Whether you create for print, animation or the web, there’s always a need to integrate the human form. Poser 6 delivers the power of interactive 3D figure design, offering infinite opportunities to portray human diversity, form and expression. Design with the human form for art, illustration, animation, comics, web, print, education, medical visualization, games, storyboarding, and more!

With Poser you can design any figure you can imagine. An intuitive 3D toolset allows you to scale and manipulate individual body parts, design facial expressions, and pose figures. Male, female, children, mannequin, and animal models can be rendered as wireframes, skeletons, silhouettes or figures.

Poser can render out for any medium of your choice. The same figure or scene can be rendered in many styles including photorealism, cartoon, sketch, Flash, wireframe, silhouette and more.

Bring your scenes to life by animating figures, props, cameras, lights, and even materials. With Poser 6’s Animation palette and Keyframe controls, you can dive right in and start animating your scenes.

Explore Poser’s ability to add dynamic hair and cloth to your figure. These dynamic props move with your figure and can even be engineered to react to wind in animations...

New High-resolution, fully rigged Male, Female, Boy and Girl figures plus nine categories of content including a wide variety of figures in various preset poses, as well as props, lights, cameras, accessories and materials...

Poser 6 includes a rich set of new features, including all-new male, female, and children figures, OpenGL previews, new photorealistic rendering capabilities, enhanced cartoon imagery rendering, and improved Flash support.

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

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 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?

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

• Photorealism
  Poser 6 allows you to quickly design and pose pre-rigged figures, or create original figures to suit your needs. With professional lighting effects and shading materials, a large library of content and photorealistic textures, you can create professional-quality imagery and movies. You can also integrate with other 3D applications, or composite photorealistic imagery into your favorite image editing or motion graphics programs. Just some of the features in Poser 6 include: accurate human male, female and children 3D models; large libraries of content included; quick design/pose pre-rigged figures with full morph target sets; realistic perspective in 3D space; and professional lighting effects and procedural shader material trees
• Camera Controls
  Cameras represent your window into the Poser workspace. You can use them as a director would, to set up your ideal camera shots for each image or animation frame. Or, you can take advantage of the benefit that comes with 3D work, of being able to render a scene from multiple angles. In either case, Poser 6 offers multiple configurable cameras to facilitate your creative workflow. Poser includes a variety of independent cameras for viewing your scene, and a four-pane camera view. All are easily controlled with an innovative Trackball control for intuitive scene setup.
• Realistic Lighting
  Lighting is an essential component of any 3D image. Lights add colors, cast shadows, create specific effects, and set the tone for your scene. Poser 6’s light controls allow you to add and individually configure different types of light sources in your Poser scene. When these light configuration options are combined with Poser 6’s powerful rendering tools, the lighting possibilities are unlimited.
• Bone Rigging
  Create new, fully poseable Poser figures from any 3D object in a few easy steps. Import 3D geometry, break it into body parts and generate new Poser figures. You can even create Inverse Kinematics (IK) chains. Inverse Kinematics (IK) delivers natural character motion by modeling the hierarchical interactions of bones and joints, so that when you move a hand, the arm naturally follows.
• OpenGL Preview
  New OpenGL hardware acceleration offers improved performance with figure Posing and Preview renders. Easily switch between SreeD Software and OpenGL. Hardware rendering for scene previews means you can maximize your system’s resources and spend your time creating rather than waiting.
• 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.

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.

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.

Poser 6

Poser user since Version 3.
Poser continues to improve.
More life-like, faster.

poser6/shade bundle

Very good package, having used poser2 for some time 6 is a great improvement, loads of tools and facillities make it challanging at times to use but the results are worth it.

I enjoy Poser 6 A LOT!!!

You will probably read 50/50 from the reviews on this software. Having used the older Poser software... One thing I am a fan of is Miki and Terai Yuki...Japanese virtual beauties and if you are a fan of Japanese styled video games and the character designs, the fact that e-frontier is now the company behind Poser 6, I’m so stoked.

Granted, the software with bundles (best to buy it bundled with other cool software), there is a free software out called Daz3D. Daz3D content creators make stuff for Daz3D and Poser and vice versa but no matter if you go with the free program or Poser 6, the result will be the same...expect to pay money for content.

I highly recommend getting the book "Pratical Poser 6" because it’s very, very informative unlike the manual. Next thing...before you buy...mosey down to daz3d.com, contentparadise.com, renderosity.com and ask yourself, can you afford to buy the content. Content costs anywhere from free to over $100+.

And the good stuff costs money...maybe not a lot but it does add up. The next thing to know is that after you buy the content, due to how the hair or clothing conforms to the body (or how it’s placed), they are not organized. To make matters worse is that the names that the creators have called their work are long that the window for the selections (Figure, Pose, Hair, Prop, etc.) can get cut off and so, it becomes a bit of a choir to go back and forth to certain folders.

