I'm into Computer Graphics and Animation since say 1978, having ascii-art Snoopy walking around over all (=2) admin monitors onto the Uni's Cyber mainframe. Punched tape, punched cards and printed output, those times. Then the mono-green Tektronix graphics terminals came around, and in 1985 I purchased my own personal mini-frame (PC).

Since then computing has hardly improved anymore, haha. Each new machine costed as much as the existing one, each final render took about two days and each harddisk had the capacity of say 1000 MS Word installments. Okay, we've go a mouse, and colored screens, and iconic interface and plug & play / pray and images got larger and internet and nowadays my PC looks like an oversized Mobile Phone, but that's about it.

I guess I picked Poser 1 from a floppy attached to a magazine, so my story is something between Vilters and Dr Geep. I still have it, and it still runs okay on my super mega turbo box. Some details on http://www.main.artbeeweb.nl/?page_id=2 .
Sometimes I launch it, especially after reading all those posts complaining and fulminating on Posers advanced features. And smile.  

I like making animations on music. 2015 will bring me a full 5 min Octane rendered on. Here's the first published still from it: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=2585883  . In order to make it, I had to master dynamic cloth and hair, advanced materials, external rendering and that gave rise to my Missing Manuals website, forum contributions and more. Now I only have to master good posing ...

All the best, see ya !

(@Boni: Yara & Yuki are still doing fine and say hi ! ) 

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Usually I'm wrong. But to be effective and efficient, I don't need to be correct or accurate.

visit www.aRtBeeWeb.nl (works) or Missing Manuals (tutorials & reviews) - both need an update though