Monthly Archives: January 2018

Here’s the gist of an amusing recent academic paper which claimed to be a ‘critique’ of Poser and DAZ Studio. I’ll spare these clueless academics the exposure by name. In plain English, they were claiming that Poser and DAZ can’t do more than standard body shapes…

“each piece of [such] software shares similar gaps in the ability to create avatars outside of normative anatomical frameworks. Acknowledging the limitations of [these] current software models, our research aims to create software that expands the affordances and usability of human avatar software for creative purposes.”

Have these idiots ever even heard of morphs, have they ever seen the Renderotica store? They obviously have no clue about what Poser and DAZ can do with a figure. The actual ‘critique’ is fleeting so my guess is that they looked at the software for all of seven microseconds, before condemning it out of hand as insufficient — and claiming they need to make their own software. Right… good luck with that one. Apparently their paper was presented at DiGRA. I’m surprised they weren’t laughed out of the hall. They’re located at Goldsmiths, of course. The place really does seem to deserve its dismal reputation for producing unemployable jargon-spouting posers.