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Poser 9 is the world’s easiest way to create amazing art and
animation with 3D characters. Poser’s simple to learn tools and
included characters let you focus on making art. Poser comes with
over 3 gigabyte of ready-to-pose humans and animals, textures,
props and 3D scene elements. In the Face Room, customize Poser
characters from facial photographs. Add dynamic hair and
clothing. Dress Poser’s virtual stage with props, lights and
cameras to build 3D scenes. Animate and render scenes into
photorealistic images and video for web, print, and film
projects. Graphic artists, illustrators and animators all get
creative with Poser!
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Easily Create 3D Character Art and Animation
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Poser 9 is the world's easiest way to create amazing art and
animation with 3D characters. Poser's simple to learn tools and
included characters let you focus on making art. Poser comes with
over 3 gigabyte of ready-to-pose humans and animals, textures,
props and 3D scene elements. In the Face Room, customize Poser
characters from facial photographs. Add dynamic hair and
clothing. Dress Poser's virtual stage with props, lights and
cameras to build 3D scenes. Animate and render scenes into
photorealistic images and video for web, print, and film
projects. Graphic artists, illustrators and animators all get
creative with Poser!
Poser includes fully rigged, posable and textured 3D figures that
can be infinitely customized with imported facial photographs,
built in morph targets and ethnic texture sets. Image by Daniel
Gabriel Scott Murray. View larger.
Poser figures are anatomically accurate, and can be clothed with
a full collection of hair styles applied to them. View larger.
The Poser FireFly engine is perfect for rendering your scenes
into images, and with our improved blurred reflections in version
9, realism has never been better. View larger.
Poser is perfect for creating fantastic worlds that are only
limited by your imagination. Image by Christel Dall. View larger.
Add new characters to Poser to create cartoons, comics, sci-fi
and fantasy images and animation. Image by Eric VanDycke. View
larger.
For amazing science fiction images with characters like robots,
there's no better way to create than Poser. Image by Brian
Romero. View larger.
Need to recreate historic scenes? Poser is the right choice.
Image by Brian Romero. View larger.
Poser is used by numerous artists to create fantasy images for
graphic novels and story illustration. Image by Paul Francis.
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For medical and scientific illustration, Poser includes accurate
human skeletons and fully detailed human figures. Image by Stefan
Werner. View larger.
Poser 9 includes more features than ever before:
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Real-time OpenGL Scene Preview
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With Poser 9's OpenGL improvements, you'll see accurate,
real-time previews of Spot, Point, Infinite and IBL (Image Based
Lights) Lights, Shadows, with Screen Space Ambient Occlusion,
Normal s and Back Facing Polygons. The Light Properties
control allows the user to toggle specific lights to preview in
the scene, with accumulated brightness for each selected light.
MIP support improves performance when previewing large
textures. Our OpenGL hardware improvements preview textures more
efficiently, with reliable onscreen display of lights, shadows,
and color, for smarter, quicker interactive scene creation.
Subsurface Scattering
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Skin, wax, and marble are just some of the materials that are
translucent when struck by light. To recreate this subtle yet
crucial effect when rendering these materials in Poser, we've
incorporated a set of easy to configure Subsurface Scattering
Material Nodes. New Nodes include Subsurface Skin, Custom
Scatter, and basic Scatter. The Scatter Node includes a number of
optimized pre-sets for Skin, Marble, Milk, Fruit and Vegetables.
With Poser's new Subsurface Material nodes, you'll transform your
scenes into rendered masterpieces with lifelike translucent
surfaces.
Rendering Performance Improvements
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Poser's FireFly Rendering Engine keeps getting better with
numerous improvements in reflections, transparencies, depth of
field and 3D motion blur quality, netting visibly smoother
results without significantly impacting render times. We've
invested time in Indirect Lighting (IDL) which now can be
combined with Ambient Occlusion (AO), and is faster when
rendering transparency. We've also enabled Light Emitting Objects
which are invisible in final renderings yet contribute indirect
illumination to the scene. In addition to our new Subsurface
Scattering Nodes, we've included a new Custom Scatter Node to
support effects such as bioluminescent skin.
Weight Rigging
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High-end professional 3D applications like 3ds Max and Maya have
set the standard for vertex Weight Rigging, and now both
Poser provides the most open vertex Weight ping support
available. Weight Rigging offers several benefits including
smoother bending folds and bulges with vertex by vertex control
over every bend or bulge. Weight s can be added to any joint
bend, to twist and scaling channels and can be used to control
bulges. Plus Poser takes the standard of Weight Rigging
several steps further with support for Hybrid Joint Rigging
(combining traditional Poser Sphere/ Zones with Weight
s), using either single mesh geometry or traditionally grouped
geometry, and enables Weight s or zones to affect any number
of body parts beyond the current joint. Poser's new Weight
Rigging provides a platform that will support third party figures
that use Weight ping, by expanding the open, well documented
and easily editable Poser PZ3 file format, to encourage
creativity and user driven enhancements to Poser figures.
