Practical Poser 7 (Graphics Series) | List Price: $49.95
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Binding: Paperback
Not worth buying. [Posted on 2007-08-24]
I bought this book thinking it would be as good as Practical Poser 6. It isn't. At best this is an intro to Poser possibilities. It doesn't completely walk you through anything. It hints and suggests you might be able to do some things with Poser 7 but then directs you to free websites to actually learn how to do them. If you can use Google, then you don't need this book.
Practical Poser 7 [Posted on 2007-10-25]
I'm about a quarter of the way through this book. So far, it has all the detail I'm looking for.
The biggest knock I have against it is, on the back of the book, it says the CD has "all the files for the tutorials, including necessary Poser content, textures, and images". THAT IS A LIE.
I had to write to the publisher to find out that you do, indeed, have to purchase content, if you want to use the same content that is used in the tutorials.
Rather disappointing [Posted on 2008-05-05]
Let me preface this review by stating that I've produced my own Poser-related tutorials for several years. I've earned some decent recognition from companies such as CuriousLabs and DAZ3D. My web site:
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I've found the Poser manuals to be a huge disappointment over the years. I went to the forums, and asked many questions. All too often I found the answers were inadequate. People just didn't seem to relate things in a way I could understand. That's when I started teaching myself, and writing tutorials in a style that I could understand.
My tutorials are well received by newbies all around the world.
My Poser-related pursuits have been rather unsophisticated. I'd hoped to learn some of the more complex aspects of Poser. I'd read positive reviews of this author for years, and decided to take a chance with her latest book.
Unfortunately, the book appears to be a rehash of what's covered in the manual.
Or at least, there wasn't enough depth in the areas I wanted to learn. I won't buy any more books in that series.
Besides I grew pretty disillusioned with Poser as of Poser 6.
I've been using DAZ|Studio since it was publicly released.
Sure wish practical meant 'simple' to understand. [Posted on 2008-07-04]
If the authors of Practical Poser 7 & Poser 7 Revealed had bothered to write their books with beginners in mind. It would have been a tremendous help. I took a computer class where the instructor stressed the KISS! (Keep It Simple, STUPID!) approach to teaching. The authors of these books seem to want to overwhelm the reader with their 'brilliance' when it comes to how to use Poser. The authors are so busy 'showing off' how smart they are, they forget all about the students they're 'supposed' to be teaching!
Neither of these books saw fit to provide a simple illustrated set of 'step-by-step' instruction that would teach a completely new user of Poser 7 how to do anything. Just why is it that beginner users of Poser 7 and computer programs in general are treated with such derision and scorn by the people who buy their products?
At last! Some POSER information that makes sense! [Posted on 2008-07-28]
My last experience with POSER was ver.4 and I found it hard to understand and was less than satisfed with the results... I recently saw an advertisement for version 7 and was amazed at how much the program had advanced, now incorporating many features used in high-end CGI productions. My problem was, although I had ideas I wanted to realize I still didn't really know how to drive Poser... The supplied reference manual was poorly constructed and too technical for a semi-luddite like me!
I searched Amazon for any "how to" books and saw 'Practical Poser 7" unfortunately the book reviews accompianing it did not give a really good idea of what it was about, so ordering it was a bit of a gamble...
As it was, I hit the jackpot! This is the book I needed to make sense of Poser. The examples are laid out in an understandable fashion and although they nescessarily deal with "technobabble" they approach it by assuming the reader does not nescessarily understand the terms or concepts and explains them in a simple manner. I could rapidly see how I could apply these tutorials to things I wanted to achieve, but had no idea of how to make Poser do them! Apart from a transposed illustration (fig 11.12) and one that appears wrong (Fig 11.16)the information all seems correct and I love the page layout with wide margins that leave plenty of room for notes. (and have already be covered with my scribblings and visual ideas sparked by the text!)
In conclusion, I would say this is the ideal book for those intimidated by Poser's supplied information and I would wholeheartedly reccommend it for anyone at my beginning level!
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