Smith Micro Software Inc. Productivity and Graphics Group announced the availability of Poser 8, the next generation of the 3D figure design and animation solution. Poser 8 enables hobbyists, artists, and graphic professionals to create and digitally shape humans, animals, and scenes in 3D. Attendees can gain a quick demo of the new software in Booth #2407.
Poser 8 allows artists to work with avatars and all types of 3D characters, such as those inteded for use in advertising, video games, television, and full-length feature films. Poser 8 offers 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 range of accessories, such as hair, clothing, sets, and real-world props and elements , including lights and cameras, to produce complete scenes.
With Poser 8, new users and hobbyists can create entire, professional-quality scenes in minutes that use automatically generated walking, running, or dancing sequences and lifelike speaking capabilities, says a representative. Once created, users can post animations to YouTube or their favorite social networking sites.
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, continues the representative. 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. Other features include: cross-body morph brushes that permit a user to smoothly sculpt a figure across every body part, new photorealistic rendering to more accurately reproduce light and shadows, and improved character rigging for better character bending.
Poser 8 is priced at $249.99 with upgrades from previous versions priced at $129.99.
Existing Poser Pro users upgrading to Poser 8 will be invited to the Poser Pro 2010 beta program in the coming months.