Grouping Objects
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Need a way to move, scale or hide a bunch of objects in a Poser
scene, at the same time? Now you can simply add any number of
scene elements, from figures and props to lights, into a Grouping
Object. They can be moved, rotated, scaled and animated or even
hidden and revealed. Create multiple Grouping Objects to hold
different areas of a scene, or related props and figures. Adding
selected scene elements into any Grouping Object is easy using
our powerful new Context Menu controls. This significant new
feature will change how you manage your scenes, providing you
plenty of control over whole groups of objects in that scene.
Expanded Context Menus
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Sometimes, it's the simple things that make the biggest
difference. Poser's expanded Context Menus will vastly improve
interaction and scene creation, and change the way you work with
Poser forever. Six unique Context Menus have been developed for
Figures, Actors, Objects, Lights, Cameras and Backgrounds to
provide quick access to the most useful menu operations including
selecting, toggling IK on/off, copying symmetry in poses,
pointing lights, conforming clothing, setting parenting, changing
light types, and even hiding/revealing all items in a Grouping
Object. Once you start using Poser's new Context Menus, you'll
enjoy working and playing with Poser all over again.
Full Scene Category in Library
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In the past, if you wanted to re-use a Poser scene with that
perfect environment settings, lights, cameras, props and
dependencies and even render settings, you had to build it, save
it, then find and import it. With the new Scene Category in the
Library you simply add that full Poser scene with lights,
cameras, all props and figures in place, and with all
dependencies right into the Library. From there your new scenes
can be dragged directly from the Library into the Poser
workspace. For Poser content developers this new feature will
enable you to deliver fully constructed scenes with dependencies
and optimal render settings that require less user support and
are far easier to use.
Multi-select Drag and Drop Library Support
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When we introduced Drag and Drop support in Poser's Library, our
users found it so much easier to apply materials, or conform
clothing, or drop a pose right onto a figure. With the Library's
new Multi-select feature, you'll be able to select several items
of clothing and drag them right onto a figure and auto-conform
them in one step. But it gets even better when working with
multiple categories of items in your Favorites; Multi-select a
hairstyle, several clothing items and a pose all at once, then
click and drag them right onto your target figure. Poser will
automatically apply the items. It doesn't get much easier. Within
the Library, you'll be able to drag and drop items from folder to
folder making it easy to reorganize your Content.
Morphing Tool Support
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If you own a Wacom pressure sensitive , Poser is going to
make you a very happy camper. We've engineered Wacom
support into the Morph Tool so you can have much finer control
when creating morphs. Vary brush strength with pressure for any
brush size you've set. The Morph Tool is powerful, but with
support, it's gotten even better. The new 'Flatten' option
for Morphing Tool Create mode moves points toward a "best fit"
plane determined by the affected vertices.
Constraint Channels and Constraint Objects
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For our animators that have been looking for a way to animate a
ball being throw or caught, we've introduced Constraint Channels
and Objects. Basically, the Constraint Object is an animatable
handle for an object that will allow you to parent it to a
figure's hand as it winds up for the throw, and then have the
object leave the hand and fly through the air as if it's being
thrown. Constraints are a simple to use feature that will permit
all kinds of cool animation effects.
Light Emitting Objects
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We changed the face of rendering in Poser when we introduced
Indirect Lighting (IDL). Poser users quickly discovered that,
with high ambient values to cast light that with a few tweaks,
they could open up a huge array of lighting effects. Now you can
create Light Emitters; toggle off visibility in rendering for
objects, yet still enable them to cast light. Build light domes,
environment domes and large area lights to cast ambient light
without being rendered in the scene. Combined with our new Poser
Scene Library category, this feature will be a great way to
deliver a fully lit IDL environment.
Frame Selected Object
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In complex scenes it can be a little challenging to keep your
camera focused on an area that you're working on using Poser's
original camera controls. To help out, we've introduced the Frame
Selected Object Camera. With the click of a button, your current
camera will zoom in on the selected object, allowing you take a
closer look at exactly where you're working on. This makes it
easier to navigate in and out of your deep scenes and saves you
time when creating them.
Orbit Selected Object Mode
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Poser also includes a new mode as a companion feature to the new
Frame Selected Object Camera. Simply toggle on the Orbit Selected
mode and your current camera will rotate around the center point
of the currently selected object. This makes it easier to focus
on a selected element, and view it from every direction by
spinning Camera trackball controls.
