Poser (circa 2004)

Not satisfied with Daz3d, I purchased Poser 5 in CompUSA. I've checked online stores and the prices were the same. When I did my online research on Poser it appeared to be a standard for creating digital human figures and have your way with them - posing, animating, clothing, modifications, texture, just to scratch the surface. I was mainly interested in creating 3d figures and animating them. With Poser and Daz3d, the exported figure can be imported in Bryce, a landscaping/virtual environment software.

Poser is a powerful tool and I was overwhelmed at its complexity. There are tons of free tutorials out there and it did took time to learn only the things I wanted to do since it would take a lifetime to learn this software.

The greatest thing Poser did for me was to transform a complex Poser model and turn it into a model that was specific to work on Dakine Wave's Virtual Stage software. When a new version of Virtual Stage came out, VS allowed the actors to express several emotions. But the user had to make the models with the emotion sets. VS did the rest.


Poser 7 - Design, Pose and Animate Figures in 3D