1. REVIEWS - Poser 6/Shade LE: 3D Figure Design
and Animation Solution
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Product Feature
New Shadow Catcher feature enables you toq
separate shadows from their underlying surface,
and put them virtually anywhere
Expand your cartoon universe with Toon Outline --q
it draws an outline around the edges of cartoon
images
Ambient occlusion brings your figures to life with aq
natural lighting environment
Design and pose pre-rigged figures, or createq
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 wouldq
-- set up your ideal camera shots for each image or
animation frame
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Product Description
Poser 6 brings the art of figure design and posing right to your desktop. Start designing and posing immediately,
with new high-resolution, fully rigged male, female, boy and girl 3D figures. The rich content libraries have 9
categories, including a wide variety of figures in various preset poses, as well as props, lights, cameras,
accessories and materials. Create personalized heads and textures in the Face Room, by using just two
photographs. Bring your scenes to life by animating figures, props, cameras, lights, and even material, and
eliminate much of the repetitive work by designing and applying motion cycles. Realistic Lighting - Add colors,
cast shadows, create specific effects, and set the tone for your scene Bone Rigging creates fully poseable Poser
figures from any 3D object in a few easy steps Inverse Kinematics (IK) delivers natural character motion by
modeling the hierarchical interactions of bones and joints New OpenGL hardware acceleration for scene
previews, letting you maximize your rendering time Photo-based facial mapping for lifelike facial modeling and
texture maps Read more
Product Description
Poser 6 brings the art of figure design and posing right to your desktop, with an innovative UI to make working
with the human form easily accessible. Included human and animal models come ready for you to start
designing and posing immediately. You can click-and-drag to interactively sculpt faces, pose body parts, or

2. create various ethnic varieties. For those who require finer control, full body morphs, facial expression morphs,
and bone rigging are easily accessible for any figure. All features and models are provided in a natural 3D
environment for realistic depth, lighting and shadowing on any figure in any pose. You can pose any figure by
clicking and dragging a body part. With Document Display Styles you can view and design your figure in
silhouette, outline, wireframe, textured, and more. The program lets you manipulate individual body parts,
including the full body, facial expressions and fully articulated hands, and interactively sculpt and design
figures in real time, including the body and facial expressions. Object-level Collision Detection helps with posing
and avoids collisions when animating.
What's New in Poser 6?

3. • New Figures
Poser 6 introduces James and Jessi, new figures with amazing realism to
bring a new level of photorealstic content to your artwork. Both figures
accurately depict the human form, have lifelike skin textures, and full
morph target sets to design your own custom figures with facial
expressions. Also included are new boy and girl children figures, Ben
and Kate, who complete the new Poser family. The new Poser figures
come with photorealistic texture maps, full body morphs, facial
expression morphs, and are fully rigged for posing.
• More Content
Poser's Content Paradise now includes a host of top content providers,
to bring you a diverse range of Poser 6 models, textures, poses,
character packs, utilities and free stuff. A redesigned interface makes
finding Poser content faster and easier than ever before.
• Enhanced UI
Poser's innovative UI is centered on a productive room-based
environment. Individual Pose, Setup, Materials, Hair and Cloth rooms
provide easy feature access for each step in the creative process. In
addition to rooms, Poser uses floating palettes and windows. You can
customize your Poser workspace by hiding/displaying and relocating
controls anywhere you like. You can even save up to nine different
screen configurations for the entire Poser workspace.
• Shadow Catching
Poser 6 introduces several new features to support artists in rendering
more true to life shadow effects. For example the NEW Shadow Catcher
feature enables you to separate shadows from their underlying surface,
and put them virtually anywhere. These new features make image
composition and integrating 3D figures into graphic design easier.
• New Toon Outlines
The New Toon Outline feature uses post-processing during rendering to
draw an outline around the edges of cartoon images. Poser 6 offers
customizable outline styles, enabling you to further personalize your
cartoon shading look. Add a distinctive style to any cartoon imagery for
comics. Now you have the choice to add outlines to any cartoon
imagery you create with Poser. This feature's effect is most dramatic
when combined with a cartoon shader node. Configurable Cartoon
Shading preview styles allow you to approximate the final render results
as you work.
• OpenGL
OpenGL delivers accelerated performance when previewing anything
from cartoon to photorealistic 3D figures. Now you can display vivid
textures and lighting in real-time when designing figures. You can even
render high resolution images using the OpenGL Preview renderer.
There are accelerated previews for your 3D scenes, so you can see vivid
textures and lighting in real-time. This feature works with all Document
Display Styles, including wireframe, cartoon, and more. You can render
out your 3D scene display with the OpenGL Preview renderer, and easily
switch between SreeD Software and OpenGL Hardware for scene
previews--which means you can maximize your system’s resources and
spend your time creating rather than waiting.
• New Ambient Occlusion
Ambient Occlusion makes figures seem as though they are in the
natural lighting environment of the real world. Ambient Occlusion is
available on every light to create accurate soft shadow effects, thus
giving scenes a new degree of realism. The new Ambient Occlusion
shader node makes figures and objects appear as though they are in a
natural lighting environment. Ambient Occlusion darkens surfaces
within a scene whose exposure to light is blocked by other objects. This
effect uses raytracing to calculate the degree to which other objects
within a scene occlude the ambient light of a surface at a given point.
Surfaces with more occlusion will be rendered as darker than surfaces
with little or no occlusion. You can set Ambient Occlusion lighting for all
objects, or select lighting effects focused on specific parts of your scene.
Meet James and Jessi
Expand your cartoon
universe with Toon Outline
Ambient occlusion
brings
your figures to life
More About Poser

4. Photo-based Facial Mapping
Want to create a virtual you? Friend? Import facial photos to easily model new characters and create texture
maps. Poser's Face Room allows you to create lifelike results by mapping any face onto a 3D head. You can
also generate new faces with a button click, or create caricatures for wild characters. Ethnicity, age, and
gender parameter controls round out this powerful set of facial tools. Read more