Product Description
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Poser 7, the Premiere 3D Figure Design and Animation Software
Brings Life to Any Digital Project with 3D Imagery and Animation.
Poser is the standard for depicting the human form in 3D. Poser
is used for figure design and animation by hobbyists professional
graphic artists. Using Poser, digital artists can easily create
traditional art, comics, education and training materials, film
and television productions, game development projects,
illustration and print media, product package design and web and
online media. Anything from Sci-Fi art to storyboards,
illustrations to fantasy movies, artists can master the human
form and 3D characters to bring life to art.
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Poser 7, the Premiere 3D Figure Design and Animation Software
Brings Life to Any Digital Project with 3D Imagery and Animation.
Poser is the standard for depicting the human form in 3D. Poser
is used for figure design and animation by hobbyists professional
graphic artists. Using Poser, digital artists can easily create
traditional art, comics, education and training materials, film
and television productions, game development projects,
illustration and print media, product package design and Web and
online media. Anything from Sci-Fi art to storyboards,
illustrations to fantasy movies, artists can master the human
form and 3D characters to bring "life" to art.
Loaded With Content
Poser has always been jam packed with valuable, ready to use 3D
content, and Poser 7 is loaded to the brim! Leading the way are
Simon and Sydney, the new male and female figures. Sydney and
Simon are complete with animated poses, still poses, full body
morphs, facial expressions and morphs, hair, clothing, light
sets, and more.
Poser 7 also features:
* Exclusive 3rd party content from Runtime, Meshbox Designs,
Netherworks, Vanishing Point and more;
* New wildlife including an eagle, wolf and others
* Extensive updates to the Poser Child figures with new morphs,
textures and rigging
* New Motion Capture Data, Light Sets, Poses and Materials
* G2 Male, Female figures
* Forest and s by Runtime
* RoboShark by VanishingPoint
New Lip Syncing Features
Add incredible realism to your animations with new lip syncing
functionality in Poser 7! Talking is one of the most challenging
tasks in character animation, and using the new Talk Designer in
Poser 7, even beginning animators can easily make figures talk
with facial movements that match real human behavior! With Talk
Designer, you have the power to control the type and level of
emotion, enunciation, and head and eye movement including the
figure's blink rate. Import a sound file and Poser 7 will
automatically animate your figure's lip, eye and head movements
to match!
Whether you are a seasoned professional or are just learning how
to animate, now you can create movies or flash animations with
characters that speak to add a whole new dimension of realism to
your art. Talk Designer will work with many e frontier figures,
including Sydney and Simon, the new Poser 7 figures, as well as
James, Jessi, and the Generation 2 Koji and Kelvin figures. Third
party content creators will be able to provide configuration
files that make any viseme-equipped* figures Talk Designer
compatible!
* Visemes are the visual representations of phonemes.
The Power of Multiple Undos
Give your creativity and productivity a boost with Multiple Undo
and Redo in Poser 7 ! Freely explore poses, morph target changes,
and body transformations without worrying about making mistakes
or having to save multiple versions of your project at every new
turn. In Poser 7, you can return to earlier poses and designs,
and can step back and forth through up to 100 recent changes
within your scene! Even steps you couldn't previously back out
are now undoable. Multiple Undo and Redo is an incredible
timesaver that can be applied on a wide range of your document
changes, including all actions from the Poser library, applying
poses, or deleting figures and props from your scenes.
Faster Rendering and HDRI Support
Render up to four times faster with Multi-threaded Rendering on
machines with multiple CPUs. FireFly takes advantage of the
processing power of the multi-core and multi-processor systems
available on the market by rendering on up to four threads
simultaneously. This optimization results in much shorter render
times for most scenes.
