 25 like most other poser users. There are many others that show a lot more realistic poser images in their galleries then what's shown in yours. You may have other galleries somewhere else, but I can only judge by the galleries shown here and that sure doesn't justify giving you a 70, not by far. If I had to go by your gallery here I wouldn't even ask your advice on this matter at all, but turn to others for expertise and advice instead.

Artwork and 3DToons items, create the perfect place for you toon and other figures!

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Due to the childish TOS changes, I'm not allowed to link to my other products outside of Rendo anymore :(

Food for thought.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZw0dfLmLk