Poser by MetaCreations Features: 3-D
character animation software. More options for shading models. Facial structure
and final appearance can be completely customized. More than 60 fully textured
3-D figures. Product Description: Amazon.com: Poser is an
easy-to-use animation tool, with dozens and dozens of prebuilt models of men,
woman, children, animals, props, and assorted clothes and objects. Unlike many
3-D animation programs, though, Poser doesn't require massive amounts of memory
or a warp-speed processor. It runs well on machines with modest amounts of RAM
and 200 MHz processors, although it does consume quite a bit of disk space
(about 600 MB on a Mac and about 350 MB on a PC). Poser can output to a variety
of common formats, such as QuickTime on a Mac or AVI on a Windows PC, and it
can import models in DXF and OBJ formats. It's possible to build models in
other programs and import them to Poser, but setting up the skeleton hierarchy
is cumbersome. Poser's strongest feature is the natural media render engine.
MetaCreations has built on its experience from the wonderful program Painter
and brought that handmade look into Poser. The number of variables one can
tweak is impressive: sketch style, line density, line width, paper texture,
etc. Poser is a great tool for getting into computer-animation rendering of 3-D
humans (and animals). --Mike Caputo
 $99 Mac and Windows platform versions are on the same
CD.
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