Faster Dynamic Hair
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Our engineers spent time under the hood to speed up Dynamic
Hair. Now Poser's powerful Dynamic Hair calculates collisions
faster and renders it faster as well.
Pre-render Texture Caching
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We've heard your requests for faster pre-render texture handling
and delivered two new methods that will save time the minute you
press that Render Now button. Poser now preprocesses all scene
textures in the background making use of your multicore
processor, in prep for that first render, and can cache those
textures session to session if you desire. Choose between
traditional and the new Crisp' texture filtering options.
Python 2.7 Support
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Poser keeps improving and so does Python. We now provide Python
2.7 support to take full advantage of improvements to the
scripting language.
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Support
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Poser 9 is now fully Cocoa based and supported on Apple's latest
OS X 10.7 Lion.
Why use Poser 9?
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Creating 3D illustrations that include people or digital
characters is time-consuming and hard.
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Designers and artists want to create art and animations with 3D
characters, without having to create those 3D characters from
scratch. We don't blame you! That's why Poser and Poser Pro come
with everything you need to quickly add life to your project.
Poser lets you focus on the story you want to tell by freeing
you from having to build the actors and props in your story.
Quickly customize and pose your characters on the stage, set up
the scene with props, backgrounds and architectural elements to
support that story and then create your final 3D art and
animations.
Getting the right lighting effects on figures and objects is
difficult.
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We changed the face of rendering in Poser when we introduced
Indirect Lighting (IDL). And it became obvious when Poser users
discovered that IDL enabled objects with high ambient values to
cast light that with a few tweaks we could open up a huge array
of lighting effects. Now you can create Light Emitters; toggle
off visibility in rendering for objects, yet still enable them to
cast light. Build light domes, environment domes and large area
lights to cast ambient light without being rendered in the scene.
Combined with our new Poser Scene Library category, this feature
will be a great way to deliver a fully lit IDL environment.
Poser 9's improved Firefly render engine now supports Indirect
Lighting with Irradiance Caching for Global Illumination effects
and even supports rendering with Ambient Occlusion. New Shader
nodes enable Subsurface Scattering for luminescent skin tones and
Custom Scattering for bioluminescent effects. Poser's physically
correct light fall-off produces more photo-real final renderings.
Skin, wax, and marble are just some of the materials that are
translucent when struck by light. To recreate this subtle yet
crucial effect when rendering these materials in Poser, we've
incorporated a set of easy to configure Subsurface Scattering
Material Nodes. New Nodes include Subsurface Skin, Custom
Scatter, and basic Scatter. The Scatter Node includes a number of
optimized pre-sets for Skin, Marble, Milk, Fruit and Vegetables.
With Poser's new Subsurface Material nodes, you'll transform your
scenes into rendered masterpieces with lifelike translucent
surfaces.
Putting actual people into dangerous, inaccessible or imaginary
places to serve as a model for digital image or video creation
isn't possible or practical.
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Take crime scene recreation for example: you need an imaginary
3D world where you can place all the suspects, victims, weapons,
explosions, and more and play out their interactions without
anyone getting hurt. In fact, Poser Pro is a critical tool used
by the production crew for the television drama s. They use
it weekly to pose and animate their re-enactments--check out this
video straight from one of their episodes.
Industrial and architectural designers, medical illustrators,
product engineers and graphic artists often need virtual humans
to interact with a design, to convey a sense of scale or draw
attention to a feature in a designed product. Poser lets you work
with 3D actors in scenes that would be impossible to duplicate in
the real world. Historic scenes, imaginary or fantasy scenes,
sci-fi and superhero scenes are easy to create in Poser, so you
can let your imagination run wild and build exactly the world you
want, and populate that world with 3D characters.
At your fingers tips is a huge library of included ready-to-pose
and easy-to-customize characters with clothing and props that
will fit into almost any scene you can imagine. Customize those
figures with poses, expressions and face room morphs and set-up
cameras and lights to support any perspective, point of view or
lighting condition.
- Get Started Fast - Drag and drop characters and props right onto Poser’s virtual stage to create 3D scenes, add lights and cameras, then render away!.
- Customize Characters - Start with one of the many included ready-to-pose 3D characters and customize them using your photos or hundreds of face shaping morphs to produce unique characters in minutes..
- Rendering Styles - Poser’s powerful rendering engine will transform any 3D scene you’ve created into photorealistic, cartoon or sketch style images and animations..
- Animate Easily - Poser’s key-frame animation tools make it easy to transition between poses, or make a character walk or talk, throw a ball or even dance..
- 3D Characters for Any Project - Create art or animation for graphic design, web, fine art and illustration projects. From comic books and animated shorts to architectural and industrial design, Poser adds character..