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How did you get started in Poser?
And what were you trying to achieve
with it? Poser has come a long way
from being merely an artist's
reference. It has now become a
tool that a 3D artist can use as a
means to create pure 3D art.
I first saw the Poser program in a
software catalog. I was just about to
head out the door to order it when I
pulled the latest catalog out of my
mailbox and found that version 2 had
just been released. I had been
drawing since I was a teenager, and
my landscape and architectural
sketches were good, but a lot can be
calculated mathematically in scenes
like those. The human figure was
much more of a challenge. So the
advertisement for Poser looked very
intriguing. When I installed it, I was
underwhelmed. I wanted to do big,
muscular men, and Poser 2's figures
were merely mannequins. The
program sat on my hard drive for
years, and I continued to sketch
clipping thousands of pictures from
magazines, calendars, and photo
studios for reference. I'd been
bodybuilding since I was 18, and the
knowledge of muscles and anatomy
was invaluable in helping my
sketches along, but they were never
what I wanted. They were little more
than outlines. Shading, lighting, and
just sensing something as three
dimensional eluded me. I could see
and compose all that in my head, but
I couldn't transfer it to paper.
(continued)
And what were you trying to achieve
with it? Poser has come a long way
from being merely an artist's
reference. It has now become a
tool that a 3D artist can use as a
means to create pure 3D art.
I first saw the Poser program in a
software catalog. I was just about to
head out the door to order it when I
pulled the latest catalog out of my
mailbox and found that version 2 had
just been released. I had been
drawing since I was a teenager, and
my landscape and architectural
sketches were good, but a lot can be
calculated mathematically in scenes
like those. The human figure was
much more of a challenge. So the
advertisement for Poser looked very
intriguing. When I installed it, I was
underwhelmed. I wanted to do big,
muscular men, and Poser 2's figures
were merely mannequins. The
program sat on my hard drive for
years, and I continued to sketch
clipping thousands of pictures from
magazines, calendars, and photo
studios for reference. I'd been
bodybuilding since I was 18, and the
knowledge of muscles and anatomy
was invaluable in helping my
sketches along, but they were never
what I wanted. They were little more
than outlines. Shading, lighting, and
just sensing something as three
dimensional eluded me. I could see
and compose all that in my head, but
I couldn't transfer it to paper.
(continued)
