3D Community : Poser Curious Labs - Developers of Poser Initially developed as a utility for Fractal Design's Painter, which was purchased by MetaCreations, Poser has evolved into a serious 3D character design and animation program, under the development team at Curious Labs. CONTACT INFORMATION Curious Labs, Inc. 655 Capitola Road Suite 200 Santa Cruz, CA 95062 fax # (831)462-8925 Main Line: 831-462-8901 News Hotline: 831-462-8222 EMAIL Tech Support: tech@curiouslabs.com Customer Service: service@curiouslabs.com Sales: sales@curiouslabs.com General information: info@curiouslabs.com Employment: careers@curiouslabs.com News from Curious Labs Curious Labs™ Ships Poser® 5 Poser 5’s key new features include: FireFly Renderer: hybrid micro-polygon and Ray Trace render engine with subdivision surface rendering of polygons, which enables: Render-time polygon smoothing Displacement mapping 3D motion blur Depth of field Procedural textures Shader Trees with material nodes Ray Traced refraction and reflection Dynamic Hair with growth, styling and physics controls Dynamic Cloth with physics and parameter-controlled attributes Photo-based facial mapping, with a database of scanned 3D human heads and textures Morph Putty™ tool for interactive sculpting, and direct manipulation of facial expressions Hierarchical Parameters Palette with parameter grouping functionality Hierarchical Libraries with support for multiple Runtime folders All new highly accurate 3D human figures with fully articulated hands and feet, featuring photo-realistic texture maps and facial morphs from Runtime DNA Collision Detection Content Paradise portal for in-Poser 5 access to online content resources Vue d’Esprit Product Line to Feature Native Poser Animation June 17, 2002. Beaverton, OR. e-on software and Santa Cruz, California based Curious Labs have entered into a strategic agreement to enable Curious Lab’s Poser native animation technology in the Vue d’Esprit product line. Right Hemisphere Announces Partnership with Curious Labs for The Poser Community Poser 3D artists can now experience more amazing realistic 3D textures and creative control with Deep Paint 3D with Texture Weapons Curious Labs - Avatar Lab(tm). announced! This exciting new software tool allows you to create animated, interactive 3-D character based Avatars for Adobe Atmosphere worlds in minutes. MAXON Cinema 4D XL plug in Now Available Curious Labs announces the MAXON Cinema 4D XL plug in, available absolutely FREE to current owners of Poser Pro Pack. Visit www.curiouslabs.com/downloads to get the Windows version today, to see for yourself how powerful it is to be able to host Poser scene files seamlessly in Cinema 4D XL version 7! Poser Community 3-Axis Poser 5 De-Mystified { 2 hour video tutorial Bbay.com BBay Club is membership site where you can sell and buy Poser creations. Members get access to a weekly free download. Big-i Poser Conference Poser Forum Beyond Bent Poser site with tutorials, information, downloads and links. Curious Labs Report The Online Magazine for the Poser Community Hand Span Studio Characters for Poser, textures, tutorials, free downloads. Renderosity Definetly one for the bookmarks. Renderosity rocks! PhilC Models, Tutorials, Avatar Lab content and more Poser City 3D Community for Poser & 3D graphic fans Poser Forum Great Poser community site offering just about everything you'll want including tutorials, downloads, and links. Poserpros.com Poser Forums, gallery, and more. Rendez-vous3d.com Community Poser The very first 3D french-speaking Community on the Web ! La première communauté 3D avec boutique sur le net ! Cloths - Props - Characters - Morphs - Textures 3DAll Freebies section with some Poser stuff. Nice gallery. Animotions The 3d Comic Collective is the home of over 450 downloadable Poser Superhero files. Al's Place Al has some characters to download for both Poser 3 and 4 Baumgarten Enterprises Baumgarten Enterprises FREE 3D models for Poser and Bryce. Affordable Model collections on CD for sale. Content Paradise Content Paradise will enable Poser 5 users to search and browse a rich database of Poser content, then purchase and download their selected items. Daz 3D DAZ Productions, Inc. specializes in providing high-quality 3D models for Poser, the premier 3D character animation and figure design tool developed and published by Curious Labs, Inc. By using the power of emerging 3D creative technologies DAZ Productions pushes the limits of realism and versatility in the Virtual World. DAZ offers newly advanced 3D products and sponsors several brokering opportunities for talented artists who are