* 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)

Homepage: http://my.smithmicro.com/win/poser/index.html


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