Poser

Poser 9 is the world’s easiest way to create art and animation using 3D characters. Poser’s simple to learn tools and included characters let you focus on making art, whether you’re a professional artist or dabbling in graphics for the very first time. Poser includes over 3 gigabyte of ready-to-pose, fully textured, human and animal figures, basic accessories such as hair, clothing, pose sets, real world props and 3D scene elements. With Poser 9 you can start creating 3D character art and animation in minutes. With the Face Room, customize Poser characters using facial photographs. Add dynamic hair and clothing. Build a3D scene on Poser’s virtual stage with props, lights and cameras. Automatically generate walking or running animations and talking characters. Import motion capture files for even more animated realism. Animate lights and cameras, and then render scenes into photorealistic images and video for web, print, and film projects.

Along with 8 brand new 3D humans, Poser 9 includes an improved user interface to maximize your workspace while providing better workflow, a new search-enabled library so you can find, organize and use your content easier, a dependent parameter tool that lets you teach objects in the scene to interact with each other, cross body morph brushes to smoothly sculpt a figure across every body part, new photorealistic rendering features that more accurately reproduce light and shadows, and improved character rigging for even better character bending. To save time, Poser 9 has been performance optimized so you can pose your characters and render them faster on today’s multiple processor systems.

Poser 9 includes advanced Weight Map Rig support to generate better performing 3D characters that can be more easily posed with natural joints across the body. Hybrid Rigging supports both traditional Poser Sphere and Capsule zones to be used in combination. Poser 9 also supports both traditional grouped body part figures and single mesh figures. Weight Map Support for third party figures is delivered within our native poser file format, the PZ3, an open, well documented format that has been at the heart of the creative Poser community for over 15 years.

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, FastScattering for bioluminescent effects and a Tri-specular Hair Shader for more appealing trans-mapped hair highlights. Poser’s physically correct light fall-off produces more photo-real final renderings. Even share final content via Facebook with our direct upload to your Poser gallery.

Other new features include multi-select drag and drop from Poser’s Library, Expanded Context Menus for better workflow, new camera modes to focus on your selected area, pressure sensitive tablet support in the Morph Brush, improved Content Management system with drag and drop, auto conforming, search, meta data support, zone strength display for figure rigging, parameter change indicator and the Recent Render palette.

Whether you’re a serious artist, illustrator or animator or simply dream of playing with 3D characters, you’ll love getting creative with Poser 9!

Benefits

• Powerful, yet easy to use 3D Character Animation solution
• Integrate pre-rigged characters and content into 3D projects and production pipelines
• Provides both 3D character tools and over 3GB of ready to use character content
• Quickly pose and animate pre-built 3D figures to save time
• Poser doesn’t require character modeling or rigging skills
• Render images and animations across your network of computers
• Weight map rigging system provides better bending 3D figures
• SubSurface Scattering renders more life-like skintones
• OpenGL Realtime Preview makes it easier to light scenes and cast shadows

New Feature

Real-time OpenGL Scene Preview
• Preview lights, shadows and materials more accurately when you’re creating a scene, to save render time and produce more reliable results when rendering.

SubSurface Scattering
• This subtle rendering effect produces skintones, wax and stone surfaces that are translucent and catch light more realistically.

Rendering Performance Improvements
• FireFly improvements in reflections, transparencies, depth of field and motion blur render yield higher quality and smoother results without significantly impacting render times.

Weight Map Rigging
• Weight Map rigging enables characters to bend better with smoother folds and bulges, using painted weight maps that can set to control each vertex in a joint.
• Weight Maps can be combined with traditional Poser Sphere and Capsule zones for hybridized rigging
• Weight Maps and Zones can affect any number of additional actors in a figure for better bending wings, hips shoulders and fingers.
• Weight Maps can be used for every bend, for twists, and bulges to produce next generation figure rigs.
• Weight Maps can work with traditional grouped and welded Poser figures or with a single mesh figures for greater flexibility.