interested in increasing exposure for their products. Dave's Comic Art Page DreamLand Poser textures, poses, and objects. Falcon Textures, props, characters, and related items can be found here. Ghastley Software GreyLight Quite a bit of everything, Poses, Props, Characters, cloths, hats, morphs Jackie's Stuff for Poser Jim Burton lynescreations Animal collections for sale. Ducks, Birds, Exotic and fantasy creatures. Nerd 3D Pam Cresswell Cloths and Characters. Lot's free, some for sale. Poser Chat For the poser artist chat with other Poser artists over the world. Poser World Pose Works Props Guild Obj format Props and textures for Poser R.S.O.B (Right Side of the Brain) Robin Wood Texture maps, props Sandy Lodge Graphics Schlabber Poses, Props and Faces. Scott Ayers Animals, Monsters, and toos like Godzilla, Triceratops, T-Rex, Homer, Roadrunner plus many others. SG 3D Studio 187 Click on the meshes button to see the cool weapons, and the poseable spider chick. Sixus1 Features a complete line of original models for Poser with support forums, tutorials, and freebies. Seventh Samurai High quality Poser characters, textures, objects and props. Specializing in anime-style artwork. Featuring Arisa, a new anime character for Daz 3d's Victoria model. Thorn Works Faerie wings and curious things. Offers 'Doll of the Month' free download, plus characters for sale. Tygerskin's Megastore Ultimate Dragon Virtual Heroes Zygote Media Group Quality models for sale individually, or in collections. All major 3D formats supported. Models available on CD or by download. Custom bids available on request. Motion files and Animation Forge Studio's Poseamation Offers a 4 CDROM collection of professional 3D character animations, still poses, and 3D models all in Poser format. House of Moves Zygote Good selection of CD collections of motion capture files for use in Poser. CharacterMotion.com Forums 3DLinks Poser Forums Renderosity Poser Forum Gallerys 3DLinks Poser Gallery Tutorials 3DLinks Poser Tutorial Links Utilities Body Studio BodyStudio seamlessly integrates Poser 3D character animation technology into Alias|Wavefront’s Maya, or Discreet's 3ds max This innovative plug-in allows Maya, and Max users to render and playback Poser animations. FixOBj Script If PHI Builder gives you a warning that your OBJ file contains relative vertices, Poser V3.0 will crash when converting the PHI file that uses it. If you can't wait for the Poser patch to fix this, here's a Perl script to fix it in the interim. You can load it up in any text editor, comments at the top of the file explain how to use it. Mac Compose Java wrapper to run Compose on a Mac Mimic Mimic® is an enhancement product for Curious Labs' Poser. Mimic provides a simple solution for automatically creating realistic lip-synched animations with Poser v. 3, 4 & 5. Morphman This program lets the user transfer morphs from one mesh to another with a point and click interface. Natural Pose Bring your animated Poser® 3, 4 or PPP characters into Bryce® 4.1 and Bryce® 5 seamlessly and easily. Objaction Scaler Objaction Scaler is a Windows tool which facilitates the transfer of .obj files between Poser and other 3D packages such as Studio Max and RDS5. Objaction Mover Objaction Mover is a Windows tool which allows the transfer of .obj files based on other copyright figures, for example the individual figures sold by Zygote. Mover extracts the differences between the original file and new modified file and it is only the differences that get sent. Phi Builder Want to bring your models into Poser so you can pose them? You'll need to make a PHI file. Roy has developed an application for easing what can be a hair-pulling experience. Poser Maconverter for PPC Macintosh completely converts all Poser 3/4 files in one stroke converts pre-built Geometries .rsr files creates .obj files for .rsr-only Geometries exports Poser files to all PC formats Poser SpeedBump GraphicConverter Bumpmap Filter adds a "Poser Bumpmap" conversion command to the "Effect" menu SENO Software P3dO Explorer is a light easy-to-use Image browser for Windows 95, 98 and NT with an Explorer-like interface. P3dO Explorer lets you view every common 2D file formats including Poser files preview. P3dO Explorer is extremely fast and well appreciated in the Poser community. See3D viewer is a standalone Poser files 3D viewer using DirectX 6.0 features. UVMapper UVMapper is a texture map template creation utility. It will import/export Wavefront (obj) 3D files and output 2D texture map templates, allowing you to Apply texture maps to any OBJ model, even if it has no texture coordinate data.