e-frontier Poser 7
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Poser provides the easiest way to design with the human form in 3D. Creative professionals, graphic artists and hobbyists can use the rich collection of included 3D content and powerful rendering capabilities to produce stunning art, fine illustration and breathtaking animation for any application that integrates the diversity and spirit of the human figure.
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Product Description
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Poser revolutionized computer graphics worldwide by merging the excitement of working with the human figure in 3D, with ease-of-use on the desktop. Poser 7 combines 10 years of development with new, high-resolution content and posing enhancements, more powerful rendering, breakthroughs in realism and animation, significant workflow improvements, plus a lot more. |
What's New in Poser 7
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Poser 7 comes with over 1GB of high resolution 3D content. Leading the way are Simon and Sydney, the new male and female figures, plus loads of exclusive third party content, new wildlife, new motion capture data, light sets, poses, materials, and lots more. |
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Using the new Talk Designer in Poser 7, even beginning animators can easily make figures talk with facial movements that match real human behavior! Talk Designer will work with Sydney and Simon, as well as James, Jessi, and the Generation 2 Koji and Kelvin figures. |
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Step back and forth through up to 100 recent changes within your scene! Poser 7’s Multiple Undo and Redo 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. |
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Render up to four times faster with Multi-threaded Rendering (up to four threads) on machines with multiple CPUs. Poser 7 creates even more realistic images with High Dynamic Range Image (HDRI) support for Image Based Lighting and textures. |
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Use Poser 7’s new 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. |
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Poser 7’s new Create tab on the Morphing Tool palette provides powerful interactive controls for creating your own custom morph targets. Easily create custom morphs on your figures just like you would with any brush tool. |
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Now you can apply any pose to any biped figure within Poser 7, regardless of that figure's joints or rigging, and see consistent, high quality results! |
Complete 3D Figure Design & Animation
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Poser 7 brings the art of figure design to your desktop, with an innovative user interface to make working with the human form easily accessible. Human figures, animal models and more are included for you to design and pose immediately. You can click-and-drag to sculpt faces, easily pose the human body in any position, and even create various ethnicities to fit projects of any scope. If you require fine control, full body morphs, facial expression morphs, and bone rigging are easily accessible for your figure. When using Poser, your models are posed in a natural 3D environment with realistic depth. You have complete control over the lighting and shadowing to create the effects you need and the impact you want to make your work memorable. Explore the ser Interface
Camera Controls Cameras represent your window into the Poser workspace. Use them as a director would to view a scene, and set up your ideal camera shots for each image or animation frame. You can take advantage of what 3D offers by being able to render a scene from multiple camera angles, and configure your cameras to facilitate your creative workflow. NEW: Design or animate from any combination of angles with custom cameras. Using Poser 7, you can now 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. Poser includes a variety of independent cameras for viewing your scene, or you can view 4 different angles at once using Posers four-pane camera view. All are easily controlled with an innovative Trackball control for intuitive scene setup. Bone Rigging Create new, fully poseable Poser figures from any 3D object in a few easy steps. Import 3D geometry, or break it into body parts to generate new Poser figures. Inverse Kinematics (IK) delivers natural character motion by modeling the hierarchical interactions of bones and joints, so that when you move a hand, the arm naturally follows. Open GL Preview New OpenGL hardware acceleration offers improved performance with figure Posing and Preview renders. Easily switch between SreeD Software and OpenGL. Hardware rendering for scene previews means you can maximize your system's resources and spend your time creating rather than waiting. NEW: 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, and up to 16 times more detail than the previous version of Poser! Realistic Lighting Lighting is an essential component of any 3D image. Lights add color, cast shadows, and create specific effects to set the mood and tone for your scene. Poser 7’s light controls allow you to easily add lights and individually configure different types of light sources in your Poser scene, so combined with Poser 7’s powerful rendering tools, your lighting possibilities are virtually unlimited! Photo Based Facial Mapping Poser's Face Room allows you to create a virtual likeness of yourself or anyone else! You can create lifelike results and model new characters by importing facial photos and mapping them onto a 3D head. You can then sculpt your custom head to generate new facial features, or create caricatures for wild characters! Texture variation tools then allow you to fashion your facial color, ethnicity, age, gender and more to build vivid character in your new face. |
