[TC2]

Well I'm just going to say as someone who is familiar with 3d modeling.

Though with basic poser it's easy to pretty much create any random figure and plop it out into nowhere, It's not very intuitive and sometimes tutorials are difficult to understand and follow.

If you get the hang of poser, what a lot of poser artists don't do is use dynamic lighting and skin textures, which makes their models look fake and plastic.  If you really want to put out a quality project it's going to take at least 9 hours or so.  Also rendering can eat up some time as well, so you'll have to that into consideration, especially if your computer is weak.

Also you would have to get screenshots from the game in order to "composite" the model onto the background.  I'm pretty sure doing something in poser and photoshop can be about equal time depending on the skill level of the user.

[corcarne]

Very nice stuff Corcarne. I think that clinches it for me. With as much time as I spend in a program like photoshop I may as well spend some time in Poser. It seems that with the ability to import settings and such the software can really make anything possible. The background on this scene alone would take me 3 weeks to draw…lol and wouldn't be as good!. I really like the ghoulish little girl in the background. How long does a piece like this take you? How long have you been working with this software?.. Please tell  🙂

The background is indeed borrowed from the RPG "Oblivion". Nevertheless, to pose the already existent figures like Red or the Witch (which took me hours to create), find the correct lighting and shading, spread a little blood and fill the speech bubbles with some exclamations usually takes me at least one hour per render. (The more renders of a scene you do, the easier and faster it gets.) With "Poser" I work for three years now or so – on and off. There is one basic rule: the more money you can spend on figures, clothing, environment and stuff, the better results you get. Unfortunately, of that particular resource I have no surplus. Thus I have to improvise all the time …   

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