Why I buy this one ?
- New Shadow Catcher feature enables you to separate shadows from their underlying 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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What our customer's say!

"Poser 6 Review", 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.

"poser 6 ", 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.

"Merits Need to Be Proven", 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,

"Shade LE?", 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.

"Much room for improvement...", 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.

Read this reviews before You buy...

"Great product for the price you pay!", I see a lot of bad reviews for Poser 6 but that didn't stop me from buying it. It seems to me that everyone is hung up on the fact that it's hard to use or doesn't compare to their idolized ideals of what they were hoping for. Of course Poser is hard! You don't paint your first painting and expect it to come out like a Picasso do you? You don't buy a skateboard and expect to skate like Tony Hawk as soon as you get it home right? So why expect to be able to fully comprehend a new piecse of sophisitcated software in just a few quick clicks. No matter what you do you have to learn (and I'd like to stress the word LEARN) all the basics and then move on to the tricks of the trade. I love Poser 6 it's not that hard to use if you take some time and work through some tutorials and read some hints from the online community. I also baought the book Poser 6 Revealed: The official guide and that helped as well. I bought Poser 6 about 5 months ago and work with it maybe 2 hours a week. All in all I've put in about one full-time work week over the past 5 months and I've gotten to the point where I'm able to create some decent beginners work. I started with no knowledge of digital art at all and now have a good basic understanding. If I can do it so can you. If you want to create digital art look at the other programs of similar type, most cost well over the price you pay for poser and have their own problems and user interfaces that you will spend about as much time learning as you will with Poser.

"Pretty pictures, if you can find the parts", The new Poser is nice enough, with lots of installed content. The pictures generated are reasonable. After the initial eye candy is gone, the annoyances start. It's like they didn't use the software before sending it out to market. Any user who purchases enough of the excellent 3rd party content (to fill up the worlds) will soon become extremely bogged down in the endless search for required components that are scattered all over the place. The figures are in one place, the textures in another, and the poses are scattered to high heaven. The camera are a real mess. Sure, there are lots of cameras, but if you switch from one to another the camera moves! Now why would it do that? Instead of changing the rotation axis for the current view, you are now upside down or behind a wall. Choose another figure, and you get the same effect. You need a different pose? Navigate up, and it resets to the top of the menu, not where you came from. Hmmm, where is that pose... Third party content is even worse, since most developers don't even call the folders the same thing in the seven places where the content was installed. The readme files are even worse, and they can't even fix on one naming convention for the readme folder. Sure would be nice if the current selected folder for poses/figures/etc would depend on the character selected, but switching from a female to male figure leaves you in the original place. Pretty dress for Michael. I use the program, but I find myself yelling "WRONG!" more and more. A good program if you have low blood pressure and need help getting your heart to beat faster.

Don't EVEN get me started about the clothing. Do they fit if you change the body with the touted new morphs? NOPE! This program feature is really nice if you want to model a nudists' colony, but after that the morphs are USELESS!

Sigh.

"Not at all pleased with the program", This program is not at all what we were lead to believe it was. We comparison shopped & tried a demo version. When that actual program came, everything we had learned on the demo was basically worthless. I agree with those who said that the manual is useless. It seems to send you from page to page without ever really giving you the information you are seeking. We also had problems getting answers from Curious Labs as we attempted to use this software.
Our teenage daughter did enjoy the process of creating her own characters, but that was the only positive experience had by anyone in this house. Overall, our attempts at using this program were frustrating & unless you have a lot of background with this type of software (or you have nothing better to do for the next several months) I wouldn't recommend it.

"Great low-end introduction to 3D rendering", The first part of my review is for those new to Poser, the second part is for those who have used previous versions of Poser.

For new users: I love using Poser to create characters for works of fiction and roleplaying games. You can create amazing art with Poser, but don't expect to create the sorts of images you see on display at sites like Renderosity or Daz3d with Poser right out of the box. A lot of those beautiful Poser renders require extensive "postwork" in Photoshop. Also, be warned that Poser is addictive -- you'll find yourself buying more and more models and props to use in your renders. The set that comes with Poser is enough to do basic scenes with human and animal figures, and you can find a lot of "freebies" online, enough to build up an extensive library, but I've wound up spending more money on props than I did on the software! For creating characters, Poser is an intermediate application with a lot more power than some of the cheap or free software you can find online for creating avatars, Sims people, etc. But if you want to become a professional 3D artist, you're eventually going to invest in one of the high-end packages like Maya or 3dsMax that costs thousands of dollars. Still, Poser is enormously popular and a lot of hobbyists have started a nice little home business for themselves by creating and selling their own Poser models. (This takes a lot of skill, it's not something you can pick up in a few days.)

Poser can do animations, but it's a laborious process. Short animations (appropriate for an animated GIF) are one thing, but I doubt you'd want to try to create a complicated movie running more than a minute or two using Poser.

For experienced Poser users: As a Poser 5 user, I found transitioning to Poser 6 was fairly painless. While the user interface has changed a little (particularly in the Materials room), it's not too different and most of what you did in Poser 5 will be done the same way in Poser 6. I haven't noticed a difference in rendering speed, and I've found a lot of features seem to work better (I have less difficulty with dynamic clothing or adding multiple Runtimes, for example). Overall, I like it, and think it is an improvement over Poser 5, though if you are wondering whether it's worth an upgrade, I'd have to say that Poser 6 doesn't have that many new features. (I haven't been terribly impressed with the Toon Renderer or the simplified Materials interface.) So, it's nice to get the upgrade but I wouldn't say it's a "must have."

The Shade LE add-on is interesting. I haven't played with it a lot, since I do more rendering than modeling, but if you want to dive into modeling, the software is fairly full-featured and the PDF documentation is not bad.

"Poser 6 is slow and Curiouslabs is not responsive", This review refers to the PC version
Pros:
1. Great fun to work with Poser.
2. Nice renderings.
3. Neat new features including taking advantage of your graphics card.

Cons:
1. Animations take much longer than Poser 5. They take so long that you really can't consider making a film with this program unless you have a super computer.
2. New company name and attitude, Curiouslabs is longer the company that supports Poser. EFRONTIERS no longer has a phone number that you can reach them at except for sales.
3. They have refused to fix a problem with Poser 5 that prevents it from running on Windows XP with Service Pack 2.
4. They had a lag time of over a week responding to an email.
5. Poser 6 feels like it was designed by 6 different people. What I mean by that is each area of the program requires a different approach to master it.
6. Since they finally wrote back to me I'd give them 3 stars but this program won't let me.
7. Also watch out for their "Content Paradise". The site doesn't work more than it does. I was recently charged twice for an $15 item. I wrote to them over two weeks ago and still haven't heard a thing.