Curious Labs Poser
Submittd By: On-Nation Webmaster, August 10, 2003
Update: June 20, 2005..This software package is now owned by e-frontier...Do I ever have a love / hate relationship with this
software program. :) I love the results, and I hate trying to get there
at times. Curious Labs Poser, if you are not familiar with it, is a 3D
modeling program mostly evolving around the human life from. At
one time it was a product of another company named MetaCreations,
which is where I first purchased this product.
My first
version was Poser 2, and which with all due respect it was the most
difficult program I ever got my hands on. The manual was way
ahead of me, and I am assuming many people. Probably because 3D
modeling was still in it's infancy in them days. But being an all
American guy, I just could not resist them nude women models. I
often wonder if the authors of this program kind of knew
that too. But after fumbling around with it, I began
to get the hang of it eventually. Poser however is a program you need to
stay at, and research alot. If you put it away for a month,
you will be clueless all over again.
These days however
it has created quite a cult following, and many web sites
have opened for Poser 3D modeling exclusively. This is great for
a guy like me, because I still need all the help I can get.
Let me descibe briefly what you can do with this cool product.
First off I will be referring to Poser 4, the one I use now.
When it first opens, you will see a model with it's arms
spread apart for a beginning reference point. I thought
about this, and realized that was a good idea. The reason is
that it gives you a visual of every possible pose your
model is capable of. What is also cool is that you can setup
your default start screen anyway you choose. I personally
dont like the default model screen in the center. This is
because of me being right handed, I prefer all the dials, and
other controls to my right side. So I put my model screen
to the far left, and adjust the window to a size I am
comfortable with viewing. Yes, you can adjust that option as
well. Just make sure you save your setup, or it will default
back to the original setup next time you start it.
All
in all this is an amazing product, it can pose virtually
everything right down to the model's toes. It can give
you any skin tone you want, any hair color, and eye color
as well. You can change facial expressions, body size,
design clothes for them, and even put more than one model
on the same palette. Oh, and did I mentions animation? Yup,
you can do that too. For under two hundred bucks for the
complete package it is a far better deal than almost any
other 3D modeling package out there. Try thousands of dollars
for some of them. With Curious Labs at the helm now, I think
you will seeing many more leaps into a better Poser software
package while keeping the price down. Already they have
proven to this author they are planning to support this
product long into the future. Not to take anything away
from the original owners, but they were a bit difficult
to get help from. Perhaps because at the time I purchased
Poser 4 they were already selling it off. I did have a
problem for some time using it until Curious Labs came to
the rescue via Daz Productions (the super sexy Victoria model designers) and
updated my version. So if you still don't believe this is a
great product, wait til you see our completed movie Fireosity :)
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