But it’s a feature that makes the user interface just that little bit more useable and friendly, and if you really don’t like the drag-docking, it takes one click to disable it.

Poser’s ability to relocate any of the tool boxes, including the Quick Start tutorial, is a little disconcerting if you’re not expecting the boxes to fly into their re-docking position (the default setting has you automatically re-dock anywhere you hover). It’s very easy to change everything from chin (forward/backward, pronounced/recessed, retracted/jutting, shallow/deep, small/large, short/tall), to ethnicity, age, and gender. Poser 9 has perfected the simplicity of controlling features, expressions, and detail like skin tones. You may also purchase (and sell) additional manipulative creations from Content Paradise, a “Poser market” Web site operated by Smith Micro, Poser’s publisher.Īlthough Poser 9 can create scenery and props–even things as complicated as cars–the program excels at the manipulation of figures. You can import your own in a number of formats as well. Poser 9 screenshotPoser 9 comes bundled with more than 1.7 GB of skeleton, nude, animal, and cartoon/fantasy/anime characters plus clothing, hair, props, scenery, and textures. Whether that figure is an animal, human, or alien, Poser 9 can make it dance. The program makes it so easy to get started with 3D modeling, it’s the go-to tool anytime you need to manipulate or animate a 3D figure. Poser 9 ($250, buy-only) is not just for geeks wanting to create their very own Weird Science.

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