Render more complex scenes than ever with new Tiled Texture
Loading. Texture memory needs at render time are reduced to less
than 10% (compared to previous versions for texture-heavy
scenes)! Hard disk caching results in greatly reduced memory
requirements. FireFly's tiled texture loading system also takes
advantage of a new Texture Filtering approach, which uses a
fraction of the memory of its predecessor. Create even more
realistic images with HDRI! Poser now supports High Dynamic Range
Images (HDRI) for Image Based Lighting and textures, giving you
rendered lighting quality comparable to analog photo film!
Poser 7 Delivers More Render Performance
* Render in a Separate Process: FireFly now has the option to run
in a separate process from the application, which can yield
performance advantages when rendering highly complex scenes.
FireFly also lets your system manage memory more efficiently and
provides better system stability due to the separation of
rendering tasks.
* Speed up Ambient Occlusion calculations with virtually no
compromise on quality using the new Irradiance Caching feature.
You can configure Irradiance Caching for draft (optimized for
speed) versus final (optimized for quality) renders.
* Save more rendering time with Occlusion Culling, which enables
FireFly to improve render performance by ignoring invisible scene
elements at render time.
* Benefit from faster Raytracing with FireFly's new kd-tree Ray
Accelerator, which improves raytracing performance in densely
populated scenes.
* Take advantage of Poser 7's improved Depth of Field calculation
to generate superior results in less time.
Non-Linear Animation and Animation Layers
Create superior movies using Poser 7's new Non-Linear Animation!
Now you can use Animation Layers to separate the various parts of
an animation into independent pieces that can be individually
moved, edited, hidden, or even phased gradually in and out! At
playback Poser seamlessly compiles all the separate layers into a
single, cohesive animation! Animation layers are supported by a
variety of Poser's animation tools, such as the Walk Designer and
Talk Designer, as well as the content Library, making it simple
to organize and even reuse various portions of your animations.
Make your characters walk and talk, and even chew gum at the same
time while keeping every strand of animation flexible! Using
layers to combine animations makes it all easy and intuitive -
since you are blending different layers of animation, you can
combine different actions. Click and drag layers horizontally to
have your animation building blocks start earlier or later in
time. To help you organize your animations, Include in Playback
allows you to hide or include layers when viewing the entire
animation. Your creativity is the only limit to what you can
create with layered, non-linear animation!
Poser 7 Delivers More Animation Strength
* Manipulate the visibility of individual objects within your
scene, making them appear or disappear gradually or in an
instant, all by simply adjusting a parameter dial with Poser 7's
new Visibility Channel.
* Accomplish more with Poser 7's enhanced PoserPython scripting
environment: * The new folder-driven Scripts menu on main menu
bar makes it easy to expand, manage and use your Python script
collection.
* The scripting interface has been enhanced to give you more
control.
* The Python runtime is updated to Python 2.4
* Poser 7 now supports the Tkinter GUI toolkit for Mac OS X 10.4
(not 10.3).
Morphing Tool
Add a whole new level of detail to your Poser 7 scenes using new
brush-like morphing tools! The new Create tab on the Morphing
Tool palette provides powerful interactive controls for creating
your own custom morph targets. Easily "paint" dimples, moles or
creases on your figures with simple strokes, just like you would
with any brush tool. Use custom morph targets to create even more
dynamic facial expressions; to change the appearance of bodies;
to pull conforming clothing out past protruding body parts; to
improve cloth simulation results; and for a wide variety of other
uses as well.
Using the new morphing tools, selected areas or single points of
the mesh can be pushed or pulled, smoothed or restored. Start by
selecting the size of the area that you want to modify using the
Radius control - small for detail work and large for broader
changes. Choose from five brush styles that vary in falloff (how
the change blends toward the edge of the selected area), from a
very soft brush that blends gradually toward the edge to a crisp
brush that affects the entire area the same way.
You can also define the magnitude of your changes, whether they
accumulate or cap at a certain size, and if they act on a
specific point or stroke like a brush tool. Make your changes
either in surface mode, which will modify the mesh along the
direction of surface normals, or in screen mode, which will allow
deformations in any direction you wish.
