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. * 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. 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 VTC Poser 8 Introduction New in Poser 8 (03:05) System Preferences (03:15) Input Devices (02:54) 3D Primer Coordinate System (03:26) Navigation (02:51) The Interface Poser Workspace (04:06) Viewports (02:32) Tracking Modes (02:47) Palettes (03:01) Memory Dots (03:49) Library (03:45) Preferences (04:02) Cameras pt. 1 (04:46) Cameras pt. 2 (02:18) Restore (03:16) Pose Figures Pose Tools (06:08) Parameter Dials (03:36) Symmetry (03:42) Inverse Kinematics (02:37) Selecting Elements (02:30) Auto Balance (04:04) Library Poses (03:45) Add Figures (02:55) Save to Library (02:59) Work with Props Add Props (03:58) Prop Hair (02:02) Pose Props (03:14) Prop Hierarchy (03:47) Import Props (03:35) Face Room Face Tools (03:36) Prepare Photos (04:19) Import Photos (03:41) Adjustments (02:54) Tweaking (02:58) Hair Room Hair Tools (03:20) Style Hair (04:20) Color Hair (03:29) Hair Dynamic (02:49) Cloth Room Cloth Tools (05:16) Control Cloth (03:50) Materials (02:51) Cloth Dynamics (03:54) Wind (05:22) Materials Room Nodes & Tools (04:04) Color Maps (04:04) Bump Maps (03:03) Reflection Maps (03:28) Procedurals (04:02) Transparency Maps (04:19) Toon Shading (03:19) Lighting Light Controls (02:51) Color & Intensity (02:02) Light Types (02:27) Shadows (03:13) Diffuse IBL (02:28) Reflection (05:35) Refraction (04:19) Ambient Occlusion (03:32) Shadow Pass (04:08) Morph Target Morph Targets (03:25) Body Shaping pt. 1 (04:30) Body Shaping pt. 2 (03:03) Animation The Timeline (03:14) The Graph (03:27) Animation (04:24) Talk Designer pt. 1 (04:09) Talk Designer pt. 2 (03:42) Walk Designer pt. 1 (05:27) Walk Designer pt. 2 (03:20) Rendering Settings (03:36) Selective Rendering (02:59) Anti-aliasing (01:50) Firefly pt. 1 (04:38) Firefly pt. 2 (06:22) Sketch (02:55) Outputv Render Images (02:35) Render Animation (03:22) Project: Poser Illustration Project Overview (02:39) Gather Assets (03:27) Exporting Ryan (03:12) Illustration pt. 1 (05:36) Illustration pt. 2 (03:40) Illustration pt. 3 (05:44) Illustration pt. 4 (03:50) Illustration pt. 5 (03:12) Project: Custom Textures Project Overview (01:02) Custom Wood (04:06) Faking Shadows (03:26) Grunge & Dirt (04:00) Custom Bump Maps (03:00) Agent Ryan pt. 1 (03:26) Agent Ryan pt. 2 (04:00) Agent Ryan pt. 3 (05:50) Agent Ryan pt. 4 (05:10) Agent Ryan pt. 5 (04:13) Project: Custom Props Project Overview (02:34) Free Textures (02:13) Base Mesh (04:46) Table pt. 1 (04:52) Table pt. 2 (02:54) Table pt. 3 (03:37) Project: Still Life Project Overview (02:50) Space (04:59) Reference (05:53) Still Life pt. 1 (06:26) Still Life pt. 2 (05:26) Still Life pt. 3 (05:48) Still Life pt. 4 (05:25) Texture Assets (03:59) Comp pt. 1 (06:13) Comp pt. 2 (06:32) Comp pt. 3 (04:59) Resources Websites (03:01) Downloads (01:57) Magazines (03:17) Wrap Up Review (03:20) Credits About the Author (02:29)