Poser 9 and Poser Pro 2012 Unveiled
Following the most successful presale reception from the graphics community—driven by its groundbreaking and innovative feature set, Smith Micro Software, Inc. Productivity and Graphics Group announced today the official release of Poser 9 and Poser Pro 2012. The highly anticipated software features new and powerful tools including Vertex Weight Map Rigging support and Subsurface Scattering—establishing Poser as the most versatile character animation solution for budding 3D artists, as well as the industry’s most pioneering filmmakers, animators and illustrators.
12 Year Old Charlie Dane Creates Music Video Exclusively On MacBook Air
Whether you’re a Mac fan or not, Charlie Dane’s first professional music video is a wonder. The video sits along side her original song “Once in a While”, and the audio production was edited and the video filmed by Don Chaffin.
SpongeBob Tooncast Studio
Smith Micro has announced it has joined with Nickelodeon and NetToons to bring the first-ever SpongeBob SquarePants Tooncast Studio. Now fans of every age and skill level can become part of their favorite show by creating their own pro-quality SpongeBob animations. The SpongeBob SquarePants Tooncast Studio was unveiled at Comic-Con 2011.
Anime Studio Debut 8 Giveaway
Last month I wrote a review for Anime Studio 8 which comes in both a Debut format for beginners and a Pro format for professionals. This software allows you to draw 2D characters or objects, give them skeletons, and then animate them.
Anime Studio 8 Review
Anime Studio is a 2D animation program from Smith Micro Software that also released Poser Debut, which is for 3D animation. While I had difficulties manipulating Poser, I found Anime Studio to be an excellent program that only takes a couple of tries to understand the base controls. It allows you to draw 2D characters or objects (or if you’re lazy, use templates), give them skeletons, and then animate them.
Poser Debut 3D Software Review
Poser Debut is a program that’s potential is to create, construct and animate 3D models and backgrounds.
You’re gifted with a library full of models, props, hairstyles, expressions, poses, and such to design your 3D characters to star in your scenes. At first, you will feel amazed and awestruck, wanting to try absolutely everything and to see what sort of totally cool things you can make. Then you realize you have no idea what you’re doing and do the logical thing: go to the instructions.
While the software comes with a couple of tutorials that lay out the basics and even some things that are more complex, it’s easy to become lost with what to do because of the vast amount of controls. There are a lot of controls to working the Poser Debut software. A lot.
But with those lots of controls comes lots OF control. You can do almost anything with your model characters, this includes: dressing them up in clothing that you can change the color of, putting up an entire apartment with everything set up the way you want, you can even pose your characters up to smallest joint in the pinky. Your horizons are limitless, this also can make the software a tad overwhelming.
Dials manage everything and can be difficult to work with; something like a row of sliders would have been much easier to gauge things on. The camera can also be difficult to manage, since the cameras are in presets and moving them requires fiddling with the dials.
There’s a whole range of things you can control and do with Poser Debut, and I think that at its core, the program has the ability to create expansive projects. All of the things you can do are outlined and explained. For someone with time and patience, a lot can be done with Poser Debut and I have only scratched its potential.
Poser Debut is sold for $49.99 and is available on the SmithMicro.com site.
“I wrote this review while participating in a blog campaign and received a copy of the software to aid me in my review.”
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