Poser 6/Shade LE: 3D Figure Design and Animation Solution

List Price: $249.99 Discount Price: $447.75

Features:

• New Shadow Catcher feature enables you to separate shadows from theirunderlying surface, and put them virtually anywhere
• Expand your cartoon universe with Toon Outline -- it draws an outline around the edges of cartoon images
• Ambient occlusion brings your figures to life with a natural lighting environment
• Design and pose pre-rigged figures, or create original figures to suit your needs -- the large library of content and photorealistic textures help you create professional-quality imagery and movies
• Use the Camera controls like a film director would -- set up your ideal camera shots for each image or animation frame

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Customer Reviews:

Much room for improvement... [Posted on 2006-10-17]
As has been previously pointed out, Poser 6 seems to have been designed by a committee of people..that did not much like each other.
The user interface is pretty terrible. It seriously needs revamping to a more Windows-like format.

The cration of figures yields very good results on the other hand, although additional content can run into big bucks. Be warned.

My biggest beef with Poser 6 is with applying clothing to the model. It is ludicrously hard to do. It is TEDIOUS to the point of suicidal depression. There has GOT to be a better way.
Actually... there is a better way: placing the artical of clothing in position , the "shrink-wrapping" it around the figure, using the polys of thye figure itself as a guide. I do not have the coding skills to write such a sub-routine myself, but there are plenty of people that do.

Poser 7 is supposed to be coming out this year right in time for Xmas. I REALLY hope efrontiers is not doing a rush job on getting Poser 7 out in time. That was done with Poser 5 when it was released and proved a serious botch job. Poser 6 is only a marginal improvement over it's predecessor. I am hoping 7 will be a REAL improvement.

What the program REALLY needs is a complete, top-to-bottom redesign; from scratch. What we have actually seen so far is new versions of the same old thing; a patch, on a patch, on a patch.

Shade LE? [Posted on 2006-12-05]
I received the bundle but there is no installation key for Shade LE.

I noticed the someone else's review stating this same problem is no longer visible so I figured I'd post it again.

Merits Need to Be Proven [Posted on 2006-12-26]
In theory and ideal this an incredibly wonderful package with great expectations.Since personally I have not created anything better,yet,it is difficult to ridicule,but I must say the bugs should have been minimized before the next version was released which no doubt is plagued with the aforesaid problems.The copy I received was not full functioning as they set claims for it to be and appeared less than a demo version which was available for free.Many of its claimed functions did not,i.e. realistic hair design and motion,animated movement(walk path acted like fly by,but was interesting,thought provoking),charactar foldrs wouldnot open and import from Shader was null and character creation was non existant.It has a face morph which does layer faces onto some heads,feature morh works limitedly(aging,facial nuiscances) but would not export to working scene image and were stuck in creation room.Customer service was great need,I did admittedly pester them daily with reports of bugs and failures with detailed actions as atempts of work arounds.Import export features too limited for productivity or usage.Concidering I had purchsed a several hundred meg GPU card for such works with multipipe lines this was very perpplexing tool(or toy) to deal with,animation was never simple for quality in film or video,

poser 6  [Posted on 2007-01-09]
this product is extremely difficult to learn. I recently purchased two more expensive manuals ro learn the process and also the tutorials the company has are beyond the average users learning.

Poser 6 Review [Posted on 2007-03-10]
I got frustrated trying make humanoid figures in Blender, so i purchased Poser6. From the outset the default figures are very good. It didnt take me long to learn how to add hair, clothing and deform the figures. But thats as far as i got. There are so many variables that affect the final render, such as lighting, skin textures, etc. This package is for experienced users. I have since sold my Poser package, as it was far too complex for what i expected.

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