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Price: $449.00 Prices subject to change.Brand: Curious Labs, Inc. EAN: 0814956004018 Format: CD-ROM Label: Curious Labs, Inc. Manufacturer: Curious Labs, Inc. Number Of Items: 1 Platform: Windows XP, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me Publisher: Curious Labs, Inc. Release Date: September 07, 2002 Studio: Curious Labs, Inc. Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: Whether you're a 3-D novice or an experienced digital artist, Poser 5 makes it extraordinarily easy to create complete 3-D character stills and animations. Yet while this new edition definitely has advantages over previous versions, it is not without its glitches. Pay attention to the system requirements on install. This program needs room and power. With more than the recommended 256 MB of RAM, rendering seems a bit sluggish in spite of the new FireFly micropolygon-based rendering engine. Though considering all Poser 5 does, immediate rendering of complex 3-D objects might be asking a bit much. Working in Poser 5 is remarkably simple considering the capabilities of the software. The workspace is clean and easily customizable, with a majority of the tools accessible from floating palettes and windows. A collapsible library palette gives you fast access to all available content such as figures, poses, faces, and expressions. Plus, there is an entire CD of additional content including sound files, props, textures, templates, samples, and demos. The interface is broken down into different rooms: Pose, Material, Face, Hair, Cloth, Setup, and Content. The new Face Room lets you map any face onto a 3-D head using just front and side photos of someone's face. Use the Hair Room to grow actual 3-D hair for figures in just a few steps. Go to the Cloth Room and convert objects into fully dynamic cloth with complete control of behavior. A full, revised reference manual is included. So many things are under your control, it's hard not to want to tweak every little detail. However, on more than one occasion making an adjustment caused the software to lock up and quit. At other times, it would complete the changes, but the document window would be blank, making it necessary to close and reopen the program to continue work. Instability issues aside, Poser 5 is loaded with fun tools, content, and utilities, making an upgrade worthwhile for serious users. Ease of use makes it a good choice for beginners and hobbyists as well. --Joshua Goldman Amazon.com Product Description: Poser 5 is an ideal 3-D character design and animation tool for artists and animators. Create 3-D figures using a diverse collection of ready-to-use 3-D human and animal models. Poser's innovative interface makes figure design, posing, and animating fast and easy. Map facial photos, grow and style dynamic hair, and create dynamic cloth to add extraordinary realism to your figure. Quickly output movies and images from your posed figures for content in Web, print, and video projects. Add life to your 3-D worlds using exported, posed figures. For those new to 3-D, digital artists, and hobbyists alike, Poser 5 is easy to learn and quickly generates fast and dynamic results. Poser 5 delivers a stunning host of new tools including Facial Photo-mapping, Dynamic Strand-based Hair, Dynamic Cloth, new Figures, and FireFly, Poser 5's powerful new renderer. Use Morph Putty to directly manipulate facial expressions. Create realistic dynamic cloth and make it flow and drape around any object in your scene. Build powerful node-based material shaders to create any material texture you can imagine. The Poser 5 Content CD contains a host of extras, including props and textures. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A powerful toolI am a hobby illustrator who runs the gamut over many types of art, traditional and digital. Originally, I got Poser 3 free in a magazine. I bought a discount copy of Poser 5 from here, and had no problems. Within a half hour I'd installed the software and downloaded a bunch of free props from Daz3d, renderotica, etc. Now, for all purpose 3D, you need a more versatile tool. Like Caligari TrueSpace, one I'll vouch for. Or Maya, Lightwave, if you have a few thousand to ... Read More Rating:  - fun software to play withI have used this software and have created a lot of computer generated photos with it. It was easy and fun. Rating: - Poser 5 is an incredible piece of software!Ever since I bought and started using Poser 5, I have been impressed with it, and after over a year of messing around with it, I still am. I have been creating my own characters with it, designing my own morphs (that is, modifications to parts of the figure either for effect or to enhance it), and I am now fully poised to start creating my own figures from scratch. Poser 5 is an older piece of software from Curious Labs. I think it is now owned by DAZ Productions which also owns Carrara, ... Read More Rating: - Would have 5 stars except for the instruction book.I am in agreement with many reviews here. Book that comes with program.. completely useless and a very dry read at that. I got this program and out of the box was very intimidated... but a year later and my renders are simply stunning. I have only just started working with the cloth room and making my own animations. Renderosity.com and DAZ3D.com have great tutorials done by people who have worked with the program and are basically all the help you need. They also have fanstatic FREE STUFF sections ... Read More Rating: - Confusing but never boring.After using Poser 5 for quite some time now I still find it a little hard to use some of the functions( such as the cloth room and the hair room). I must admit that I do find it a challenge to figure out but I wouldn't have missed the opportunity to purchase it for anything. I have had so much fun with it that I use it at least 4 to 5 times a week. With more time and effort I intend to master it and create even more works of art. Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display 
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