When you are done, save your morphed Poser 7 figures into the
library for later use. You don't have to be an expert to take
your scenes to a whole new level, using Poser's intuitive morph
target creation tools!
Universal Poses
Now you can apply any pose to any biped figure within Poser,
regardless of that figure's joints or rigging, and see
consistent, high quality results! To save time, you can even take
legacy poses from earlier versions of Poser and resave them to
the Poser 7 Library, which will automatically convert them to
Universal Poses!
Poser 7 Delivers More Control
Flexibly increase or reduce the value of any parameter in your
scene with Dependent Parameters. Using Dependent Parameters in
your files allows you to modify multiple morph targets, deformers
or any other parameter using a single, master parameter dial. Now
with Poser 7, you have much greater control in defining the ways
that your parameters interact as your figure is adjusted.
Organize your content better using Content Collections. Poser 7's
new Content Collections allow you to easily organize your Poser
content from any Runtime Library or category into a single
collection, giving you instant access to your favorite content
without having to change Library categories.
The new Runtime Selection pop-up menu allows you to easily switch
between different Runtime Libraries, without having to navigate
through the Library folder hierarchy. Poser's Library palette now
also displays your current Runtime Library name so you always
know where you are.
Replacing light sets is a mouse click away. Now you can add or
replace a light set within your scene with a single click.
Z-Buffer Actor Selection allows you to select obscured body parts
without even having to move your mouse. This is particularly
helpful when posing hands, in other instances where body parts
are grouped closely together, or when two figures are within
proximity.
Poser 7 Delivers More
* Enjoy much more realistic scene previews. Improved preview
texture resolution leverages the power of your graphics hardware
to give you up to 4096x4096 pixel texture previews that show
amazing detail - that's up to 16 times more detailed than Poser
6!
* Focus on creativity, not repetition, with new workflow
improvements: * Easily populate your scene with identical, yet
independent figures. Now you can duplicate selected objects (with
animation) and save time without the tedious process of having to
individually configure each object in your scene.
* Save animated poses with walk paths or full body morphs
directly into your library. In Poser 7, you can now store figure
transformation and/or full body morph target settings in a pose
* If you are new to Poser, new training resources provided in
Poser 7 will get you started quickly. In addition to the Poser 7
Reference and Tutorial Manuals, on-screen step-by-step
interactive tutorials will guide you through many Poser basics.
The new Quick Start dialog gives you access to a number of
different projects that can be viewed through the Project Guide
palette. Learning at your own pace, you will be led through each
step in your project, and have access to "watch-me" videos with
detailed visual explanations of individual tasks.
* More workflow improvements are included in Poser 7 too: *
Design or animate from any combination of angles with custom
cameras. Now you can create new cameras in addition to the
default set, choose whether they are revolving or dolly style,
and view your scene any way you choose.
* Work on the details in your design with precision and ease.
Poser's orthographic cameras (top, front, right, etc.) are now
easier to use and more exact.
* Save time, directly create and add all light types to your
scene with just two mouse clicks
* Get a real sense of what your final result will look like as
you work, without having to render your scene! Poser 7's
Procedural Shader Preview can display the results of most
procedural shader effects in the Preview window. Enable Hardware
Shading on systems with high-performance graphics hardware.
* Import your textures and images in modern formats. Poser 7 now
supports HDR and EXR formats for import of high dynamic range
bit images, as well as many other modern formats.
* Choose how you want to locate an object's associated files.
Poser 7's Configurable File Search includes three levels of
depth, Deep (for most extensive), Shallow or None, to give you
the results you want -- fast or comprehensive.
- Easily create 3D human art for web, print media and fine illustrations, film pre-visualization, populating architectural scenes, flash animations, games and more..
- Includes gigibytes of additional content to quickly start and learn to work in 3D..
- New version includes Lip Synching, character morphing tools, multiple undo's, non-linear animation support (NLA), high dynamic range imaging support (HDRI), improved rendering, smart Quickguide plus many other enhancements..
- Output human figure art in many styles, and export to other 3D programs..