Have one to sell? Sell yours here
Poser 6 and Shade LE Bundle (Mac)
 
See larger image
 

Poser 6 and Shade LE Bundle (Mac)

by Curious Labs, Inc.
Mac OS X
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)


Currently unavailable.
We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock.



System Requirements

  • Platform:   Mac OS X
  • Media: CD-ROM
  • Item Quantity: 1

Product Features

  • New Shadow Catcher feature enables you to separate shadows from their underlying surface, and put them virtually anywhere
  • Expand your cartoon universe with Toon Outline -- it draws an outline around the edges of cartoon images
  • Ambient occlusion brings your figures to life with a natural lighting environment
  • Design and pose pre-rigged figures, or create original figures to suit your needs -- the large library of content and photorealistic textures help you create professional-quality imagery and movies
  • Use the Camera controls like a film director would -- set up your ideal camera shots for each image or animation frame

Product Details

  • Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
  • Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
  • ASIN: B0009ZHG4E
  • Item model number: PSR-M60-DE-DR
  • Date first available at Amazon.com: August 9, 2005
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,570 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com

Poser 6 brings the art of figure design and posing right to your desktop, with an innovative UI to make working with the human form easily accessible. Included human and animal models come ready for you to start designing and posing immediately. You can click-and-drag to interactively sculpt faces, pose body parts, or create various ethnic varieties. For those who require finer control, full body morphs, facial expression morphs, and bone rigging are easily accessible for any figure. All features and models are provided in a natural 3D environment for realistic depth, lighting and shadowing on any figure in any pose. You can pose any figure by clicking and dragging a body part. With Document Display Styles you can view and design your figure in silhouette, outline, wireframe, textured, and more. The program lets you manipulate individual body parts, including the full body, facial expressions and fully articulated hands, and interactively sculpt and design figures in real time, including the body and facial expressions. Object-level Collision Detection helps with posing and avoids collisions when animating.

What's New in Poser 6?
  • New Figures
    Poser 6 introduces James and Jessi, new figures with amazing realism to bring a new level of photorealstic content to your artwork. Both figures accurately depict the human form, have lifelike skin textures, and full morph target sets to design your own custom figures with facial expressions. Also included are new boy and girl children figures, Ben and Kate, who complete the new Poser family. The new Poser figures come with photorealistic texture maps, full body morphs, facial expression morphs, and are fully rigged for posing.
  • More Content
    Poser's Content Paradise now includes a host of top content providers, to bring you a diverse range of Poser 6 models, textures, poses, character packs, utilities and free stuff. A redesigned interface makes finding Poser content faster and easier than ever before.
  • Enhanced UI
    Poser's innovative UI is centered on a productive room-based environment. Individual Pose, Setup, Materials, Hair and Cloth rooms provide easy feature access for each step in the creative process. In addition to rooms, Poser uses floating palettes and windows. You can customize your Poser workspace by hiding/displaying and relocating controls anywhere you like. You can even save up to nine different screen configurations for the entire Poser workspace.
  • Shadow Catching
    Poser 6 introduces several new features to support artists in rendering more true to life shadow effects. For example the NEW Shadow Catcher feature enables you to separate shadows from their underlying surface, and put them virtually anywhere. These new features make image composition and integrating 3D figures into graphic design easier.
  • New Toon Outlines
    The New Toon Outline feature uses post-processing during rendering to draw an outline around the edges of cartoon images. Poser 6 offers customizable outline styles, enabling you to further personalize your cartoon shading look. Add a distinctive style to any cartoon imagery for comics. Now you have the choice to add outlines to any cartoon imagery you create with Poser. This feature's effect is most dramatic when combined with a cartoon shader node. Configurable Cartoon Shading preview styles allow you to approximate the final render results as you work.
  • OpenGL
    OpenGL delivers accelerated performance when previewing anything from cartoon to photorealistic 3D figures. Now you can display vivid textures and lighting in real-time when designing figures. You can even render high resolution images using the OpenGL Preview renderer. There are accelerated previews for your 3D scenes, so you can see vivid textures and lighting in real-time. This feature works with all Document Display Styles, including wireframe, cartoon, and more. You can render out your 3D scene display with the OpenGL Preview renderer, and easily switch between SreeD Software and OpenGL Hardware for scene previews--which means you can maximize your system’s resources and spend your time creating rather than waiting.
  • New Ambient Occlusion
    Ambient Occlusion makes figures seem as though they are in the natural lighting environment of the real world. Ambient Occlusion is available on every light to create accurate soft shadow effects, thus giving scenes a new degree of realism. The new Ambient Occlusion shader node makes figures and objects appear as though they are in a natural lighting environment. Ambient Occlusion darkens surfaces within a scene whose exposure to light is blocked by other objects. This effect uses raytracing to calculate the degree to which other objects within a scene occlude the ambient light of a surface at a given point. Surfaces with more occlusion will be rendered as darker than surfaces with little or no occlusion. You can set Ambient Occlusion lighting for all objects, or select lighting effects focused on specific parts of your scene.
Meet James and Jessi
Expand your cartoon
universe with Toon Outline
Ambient occlusion brings
your figures to life