Rendering
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FireFly With Poser 7’s FireFly render engine, you can achieve photorealistic results with smoothed models, RayTraced reflections and refractions, natural light and shadows, and much more:
Poser’s Sketch Designer render engine creates stylized, non photorealistic renders that simulate black-and-white or colored brush strokes. Sketch Designer provides customizable simulations of black-and-white or colored brush strokes, allowing you to create still art or animations that look like they were done using fine art tools rather than the computer. Customize the settings the way you choose and render your scenes as pencil drawings, charcoal, pastels, watercolors or paintings. Shadow Catching Poser 7 features true to life shadow effects, making image composition and 3D figure integration easy. Using the Shadow Catcher, you can separate shadows from their underlying surface and put them virtually anywhere. Subsurface Scattering With the FastScatter node you can add subsurface scattering of light effects to translucent materials. FastScatter creates improved skin shading effects and adds more realism to rendered figures. Additionally, FastScatter has the advantage of being several times faster than traditional SubSurface Scattering. Image Based Lighting (IBL) With Image Based Lighting, you can use any photograph or image map to light a 3D figure or scene. Image Based Lighting uses the provided image as the light source, to realistically blend a background image and 3D figure together. Image Based Lighting adds realism from more natural lighting to your scenes. NEW: Poser now supports High Dynamic Range Images (HDRI) for Image Based Lighting and textures, giving you rendered lighting quality comparable to analog photo film for even more realistic imagery! Cartoon Outlines The Toon Outline option draws outlines around the edges of your cartoon images. Poser 7 offers 9 different outline brush styles so you can further personalize your cartoon shading. Ambient Occlusion Ambient Occlusion makes figures appear as though they are in the natural lighting environment of the real world. Ambient Occlusion is available on every light source to create accurate soft shadow effects, thus giving scenes an amazing degree of realism. NEW: Poser 7 speeds up Ambient Occlusion calculations with virtually no compromise on quality using the new Irradiance Caching feature. You can optimize for speed and configure Irradiance Caching for draft renders, or optimize for quality for final renders. Materials Room Poser's Material room allows you to create and control all the material properties of object surfaces in Poser scenes using powerful node-based procedural shaders. You can build a shader using one or more shader nodes, each one of which controls a specific aspect of your final material. The combination of procedurals, image maps, animations, fractal, and math nodes can create virtually any material you can imagine.
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Animation
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Animation Controls Poser offers tools to eliminate much of the repetitive work involved in animating figures. Animators can use the automatic keyframe creation to design and smoothly incorporate motion cycles into their animations, without having to manually set and adjust each pose frame by frame. Inverse Kinematic (IK) chains on pre-rigged 3D characters facilitate natural human motion when posing and animating figures. Walk Designer Poser has made difficult walk simulations easier and more accurate than ever before. With the Walk Designer, you can now create walk and run cycles for figures in minutes using a few simple steps. Animators can use the Walk Designer, keyframe copying, and Loop Interpolation to design and smoothly incorporate motion cycles into animations, without having to manually set and adjust each pose frame by frame. And once an animated sequence is complete, you can save it to the Library to reuse in the future or to keep as a starting point for new animations. In Poser 7, you can now store figure transformation and/or full body morph target settings in a pose. NEW: Talk Designer Add incredible realism to your animations with Poser 7’s new lip syncing functionality! Talking is one of the most challenging tasks in character animation, and using the new Talk Designer, even beginning animators can easily make figures speak with facial movements that match real human behavior! With Talk Designer, you have the power to control the type and level of emotion, enunciation, with head and eye movements to match, even 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! 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. |
