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Poser is the world's most complete solution for creating art and animation using 3D characters. With Poser, it's easy to make 3D art, whether you're an experienced artist or you're dabbling in graphics for the very first time. Poser includes over 2.5 gigabyte of ready-to-pose, fully textured, human and animal figures, basic accessories such as hair, clothing, pose sets, real world props and 3D scene elements so you can start creating 3D character art and animation in minutes.
- Generate new characters from your facial photographs.
- Add hair and clothing.
- Dress Poser's
What's New
Version 9.0:
- Along with 8 brand new 3D humans, Poser 9 includes an improved user interface to maximize your workspace while providing better workflow, a new search-enabled library so you can find, organize and use your content easier, a dependent parameter tool that lets you teach objects in the scene to interact with each other, cross body morph brushes to smoothly sculpt a figure across every body part, new photorealistic rendering features that more accurately reproduce light and shadows, and improved character rigging for even better character bending. To save time, Poser 9 has been performance optimized so you can pose your characters and render them faster on today's multiple processor systems.
Version 9.0:
- Along with 8 brand new 3D humans, Poser 9 includes an improved user interface to maximize your workspace while providing better workflow, a new search-enabled library so you can find, organize and use your content easier, a dependent parameter tool that lets you teach objects in the scene to interact with each other, cross body morph brushes to smoothly sculpt a figure across every more...
Requirements
- PPC / Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 or later
- 1GB system RAM
- OpenGL enabled graphics card or chipset recommended (recent NVIDIA GeForce and ATI Radeon preferred)
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| Downloads:36,954 |
| Version Downloads:1,297 |
| Type:Multimedia & Design : Animation |
| License:Demo |
| Date:24 May 2010 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price: $249.99 |
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Poser is the world's most complete solution for creating art and animation using 3D characters. With Poser, it's easy to make 3D art, whether you're an experienced artist or you're dabbling in graphics for the very first time. Poser includes over 2.5 gigabyte of ready-to-pose, fully textured, human and animal figures, basic accessories such as hair, clothing, pose sets, real world props and 3D scene elements so you can start creating 3D character art and animation in minutes.
If you're a serious artist, illustrator or animator or simply dream of playing with 3D characters, you'll love getting creative with Poser 8!
- Generate new characters from your facial photographs.
- Add hair and clothing.
- Dress Poser's virtual stage with props, lights and cameras to construct 3D scenes.
- Automatically generate walking or running animations and talking characters.
- Import motion capture files for even more animated realism.
- Animate lights and cameras, and then render your scene into photorealistic images and video for web, print, and film projects.
- Export 3D figures to add characters to other 3D applications.
If you're a serious artist, illustrator or animator or simply dream of playing with 3D characters, you'll love getting creative with Poser 8!
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Kihoalu reviewed on 01 Mar 2011
Looking at rev 8 - it doesn't seem like a big step forward.
The PRO version is the one you'd want, if any - though there are cheaper versions which make creating your own characters a problem.
I can't see spending this kind of money for the Pro version for what you get. I got the version 7 at a discount & don't feel that was money well spent.
Its horrifically slow. It uses triangles vs the the quad meshes supported by Blender & some other programs, which then make them frustrating to use, though the core Poser models are pretty well made.
If you are going to drop any human model into an industrial scene to represent people - you kinda want them clothed. At least Poser gives you this option with some rudimentary clothing.
In a lot of ways, some of these applications feel like you are a teenage gamer playing with Barbies, instead of being a tool that any serious animator or designer would wish to use.
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Drtyrell969 reviewed on 21 Aug 2010
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machspeed5 reviewed on 08 Sep 2007
First thing you'll notice is that it's slow. dead slow. Loading certain figures can take over a minute. The library's format and structure is ancient and is a serious PIA when you begin to install third party content. (DAZ, Renderosity) Expect countless folders with names beginning with !!! because content developers are fighting for dominance within your installation. You'll shake your head in disbelief and spend countless hours reorganizing folders.
The content community however, for clothes, characters etc. is very much alive and active. There are legions of fans, and I for one atribute this to the programs relative ease of use. While definitely sporting an unconventional/proprietary UI is of much debate, i found it easy to use. Though, the more serious you become with it , the more you'll realize it's limitations. It was designed from the ground up to be a simple application, and this is no longer in it's favour.
It feels as though the core program has aged and introduced hacks as a means of low-budget feature evolution. MATs, python scripts, etc.
Thanks to e-frontier for continuing to make a mac version, but this is one program that's due for a MAJOR overhaul or complete rewrite. (ha good luck)
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There are hundreds of gigs of content available online, and the commercial grade content is considerably less expensive than top-tier, and in many cases better. The community is a very sharing one, and there is lots of free stuff to be had.
Most of the negative responses I see here are no doubt by people who expected to learn the process overnight. I see people complaining about using it in manners that aren't the correct way to use it.
Plus it's directly compatible with Vue if a more powerful rendering engine is needed (lighting, 3D geometry, etc). With 7.0 out, it is UB and takes advantage of multi-core processing.
It's great piece of software if you want to take the time to learn it and set it up correctly. If you want a quick study in 3D that takes care of itself, look elsewhere. Poser is just too complex for those seeking instant gratification.
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Anonymous reviewed on 20 Nov 2005
Free models from DAZ are cool: Victoria and Michael.
Some commercial models are truly amazing: Yaara (by As Shanim), Alina (by DM)...
The main problem is that it is so slow that it is close to be unusable even of a powerful CPU. It is slow on Panther and slow on the dog Tiger. Windows version is a bit faster, but still a pain to use. Ease of use 1/5 is for that: too slow.
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Anything beyond that is misleading for DAZ Studio.
I'm not sold that DAZ is any good as an alternative to Poser either.
Though I could not recommend Poser in the slightest. Definitely not at the kind of money its being sold for.
Anonymous reviewed on 07 Nov 2005
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Tried it and it works as smooth as... well, you know!
Anonymous reviewed on 15 Sep 2005
hopefully it'll put a boot up poser to fix some bugs!
Anonymous reviewed on 15 Sep 2005
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2r reviewed on 03 Sep 2005
The GUI is very mid 90s "innovative". It works in a way, but it's very cluttered and takes up too much screen real estate.
The file structure is a total disaster and installing new files, and finding them, is a test of patience.
Poser 6 is also very unstable, unresponsive and slow, and should never have been released in this state. It's hardly even a beta.
This is all a pity, because Poser is a lot of fun - or rather it used to be, therefore I'll stick to Poser 5. Buying Poser 6 is a total vaste of money.
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Heilei rated on 06 Apr 2011