But I got used to it and the thing is ....all developers for the content are helpful. Content Paradise is a great place to buy your content as well as from the creators websites as well.

There is a lot of trial and error and I wish there were more undos...because really, although there is an undo...you mess up...you can’t just undo...you have to start over your from your save file (and hopefully you saved).

Nevertheless, the stuff I was able to create in Poser is wonderful. I will say that I have spent a lot not just on the Poser and the bundle but the content. It adds up quickly!!! So, consider the benefits for you. Although I love the characters from Daz3D and the ever popular Foxhair, I’m more a fan for Poser but still expect to be buying content from Dax3D for use of poser.

If you are going to buy it don’t buy direct from eFrontier...

...buy it here and save $s!

Shipping cost from the UK added $46.95 to the price AND a Foreign Debit Card Transaction fee of $2.51 for a waste of $49.46 that could have been spent getting additional models.

Or get the download version and save even more as like someone else pointed out, the included manual is near useless and has not improved since version 4. Practical Poser 6 is still the best book to get if you are serious about doing Poser 6 development.

good program

**things i liked about the program

it supports importing ojb files, that i make in different modeling programs

the walking path editor works not too bad for simulated walking

and the rigs have good looking emontions when you moves there face features


**what i found to be not so good

the tabs such as the library and keyframe bar are kind of hidden on the side because of his small they are.

I find the slection tool in the hair room to be alittle bit annoying when trying to grow dynamic hair groups. i most of the time end up growing hair on too many facets.

the control points are too senative, they end up twisting the body in un-natrual forms.

the rendering takes a very long, and the rendering shader doesent always save my settings. i end up transporting the animation to another program to render faster.

some of the cloths i cant set them up to be childern to the body parts so they end up not being connected to anything.


i’m sure there more on my mind by i dont have much time to write up an review. just keep in mind 3d animation isnt perfectly easy. a good modeling programs to make OBJ files will go a long way.

A Good Solid Program

Poser 6 is, in short an AWESOME program to use, easy to learn and capable of fantastic rendering results.

However, it is VERY memory intensive - I have 512mb DDR RAM and it can easily take the lions share of that - slowing the system down. Solution - have a machine with a lot of memory - I’d say 1-2gb would be for the best with this program.

A stunning Program

I would recommend this program to everyone as the ability of this program is far superior to any of the other so called "3D MODELING PROGRAM’S" as a user of poser 4 and 5 this one has lived upto expectations a friend has purchesed this one and let me have a go at creating a model.

The program is quick to load and is fun to use. I wish all the poserer’s out there god speed in getting Poser 6.

An Excellent Beginning to E-Frontier’s ownership of Poser

Well, Curious Labs is now owned by e-frontier, a Japanese software company know for its other 3d program Shade 7. After the fiasco of Poser 5 I stayed with Pro Pack till this came along. There were a few issues but a service release was quickly put out to fix them.

If you’ve not used a program like this before it’s best to imagine it as a kind of virtual photography/film studio. Unlike other 3d software, you’re not expected to create models yourself, there is a large set that come with the package and there are many, many more that can be purchased on-line. Like the photographer, you choose your set, arange your props, pose your models (choosing their wardrobe and hairstyle), set up the lighting, position your camera, set the focal length, and then render the picture. Snap! These images may stand as they are or provide the base material to take into a paint program for further work. It is an excellent tool for illustrators and artists on a budget - nothing this powerful in 3d comes close to this price. You can also produce animations which can be output in avi format or FLASH.

All the old features are here from Poser 5, with dynamic hair much improved upon. The Cloth is about the same but good nontheless. The best new tricks are in the rendering. New point lights make lighting much easier, Image Based Lighting creates photoreal environments, ambient occlusion adds all those little shadows to lift the image into true 3d feel. Sub surface scattering is now available, making skin ever more real.

All the old models are here, some gathering dust since Poser 3. There is, of course, a new set of human figures that are the best Poser defaults to date. They are not without faults but they have plenty of strengths, particularly with regards to their faces - the P5 people were just plain ugly.

Another inclusion from Poser 5 is the Content Paradise. This is a portal to an on-line store to purchase new content. When launched with P5, there was a lot of annoyance about it, this time nobody seems to mind - they’ve actually done a rather nice job of it and there’s a free model every week just to keep folk happy. One of the content produces most central to the Poser community has been missed out from the CP line up, that is DAZ: you can find them here: www.daz3d.com

The reason for their ommision is probably because they are developing a rival program called DAZ Studio that they are offering free. However, if you are serious about using this kind of software, DAZ Studio doesn’t cut it. It lacks a lot of functionality and rendering tricks that you will have to pay for latter.

The manual is rather well written this time but if you have trouble with it, there is a wealth of on line support from communities where people fall over themselves to help if they can!

All in all, I would say that this is an excellent buy and at this price, you can’t go wrong.