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Binding: DVD-ROMBrand: Smith Micro Software Inc. EAN: 0717103892288 Format: DVD-ROM Item Dimensions: Label: Smith Micro Software Inc. Manufacturer: Smith Micro Software Inc. Model: PSR8HBX2 MPN: PSR8HBX2 Platform: Windows Vista, Mac OS X Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Windows XP Publisher: Smith Micro Software Inc. Release Date: September 01, 2009 Studio: Smith Micro Software Inc. Features:
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Editorial Review: Product Description: Poser 8 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. Along with 8 brand new 3D humans, Poser 8 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 dependant 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 8 has been performance optimized so you can pose your characters and render them faster on today's multiple processor systems. 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! Cross Body Part Morph Tool Indirect Illumination for Global Illumination effects Improved-rigging system for better bending characters Improved OpenGL real time scene preview displays up to 8 lights more realistic lighting Physically correct light attenuation for more accurate light falloff Tone mapping and Exposure control for more accurate brightness and luminance Normal Mapping support at render time Performance optimizations for posing and rendering improvements on multi-processor systems Wardrobe Wizard to fit existing clothing items onto new figures wxPython support pro Amazon.com Product Description: Poser 8 is the world's most complete solution for creating art and animation with 3D characters. With Poser, it's easy to make 3D art. Poser includes over 2.5 gigabytes of ready-to-pose human and animal figures, textures, props and 3D scene elements. Generate new characters from your facial photographs. Add hair and clothing. Dress Poser's virtual stage with props, lights and cameras to build 3D scenes. Animate and render your scene into photorealistic images and video for web, print, and film projects. Export 3D figures to add characters to other 3D applications. Artists, hobbyists, illustrators and animators--get creative with Poser!
Easily Create 3D Character Art and AnimationPoser 8 is better than ever Along with 8 brand new 3D humans, Poser 8 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 dependant 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 8 has been performance optimized so you can pose your characters and render them faster on today's multiple processor systems. Poser 8 includes:
8 new figures The new set of eight 3D humans included with Poser 8 are the most advanced figures ever included with the application, and are a showcase for new Poser 8 features. Built from scratch, the figures are performance optimized for the polygon count and have custom photorealistic textures. Rigged using Poser 8's new multiple sphere and capsule fall off zone technology, problematic joints such as hips and shoulders now bend with more realism than any figure on the market. By using the new Dependent Parameter tool to link deformers to specific joint positions, areas such as knees, elbows, chest and collar joints have smoother folds, less stretching and more realism. The new Poser 8 figures are offered in four pairs of male/female couples with European features, African features, Asian features and Hispanic features. The Poser 8 new figures are fully compliant with the Face Room, the Walk Designer and Talk Designer, and via the use of Wardrobe Wizard, much of the included legacy clothing content has been converted to work directly on the figures. ~1.5GB of new Poser 8 Content In addition to the new set of figures, Poser 8 includes an array of new content supplied by third party partners as well content created by the Smith Micro team of 3D artists. A new art-school inspired default manikin opens each new scene, and will serve as a remarkable reference figure for artists. Fully articulated human skeletons that match the male and female figures body topology are included. Various new poses, animations, light sets, props, and accessories to help new users get started are included in the Poser 8 content installer. Poser 8 also includes an additional 1.5GB of legacy Poser 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 content. New User Interface Poser 8 offers a new evolved user interface, preserving the elements that Poser users are accustomed to, while presenting them in a more concise layout that takes better advantage of various screen resolutions. The new layout produces a cleaner work environment so artists can focus on the project. All controls are presented in floating palettes that can be docked for consistency, session to session, or floated to free up space. Dependent Parameters Poser 8 unlocks an advanced user secret with the new Dependent Parameter palette. Poser 8 lets the artist create new Master Parameters or turn any existing Parameter into a Master Parameter that can drive any other editable parameters in the scene. Complex interactions can be created such as Full Body Morphs, Partial Body Morphs, Advanced Body Controls, Joint Controlled Morph Targets, Joint Controlled Deformers and Parameter Controlled Scene Assets. Indirect Lighting By bouncing light and color from object to adjacent object in a scene, Poser 8's Global Illumination system can render images that appear so realistic they can fool the untrained eye into thinking the images are photos rather than 3D renderings. OpenGL Preview Improvements Preview now displays up to 8 lights and their accumulated values, sorted by intensity. The light properties controller allows you to select each light you wish to illuminate in the scene preview. Content Management System / Library The new library presents content by category, but with a tighter list view with expanding previews and additional data for each content item. Content items can be loaded into the scene using the traditional Poser UI controls or can now be dragged directly from the Library into the scene. The Poser 8 Library also supports keyword search. Type in a keyword to find exactly what you looking for. Add any selected items to your favorites. Cross Body Part Morph Creation With Poser 8 comes a significant improvement to the current Morphing Tool. Now you can dial in a Morph Brush and paint morphs across body parts. Easily create effects such as muscle bulges, scales, bumps, horns, veins or wounds; it's only limited by your imagination.
