Poser, an evil tool for Character animation?

Thoughtout my reserach on finding the most time efficent way of creating a 3D Mongolian dancer for animation, I stumbled across a lot of Poser sites. I used Poser before. In fact I started playing with it on and offer since the first version. It's really amazing how Poser 5 really the current status, capable of creating stunning 3D human figure.

Yet, during the process of trying to figure out the best way to import Poser model into 3DStudioMax, I found out that majority of the 3D Studio Max realted forum curse Poser as an evil tool, a dirty word, a tool only for 3D animation-designer-wanna-be.

I personally think that Poser is never meant to be the end of 3D animation, that you simply cannot do anything more than a very nice pose of a human, but it's never the less a very good learning tool, and save me time from starting from scratch.

In addition, there is a big advantage to my project using Poser:There are a lot of pretty look Asian model for Poser.
The among of Asian modeDuringl for Poser is fantastic thanks to a lot of Poser fan in Japan who are willing to share their hardwork to the English speaking world. They are the heroes :-D . Here's some of the site that I probably will use for my project:

- www.eurus.dti.ne.jp/~masasi/Service/indexE.html
- digitalbabes2.com/~yamato/CostumeFesta.html
- www.juno.dti.ne.jp/~yamato-k/Penthousecollection.html

Of course, I need to keep reminding myself not drilling too much into Poser. It's just a short-cut modeling tool to me.