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e Frontier Poser 6 - Shade LE Bundle - 3D Figure Design and Animation Solution

4 stars (Not for the casual hobbiest) - Poser is hard. Extremely hard. The manual that comes with the software is poorly written and virtually useless. I recommend the VHS "POSER 5 Demystified", which is relevant to Poser 6 as well. This will help get you started. But even with this, Poser, like all 3D animation programs, is going to require quite a commitment from you. Its VERY TIME CONSUMING. There's just no way around it. Even after you've figured out how to use the software (it took me 6 months of trial and error...and I'm certainly no expert), it can easily take you 8-10 hours to produce a 5 second animation. The problem is that no one can show you "how" to make an animation with Poser. They can only show you how the various tools work (which, as I stated before, the manual fails miserably at). You're going to have to decide what you want to see on the screen, and figure out how to use the software to make that a reality. Example: there are 3 different methods you can use to animate, which give you wildly different results. While the manual tells you what these are and identifies the controls for each, it doesn't tell you which to use and under what circumstances to use them. You're going to have to figure it out on your own. I literally thought the software was broken for the 1st 6 months, because the figures kept moving in unexpected ways. Actually, the software was behaving exactly the way it was supposed to. I understand now that its an asset rather than a liability, because once you learn what you're doing, Poser can add a level of realism that is sorely lacking from a lot of other 3d animation programs. So what do I think of Poser 6? Its amazing. Simply amazing. I would give it 5 stars, except for the crappy manual that comes with it. Curious Labs should design a manual like "The Art of Animation Master", which was brilliantly tailored for the beginner. The downside: content. If you plan on making a contemporary film, this is not a problem. But if...
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Curious Labs Poser 5 for Mac OSX

4 stars (amazing modeling program) - I've barely scratched the surface with Poser 5. I've been using Poser since the first version, and each new release is more full of features than the last. The models and posing abilities of versions 1, 2 and 3 had a variety of flaws, but starting with version 4, Poser has turned into an extremely useful program for anyone who wants to do rendering with the human figure. I gather that some people use Poser to produce final products. I can swear that some of those airline seat information cards use Poser models. I tend to use Poser the way one uses a figure reference guide, to figure out how the bodies are structured, and how perspective works with them. Poser 5 has a nice set of human models, male and female. It also has a few animals. The latest version is so chock full of features that it is hard to figure out where to begin. Let's see. There are the new models, the split screen multi-way posing window, the face and body morphing features, a bigger than ever pose library with full body, hand, face and lip poses. These libraries can save a lot of work. The morphing features let you start with their "standard" model and change the body type or facial features by sort of blending the base model with an exagerated model in three dimensions. The lip poses let you do lip synching movies based on phonemes. Two new features I have started exploring include dynamic cloth and dynamic hair. Poser 5 actually solves the differential equations for draping cloth and moving hair. Apparently, you can dump in any 3D model to use as a clothing model. You "clothify" it and constrain it with respect to the body where you wish, for example, at the waist. Then you can turn on the air currents and set the figure in motion. Play back the animation, and the clothing swoops and drapes. The hair is similar. You set up hair growth models and the hair interacts with the body, with air currents, with gravity and with itself. The model can run like a p...
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Poser Artist Fourth Edition

4 stars (WOW is all I can say!!!!) - The results of the pictures in poser artist is perfectly astounding!!! It is quite difficult, but as long as you have a manual along side you, you can create pictures that look professional!!! It is my FAVORITE art program (and I've tried ALOT, belive me)! I got it for Christmas, and yes I am younger than the appropiate age for this program, but my dad and mom help me TONS! It does have it's kinks-which is why I left out a star-and takes alot of space on my dad's hard drive, and takes FOREVER to install. So the content is GREAT, but be ready to have to spend a bit of time staring at that dumb little blue bar inch along the screen! ...
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Poser 6-Shade LE Bundle- 3D Figure Design and Animation Solution

2 stars (Poser 6 is slow and Curiouslabs is not responsive) - This review refers to the PC version Pros: 1. Great fun to work with Poser. 2. Nice renderings. 3. Neat new features including taking advantage of your graphics card. Cons: 1. Animations take much longer than Poser 5. They take so long that you really can't consider making a film with this program unless you have a super computer. 2. New company name and attitude, Curiouslabs is longer the company that supports Poser. EFRONTIERS no longer has a phone number that you can reach them at except for sales. 3. They have refused to fix a problem with Poser 5 that prevents it from running on Windows XP with Service Pack 2. 4. They had a lag time of over a week responding to an email. 5. Poser 6 feels like it was designed by 6 different people. What I mean by that is each area of the program requires a different approach to master it. 6. Since they finally wrote back to me I'd give them 3 stars but this program won't let me. 4 stars (great but did not receive Shade LE with my purchase) - Poser 6 is great. Being a beginner it would probably take me weeks (or more) to be able to model a 3d human (and then it still would look bad). But with Poser I can just use their models and morph them with its preset dials -- or I can add my own custom made morph targets. Plus Poser 6 can do a lot more... It deserves five stars in my opinion. Meanwhile Amazon did not also ship Shade LE in this "Poser-ShadeLE Bundle". However I don't believe Shade LE is worth my time to deal with, so I never followed up on the transaction. (It's probably a nice program if its cheap or free, though.) The price was good for Poser alone, but since Amazon screwed up, I'm subtracting a star from my rating. 4 stars (Not for the casual hobbiest) - Poser is hard. Extremely hard. The manual that comes with the software is poorly written and virtually useless. I recommend the VHS "POSER 5 Demystified", which is relevant to Poser 6 as well. Th...
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