Improved Rigging System Poser 8 has improved upon the existing joint Falloff Zone rigging system by adding any number of new zones to a joint, while adding a new capsule shape to the existing sphere, and allowing the rigger to either multiply or add the Falloff Zone values. This system will permit figure creators to rig challenging areas such as hips and shoulders with more precision, yielding better bending figures. Tone Mapping and Exposure Tone Mapping helps control very bright and dark areas in an image to produce better, less blown out final renderings with deeper contrast. The feature is very useful, helping to bring the brightest areas back into a reproducible range. Two modes of Tone Mapping are available for differing effects: Exponential Tone Mapping and HSV Tone Mapping. Exposure values are editable when either Exponential or HSV Tone Mapping is selected. Physically Correct Light Falloff For Spot and Point lights, Poser 8 lets users attenuate (control) falloff to more closely reproduce real-world light behaviors. Constant falloff replicates the previous Poser behavior, and Inverse Linear and Inverse Square add two new methods for getting light to appear more realistic. Normal Mapping Normal Mapping is a resource-efficient technique to add the appearance of complexity and surface detail to 3D objects. It can transform object surfaces, making them appear more intricate than they actually are, without the added overhead of polygonal detail. This saves designers valuable time and offers increased creative flexibility by allowing faster and more light-weight computation of rendered results. Performance Optimizations
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Poser provides a number of professional users with a fast, easy to access resource for 3D humans, animals, and other scene assets. Professional users include: Architectural illustrators, industrial designers, medical illustrators, graphic designers, editorial illustrators, book illustrators, informational graphics, advertising illustration, web illustration, interactive content, story boarding, lighting and theatrical set designers, film/video production 3D hobbyists and enthusiasts who dabble in 3D for personal satisfaction, experiment with Poser to gain 3D experience, and may use Poser to expand into new careers, or create a graphic novel, sci-fi art, fantasy art, or develop a screen play. Comic book creators and graphic novelists use Poser render images and animations to create their own titles. Single images, multiple page comics and graphic novels delivered via print and digital media are a great use of Poser. If you work with other 3D applications such as Max, Maya, Cinema 4D, Modo, Lightwave, Truespace, Bruce, or Vue; Poser is a perfect way to include 3D character content you're your projects. Art students looking to gain practical 3D animation experience hone their skills working with Poser characters as part of course work, in art school classes or for extra-curricular experience. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Poser is Turning 3d Animation into a Pretty Good Hobby for MeI love this program, but I feel I have to mention that when they say you can "easily create 3D character art and animation," that that's a bit of a misnomer. For me there was a long learning curve, but it was worth it. The interface doesn't get in the way of your creation and that's good. The program doesn't hog up my computer and that's good, too. I've had the program for a couple months now and worked with it for maybe a half hour on average every day and now I feel that I'm well on ... Read More Rating: - A step up, tho still your typical 'Poser'I have experience with both Poser 4 and 7, so I know the typical ways Poser is treated and supported by it's creators. Rather than give a "It's great/ it sucks" review, I'll show you what I feel are the pros and cons compared to my experience in past versions. The short version: Works just as well as past Poser programs. If you're new and willing to learn, buy a 'how to' book and you will love it. If you're an old pro, this iteration will treat you just as well as it's predecessors, ... Read More Rating: - Hard to Learn, But it Looks Worth the EffortOthers have said it, but I'll repeat it, this program requires effort, but I think in the end it'll have been worth it. I know it took me forever to get friendly with Photoshop. I am nowhere near being friendly with Poser, but I don't think it's any harder to learn, though it looks like it might be a bit tedious creating animations. Tedious, but interesting. So far I've just done faces, no actual animations. If you get this program there is a multitude of models and other content you can ... Read More Rating:  - Robust software which is not for the faint of heartI've been in the IT profession for many, many years. I have not done professional video production, but I have edited many home and small business videos, and consider myself fairly tech savvy having used Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator with ease. I figured I would try my hand at some rudimentary video animation. Not so fast. I found this program EXTREMELY difficult to use and, judging from the other reviews, I am not alone in this opinion. If you have little to no previous ... Read More Rating: - Amazing potential but not for the uninitiatedI do multimedia design for literacy curriculum and thought this might be a very interesting way of personalizing the content significantly more than I've done before. I don't, however, do this work as my full time job, so I wasn't able to spend a significant amount of time with learning software, nor do I have a background in using previous versions of Poser or similar programs. I do know video software and have used the Adobe and old Micromedia, now Adobe, software fairly regularly, so ... Read More Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display 
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