Poser 4

by MetaCreations

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3.3 pounds
• ASIN: B00001OX4E
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 23, 2010
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,614 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Poser is an easy-to-use animation tool, with dozens and dozens of prebuilt models of men, woman, children, animals, props, and assorted clothes and objects. Unlike many 3-D animation programs, though, Poser doesn't require massive amounts of memory or a warp-speed processor. It runs well on machines with modest amounts of RAM and 200 MHz processors, although it does consume quite a bit of disk space (about 600 MB on a Mac and about 350 MB on a PC).

Experienced 3-D users will feel limited by Poser's interface (only one view window at a time) and by its lack of a modeler, but the novice user will feel a thrill the first time they make a character dance, walk, and otherwise jiggle--much like the "Dancing Baby" seen ubiquitously on the Internet a while back.

Poser can output to a variety of common formats, such as QuickTime on a Mac or AVI on a Windows PC, and it can import models in DXF and OBJ formats. It's possible to build models in other programs and import them to Poser, but setting up the skeleton hierarchy is cumbersome.

Poser's strongest feature is the natural media render engine. MetaCreations has built on its experience from the wonderful program Painter and brought that handmade look into Poser. The number of variables one can tweak is impressive: sketch style, line density, line width, paper texture, etc.

A solid manual accompanies the program, and while a little pricey for a novice-level application, Poser is a great tool for getting into computer-animation rendering of 3-D humans. --Mike Caputo

Amazon.com Product Description

Poser 4 is a 3-D character animation-and-design tool for digital artists and animators. From a diverse collection of fully articulated, 3-D human and animal models, and a library of settings and swappable clothing, users create movies, images, and posed 3-D figures. With Poser's unique interface, posing and animating are fast and easy. Generate movies and 2-D graphics from your posed models for content in Web, print, and video projects. Add life to your 3-D worlds using exported, posed figures. For computer artists and hobbyists alike, Poser 4 generates dynamic, figure-based content while providing a valuable introduction to 3-D.

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