More About Poser

  • Photorealism
    Poser 6 allows you to quickly design and pose pre-rigged figures, or create original figures to suit your needs. With professional lighting effects and shading materials, a large library of content and photorealistic textures, you can create professional-quality imagery and movies. You can also integrate with other 3D applications, or composite photorealistic imagery into your favorite image editing or motion graphics programs. Just some of the features in Poser 6 include: accurate human male, female and children 3D models; large libraries of content included; quick design/pose pre-rigged figures with full morph target sets; realistic perspective in 3D space; and professional lighting effects and procedural shader material trees
  • Camera Controls
    Cameras represent your window into the Poser workspace. You can use them as a director would, to set up your ideal camera shots for each image or animation frame. Or, you can take advantage of the benefit that comes with 3D work, of being able to render a scene from multiple angles. In either case, Poser 6 offers multiple configurable cameras to facilitate your creative workflow. Poser includes a variety of independent cameras for viewing your scene, and a four-pane camera view. All are easily controlled with an innovative Trackball control for intuitive scene setup.
  • Realistic Lighting
    Lighting is an essential component of any 3D image. Lights add colors, cast shadows, create specific effects, and set the tone for your scene. Poser 6's light controls allow you to add and individually configure different types of light sources in your Poser scene. When these light configuration options are combined with Poser 6's powerful rendering tools, the lighting possibilities are unlimited.
  • Bone Rigging
    Create new, fully poseable Poser figures from any 3D object in a few easy steps. Import 3D geometry, break it into body parts and generate new Poser figures. You can even create Inverse Kinematics (IK) chains. Inverse Kinematics (IK) delivers natural character motion by modeling the hierarchical interactions of bones and joints, so that when you move a hand, the arm naturally follows.
  • OpenGL Preview
    New OpenGL hardware acceleration offers improved performance with figure Posing and Preview renders. Easily switch between SreeD Software and OpenGL. Hardware rendering for scene previews means you can maximize your system's resources and spend your time creating rather than waiting.
  • Photo-based Facial Mapping
    Want to create a virtual you? Friend? Import facial photos to easily model new characters and create texture maps. Poser's Face Room allows you to create lifelike results by mapping any face onto a 3D head. You can also generate new faces with a button click, or create caricatures for wild characters. Ethnicity, age, and gender parameter controls round out this powerful set of facial tools.

Product Description

Poser 6 brings the art of figure design and posing right to your desktop. Start designing and posing immediately, with new high-resolution, fully rigged male, female, boy and girl 3D figures. The rich content libraries have 9 categories, including a wide variety of figures in various preset poses, as well as props, lights, cameras, accessories and materials. Create personalized heads and textures in the Face Room, by using just two photographs. Bring your scenes to life by animating figures, props, cameras, lights, and even material, and eliminate much of the repetitive work by designing and applying motion cycles. Realistic Lighting - Add colors, cast shadows, create specific effects, and set the tone for your scene Bone Rigging creates fully poseable Poser figures from any 3D object in a few easy steps Inverse Kinematics (IK) delivers natural character motion by modeling the hierarchical interactions of bones and joints New OpenGL hardware acceleration for scene previews, letting you maximize your rendering time Photo-based facial mapping for lifelike facial modeling and texture maps

Tag this product

 (What's this?)
Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items.
Your tags: Add your first tag
 

 

Customer Reviews

2 Reviews
5 star:
 (1)
4 star:    (0)
3 star:
 (1)
2 star:    (0)
1 star:    (0)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
4.0 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars User interface a real problem, January 13, 2007
By 
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Poser 6 and Shade LE Bundle (Mac) (CD-ROM)
Overall, I expect this could be a good product (Poser) but it suffers greatly from a very, very bad user interface (if you're familiar with Cararra, you know what it's like). Unlike most 3D programs, it relies on a single view rather than a 3-axis workspace. This means you spend most of your time shuffling through "rooms" rather than working with your objects. It also makes placing objects harder than it needs to be. The workspace is frankly overdesigned and wastes TONS of screen space for no apparent reason other than to show off their icons, which aren't much to look at to begin with. However, the end product, if you have the patience, is much improved over previous versions (I have Poser 3 from a few years back).

On the other hand, Shade LE is quite good. Comparitively easy to learn and it lets you create pretty decent 3D art for the price. Some of the interface is a bit clunky, but overall I'd give it four stars rather than 3.
Help other customers find the most helpful reviews 
Was this review helpful to you? Yes No


5.0 out of 5 stars Great Deal and entry for 3D BUT..., October 24, 2007
This review is from: Poser 6 and Shade LE Bundle (Mac) (CD-ROM)
Just FYI, e-frontier habitually sells this same package on eBay for $79, 100 bucks cheaper.
Help other customers find the most helpful reviews 
Was this review helpful to you? Yes No

Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
 
 
 
Only search this product's reviews



Customer Discussions

This product's forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 

Search Customer Discussions
Search all Amazon discussions
   
Related forums



Look for Similar Items by Category