Dynamic Hair & Cloth
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Hair Room Poser 7's Hair Room allows you to create dynamic strand-based 3D hair for your figures or props. Hair can be added wherever you like on any object in your scene, plus you can add shaders in the Material room to give your hair almost any appearance, from bleach blond to moss, lichens or grass! You can grow hair and control how strands of hair grow on any object in your scene, then style and animate the hair to create whatever effect you desire. Growth controls allow you to control aspects such as length and thickness. With Poser’s styling controls, you can shape your hair to thick, thin, straight or curly. You can also apply dynamics such as gravity to your hair to create realistic effects during animation. Strand-based hair can be used to emulate other strand-based coverings too, such as grass or fur. Cloth Room Poser’s Cloth room allows you to create realistic cloth that behaves like real fabric. Poser supports three types of clothing: conforming, dynamic and prop-based clothing. Conforming clothing attaches closely to figures and moves as the figure moves. Dynamic clothing adds realism to your scenes by making clothing flow and drape around any figure or object as they would in real life. Prop-based clothing converts cloth objects into static props for use in scenes where a cloth-like look is desired. |
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Design using the human form for graphic and web design, fine art, comics, pre-viz/storyboarding, medical and technical illustration, architectural and product design, and education - essentially everywhere your creative mind may take you as you design for print, video, film, or web! |
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Poser saves you time by making it easy to add human faces and figures to your illustration, design and web projects. Render finished work or export to other 2D or 3D applications for final composition. Whatever your need, Poser will help you reveal the human spirit. |
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Use Poser’s large collection of 3D content, lighting and camera controls to compose scenes as reference for your work in traditional media, or use Poser’s high-end rendering tools to create finished art in many styles, from photorealism to sketch, cartoon, pastel, and more! |
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Poser combines a large collection of pre-rigged figures and props with camera controls and professional lighting effects to save you time and effort in pre-visualization and storyboarding. Use poses for reference or create simulations with Poser’s animation tools. |
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Use pre-rigged figures and content to pose the human body for medical and technical illustrations, and as an instructional aide for teaching. Adjust light conditions and cameras from any angle to better reveal the human form. |
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Comic art is more popular than ever. Poser 7 offers great tools for comic and cartoon artists that help create unique figures with stylized effects such as cartoon shading, pencil sketching and outlines. Have fun creating with pre-rigged human, robot and cartoon 3D characters. |
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Poser figures add human scale and energy to buildings and interior designs. Poser exports 3D figures and animations for use in architectural projects created in CAD programs. You can even create full walk animations where Poser figures walk through your scenes. |
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In addition to the collection of new high-resolution figures and animals, poses, expressions and props delivered with Poser 7, additional content packs, thousands of 3D models, 2D images and sound files are available from e frontier and Content Paradise! |
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Miki CE Figure Pack Terai Yuki 2 for Poser Base Figure Pack Dino Pack for Poser Volume 1 Animal Collection Volume 1 |
System Requirements
Windows
• Windows 2000, XP or Vista
• 700 MHz Pentium class or compatible (1 GHz or faster recommended)
• 512 MB system RAM (768 MB or more recommended)
• OpenGL enabled graphics card or chipset recommended (recent NVIDIA GeForce and ATI Radeon preferred)
• 24-bit color display, 1024 x 768 resolution
• 1 GB free hard disk space (4 GB recommended)
• Internet connection required for Content Paradise
• DVD-ROM drive
Macintosh
• Mac OS X v.10.3.9 or 10.4 (Universal Binary)
• 700 MHz G4 processor (Intel Core Duo or 1GHz G4 or faster recommended)
• 512 MB system RAM (768 MB or more recommended)
• OpenGL enabled graphics card or chipset recommended (recent NVIDIA GeForce and ATI Radeon preferred)
• 24-bit color display, 1024 x 768 resolution
• 1 GB free hard disk space (4 GB recommended)
• Internet connection required for Content Paradise
• DVD-ROM drive
