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Naes3d · 19th August 2007, 19:43

We are saying the same thing Thomas

I initially purchased Poser when it was a Metacreations product. Back then, it was marketed as a tool that would help artists by making it easier to include the human body in complex compositions. It was just so easy that it attracted all the people to whom the human body is a source of fascination and/or frustration. Eventually, instead of using Poser characters to supplement a project (which I believe was the programs original intent) the figures became the project that other elements supplement. I haven't really used a version of Poser since version 3 (I think it lost it's focus at version 4). I tried version 5 to test out cloth but I wasn't getting the results I wanted for the effort I put in it.

Poser was like all of the MetaCreations products in that they were focused on making what artists did easier. For example, Raydream/Carrara (see? I brought it back to Carrara) made it easier for traditional artists to include other 3D elements in their compositions.

I think that all these programs are tools for creating compositional elements to a scene. Carrara does this very well. I have heard good things about Modo, but I have Carrara and Hex and between the two there shouldn't be anything I can't model.

(I also have trueSpace. I am not so sure I would say that Caligari is broke because of the PDF. It's just hard to create a manual for an unfinished program. But that's off topic...)

19th August 2007, 19:43	#65 (permalink)
Naes3d Box modeling Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 231	We are saying the same thing Thomas I initially purchased Poser when it was a Metacreations product. Back then, it was marketed as a tool that would help artists by making it easier to include the human body in complex compositions. It was just so easy that it attracted all the people to whom the human body is a source of fascination and/or frustration. Eventually, instead of using Poser characters to supplement a project (which I believe was the programs original intent) the figures became the project that other elements supplement. I haven't really used a version of Poser since version 3 (I think it lost it's focus at version 4). I tried version 5 to test out cloth but I wasn't getting the results I wanted for the effort I put in it. Poser was like all of the MetaCreations products in that they were focused on making what artists did easier. For example, Raydream/Carrara (see? I brought it back to Carrara) made it easier for traditional artists to include other 3D elements in their compositions. I think that all these programs are tools for creating compositional elements to a scene. Carrara does this very well. I have heard good things about Modo, but I have Carrara and Hex and between the two there shouldn't be anything I can't model. (I also have trueSpace. I am not so sure I would say that Caligari is broke because of the PDF. It's just hard to create a manual for an unfinished program. But that's off topic...)