Over a Dozen New Major Features Make 3D Figure Art and Animation
Creation Easier Than Ever with Eight New Characters
Smith Micro Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMSI) Productivity and Graphics
Group today announced the availability of Poser® 8, the next
generation of the popular 3D figure design and animation solution. Poser
8 enables hobbyists, artists, and graphic professionals to create and
digitally shape humans, animals and entire scenes in 3D. Visit booth
#2407 for a quick demo of the new software in action.
Poser 8 allows artists to work with avatars and all types of 3D
characters, such as giant ogres and talking chipmunks that proliferate
in advertising, video games, television and full-length feature films.
Poser 8 acts as a virtual stage, offering eight new, ready-to-pose,
fully-textured humans of different ethnicities and body types to give
artists a starting point in designing their characters. The new Poser
content library provides more than 2.5 gigabytes of human and animal
figures accompanied by a wide range of accessories including hair,
clothing, sets and real-world props and elements such as lights and
cameras to produce complete scenes.
For many years, creating 3D characters was beyond the budget and ability
of novice users. Many amateur 3D artists inspired by the stunning images
shown in computer-generated films could not afford the expensive and
complex software needed to create animations. With Poser 8, new users
and hobbyists can create entire, professional-quality scenes in minutes
that utilize automatically-generated walking, running or dancing
sequences and lifelike speaking capabilities. Once created, users can
post their animations to YouTube or any of their favorite social
networking sites.
“Poser is about access. It provides artists access to everything needed
to create virtually any scene imaginable, including access to 3D
figures, powerful tools such as a dependent parameter feature that makes
working with characters easy, and an entire world of scene assets to
build upon,” said Steve Cooper, Senior Product Manager of Graphics
Solutions for Smith Micro Software, Inc. “We have built upon the key
elements behind Poser’s accessibility and transformed the application
into a faster, more efficient product, while preserving the user
experience so familiar to existing customers.”
The new, streamlined interface of Poser 8 maximizes screen real estate
and provides an intuitive workflow, plus a new search-enabled library
that helps artists easily browse and organize their content. New
professional-quality tools and features are included in Poser 8 such as
a dependent parameter editor that lets users “teach” objects in a scene
to interact with each other, simplifying complex body movement.
