Smith Micro Poser 8

Poser 8 is the world's most complete solution for creating art and animation using 3D characters. With Poser, it's easy to make 3D art, whether you're an experienced artist or you're dabbling in graphics for the very first time. Poser includes over 2.5 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 so you can start creating 3D character art and animation in minutes.

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Product Description

• Generate new characters from your facial photographs.
• Add hair and clothing.
• Dress Poser's virtual stage with props, lights and cameras to construct 3D scenes.
• 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 your scene into photorealistic images and video for web, print, and film projects.
• Export 3D figures to add characters to other 3D applications.

Along with 8 brand new 3D humans, Poser 8 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 dependant 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 8 has been performance optimized so you can pose your characters and render them faster on today's multiple processor systems.

If you're a serious artist, illustrator or animator or simply dream of playing with 3D characters, you'll love getting creative with Poser 8!

Key New Features

• 8 new fully rigged, fully-posable, photorealistic human characters
• 1.X GB all new content
• New User Interface with improved workflow
• Dependent Parameters editor enables teaching of interaction links
• Search-enabled Content Management system in the Poser 8 Library
• Cross Body Part Morph Tool
• Indirect Illumination for Global Illumination effects
• Improved rigging system for better bending characters
• Improved OpenGL real time scene preview displays up to 8 lights more realistic lighting
• Physically correct light attenuation for more accurate light falloff
• Tone mapping and Exposure control for more accurate brightness and luminance
• Normal Mapping support at render time
• Performance optimizations for posing and rendering improvements on multi-processor systems
• Wardrobe Wizard to fit existing clothing items onto new figures
• wxPython support provides 3rd party add-on developers more control and extensibility

Key Product Benefits

• Powerful, yet easy-to-use 3D character animation solution
• Very affordable
• Includes 3D character tools and over 2.5GB of ready-to-use content
• Includes 8 brand new, ready-to-pose, fully textured human characters
• No need to model 3D characters from scratch
• Render photorealistic or stylized art and animations for print, web or video projects
• Create 3D figures to use in other applications
• Easily manage and use your scene assets and content
• Fit existing clothing assets to new figures
• Create full body morphs
• Create better-bending new figures
• Link objects in scene to interact

System Requirements

Windows

• Windows XP or Vista
• 700 MHz Pentium class or compatible (1 GHz or faster recommended)
• 512 MB system RAM (1 GB or more recommended)
• OpenGL enabled graphics card or chipset recommended (recent NVIDIA GeForce and ATI Radeon preferred)
• 24-bit color display, 1024 x 768 minimum resolution
• 2 GB free hard disk space (4 GB recommended)
• Internet connection for Content Paradise
• Windows® Internet Explorer® 7
• Adobe® Flash® Player 9
• DVD-ROM drive (physical product only)

Macintosh

• Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5
• 700 MHz G4 processor (Intel Core Duo or 1GHz G4 or faster recommended)
• 512 MB system RAM (1 GB or more recommended)
• OpenGL enabled graphics card or chipset recommended (recent NVIDIA GeForce and ATI Radeon preferred)
• 24-bit color display, 1024 x 768 minimum resolution
• 2 GB free hard disk space (4 GB recommended)
• Internet connection required for Content Paradise
• Adobe® Flash® Player 9
• DVD-ROM drive (physical product only)