We can go over all the details endlessly, but instead of thinking in limitations, it's also possible to think in possibilities. I've been working with Poser for 25 years. I know what it can and can't do. I know how to put a scene together, light it and enhance it in a photo editor. I even made several animations and movies of several minutes using Poser.

The point I'm trying to make is that I'm frustrated with the lack of progress in Poser. From Poser 12 to 13 the major upgrade for me was render speed. But other than that I've seen hardly any real new features since I bought Poser 12 in February 2021. Only very small incremental improvements.

Poser is a wonderful tool to put a scene together in minute detail. It does a reasonably good job at texturing and lighting. It's mediocre at draping fabric and to my horror that feature has now been deleted from Poser 14 completely. It’s very very hard to replicate soft materials, like flesh. And poser is absolutely horrible at doing hair. Overall the unprocessed output often looks ‘plastic’ and needs major post production to bring it to life.

AI is absolutely amazing at doing textures, skin, hair, lighting, flames, etc. But the randomness is making it hard to work with it if you’re looking for a specific result. Also AI doesn’t know what’s outside the frame. It even has trouble interpreting things that are only partially within the frame. If AI can’t make sense of something it makes thing up (often badly), while in Poser I can create shadows from things that are completely outside the frame, because it knows there’s an object there.

In my view putting the best of these worlds together would be amazing and ground breaking.

And on the legality of things: If I can train (lora) models using my own material on my own PC, so can the developers of the Poser team. I think there should be plenty of material available that is legal to use. You can even create the material yourself.

Meanwhile I’m trying to learn and adopt this new AI technology, to learn something new and improve what I make. Because if I just do what I did, I get what I got, and that’s not satisfying my desire for progress.

And once again: I hope the Poser team will come up with a product that shows real progress and excites customers.

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And yes, I do know how to use Poser and light a scene ;-)

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