Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Curious Labs, Inc.
EAN: 0814956011061
Format: CD-ROM
Weight: 100 hundredths-pounds
Label: Curious Labs, Inc.
Manufacturer: Curious Labs, Inc.
Packaged Height: 260 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 992 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 251 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 787 hundredths-inches
Platform: Windows 2000
Platform: Windows XP
Publisher: Curious Labs, Inc.
Release Date: 2005-03-26
Studio: Curious Labs, Inc.
Feature:
- New Animation palette and Keyframe controls animate figures, props, cameras, lights, and even materials
- Render out for any medium of your choice - many styles available - Photorealism, cartoon, sketch, Flash, wireframe, silhouette and more
- Add dynamic hair and cloth to your figure - they're dynamic and will move with your figure, even reacting to wind in animations
- High-resolution, fully rigged Male, Female, Boy and Girl figures in preset poses -- along with props, lights, cameras, accessories and materials
- Also features new OpenGL previews, enhanced cartoon imagery rendering and improved Flash support
Product Description:
Poser 6 delivers the power of interactive 3D figure design, offering infinite opportunities to portray human diversity, form and expression. Whether you create for print, animation or the web, there's always a need to integrate the human form -- with this powerful tool you can design any figure you can imagine. An intuitive 3D toolset allows you to scale and manipulate individual body parts, design facial expressions, and pose figures. Design with the human form for art, illustration, animation, comics, web, print, education, medical visualization, games, storyboarding and more!
Customer Reviews:
2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
 When you need life-like humans, toons ,or animals fast without hours or weeks of 3d modeling, 2006-06-07
I started with POSER 5 and instantly loved it so I got version 6. My main interest was toon 3d characters to add to funny video shorts I create to put as intro and skits in wedding and other videos.
I have been hobbying with 3d software for a while and most pacages have a bit of a learning curve. If you want human-like characters you must make them yourself which is called modeling. Then you must give the model a bone structure which is called rigging. Then you must add textures or skin color to the model. Then you must add lights and cameras and etc.Its a lot like sculpting with clay except its done from your computer screen. All this requires that you learn the tools in the software that allows you to do these things which all adds up to a big learning curve.
Poser allows you to skip the time consuming modeling, rigging, and texturing part by providing ready made models with the software or you can buy them from various places. All you have to do is animate them.
Animating the model realistically is a challenge. This is the part the software does not do for you. It requires some foundation Knowledge of the principles of animation. As you move the model using the rigged controls the software tries to interpret what you are doing. It does not always make the model move the way you intend. This is when you must use the tools in the software to make adjustments so that the models behave the way you want. That is the hard part that takes practice and learning what tool does what.
The manual that comes with Poser shows you the tools but doesn't really help in understanding how or when to use them. It helps to see videos such as one by Jeff Lew which does not use Poser but explains the fundamental tools used in most 3d software to animate characters.
Poser 6 could also use some improvents in the speed of its render engine and an easier way to create custom characters.(Check the demo of "SPORE" from the creator of "THE SIMS")
Over all I love it and have no crash problems on my six year old computer running Windows XP with 798mb RAM.
Whats really sweet is transporting Poser 6 characters into Vue 5 Infinite software environments. But thats another review.
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