The Easiest Way to Design with 3D FiguresWe ve all watched 3D movies or played 3D games and most of us have dreamed about making our own 3D art and animation. You probably thought that 3D software is too hard to learn or too challenging to be fun. Now there s Poser Debut. Finally there s an easy way to learn 3D and be creative even if you can t draw or have never taken an art class. Poser Debut is a 3D playground. Create scenes add 3D characters pose them animate them and make cool images or videos. It s easy. It s fun. It s Poser Debut. Poser Debut es with everything you need to get started in 3D. You ll quickly learn 3D with our easy to follow step by step project guide. And Poser Debut s library includes over 70 ready-to-pose 3D characters from cute cartoon characters and animals to robots and accurate photo-realistic humans. Poser Debut also includes lots of clothing props to build scenes cameras lights and pre-built poses that can be dropped right onto your characters. Within minutes you can start to render 3D scenes into gorgeous art and cool animations that will impress your family and friends. Features: The easiest way to learn 3D and have fun at the same time! You can create cool 3D art even if you can t draw or have never taken an art class. Affordable yet fully featured Poser Debut creates still images or animated videos. Poser Debut includes over 2 GBs of ready-to-go 3D content so you can get started right away. Learn the basics of 3D and 3D character animation with our easy to follow step by step project guide. Expand your 3D skills with included training videos and tutorials. Add additional content by connecting with Content Paradise .System Requirements: Windows: 7 Vista XP; 700 MHz Pentium class or patible (1 GHz or faster remended); Windows Inter Explorer 7. Macintosh: OS X 10.6 10.5; 700 MHz G4 processor (Intel Core Duo or 1 GHz G4 or faster remended). 512MB RAM (1GB or more remended). OpenGL en

Professional 3D Figure Design and AnimationProduct InformationIntegrate animated 3D characters and gigabytes of Poser content with the tools in your production pipeline. Poser Pro 2010 saves time and resources for professional artists and production teams with ready-to-go pre-rigged characters and a content library full of assets. Working inside Poser Pro generates dynamic images and video with its advanced lighting and powerful rendering technology.Poser Pro 2010 demystifies the art of character animation. Poser Pro is your passport to an experience that is second-to-none. Easy to master tools let you build 3D illustrations and animation on Poser's virtual sound stage. Animate 3D characters and integrate gigabytes of Poser content with the tools in your production pipeline. Poser Pro 2010 saves time and resources for professional artists and production teams with its content library improved lighting and powerful rendering technology. Start creating professional 3D art and animation in minutes.Key BenefitsContent ManagementFind what you need in Poser's content library with keyword search online search and metadata. Display previews browse categories and drag and drop to scenes.Professional AnimationCombine multiple layers of action into one fluid lifelike animation. Animate by keyframing pose to pose or import motion capture data. Automate walk and run cycles with natural gait and style with the WalkDesigner.Realistic 3D DetailCreate photo real images with full ranges of intensity and color with High Dynamic Range Image (HDRI) support. Add high resolution 3D detail to any mesh through the use of normal mapping.Hosting with PoserFusionUse Poser Pro's pre-rigged characters inside applications such as Autodesk's 3ds Max and Maya Maxon's CINEMA 4D and NewTek’s LightWave with the included plug-ins. Import and export with COLLADA data exchange.Improved Rendering Leverage your network to render massive scenes and ani

ZBrush is a digital sculpting and painting program that has revolutionized the 3D industry with its powerful features and intuitive workflows. Built within an elegant interface, ZBrush offers the world's most advanced tools for today's digital artists. With an arsenal of features that have been developed with usability in mind, ZBrush creates a user experience that feels incredibly natural while simultaneously inspiring the artist within. With the ability to sculpt up to a billion polygons, ZBrush allows you to create limited only by your imagination. Designed around a principle of circularity, the menus in ZBrush work together in a non-linear and mode-free method. This facilitates the interaction of 3D models, 2D images and 2.5D Pixols in new and unique ways. ZBrush gives you all of the tools needed to quickly sketch out a 2D or 3D concept and then take that idea all the way to completion. You can create realistic renders directly in ZBrush with lighting and atmospheric effects. With the many powerful export options, you can easily prepare your model for 3D printing or use within any other digital application. Because ZBrush users are enabled by its powerful software processing, you can sculpt and paint with millions of polygons with out having to worry about purchasing expensive graphics cards. It is for this reason why ZBrush is used by everyone from art enthusiast to major film and games studios. DynaMesh, the new base mesh generator, will allow you to realize your concepts via a workflow that ignores the traditional geometry barrier. To gain an unparalleled accuracy with your brush, the new Lazy Curve Mode allows precise strokes to your mesh whether in symmetry mode or not. The capability to apply an environment HDRI (High Dynamic Range Image) to the new LightCap system will give your finished images a remarkable level of believability.

Poser 9 provides the world s easiest way to create captivating art and animation with 3D characters. Simple-to-learn tools and included characters let artists focus on making art. Poser es with over 3GB of ready-to-pose humans and animals textures props and 3D scene elements. In the Face Room customize Poser characters from facial photographs; add dynamic hair and clothing; dress the Poser virtual stage with props lights and cameras to build 3D scenes. Animate and render scenes into photorealistic images and video for web print and film projects. Graphic artists illustrators and animators can all get creative with Poser 9.Features: Includes 3GB of ready-to-use 3D figures props and scene elements; no need to model anything from scratch. Simple 3D character animation tools and controls make posing easy. Includes full video tutorials to help you learn Poser fast. Render 3D scenes into stunning art and animation for web print or video. NEW! Vertex Weight Map Rigging System for better bending figures. NEW! Subsurface Scattering lets you render translucent skin for ultra-realism. NEW! OpenGL real-time preview with soft shadows makes it easier to preview your scenes. NEW! Improved depth of field and motion blur give your renderings more depth and movement. NEW! Light Casting Objects transforms any prop into a light source. NEW! Workflow improvements make it even easier to pose and animate. NEW! Mac OS X 10.7 support.System Requirements:Windows Windows XP Vista or 7 1.3 GHz Pentium 4 or newer Athlon 64 or newer (1.65 GHz or faster remended). 1 GB system RAM (2 GB or more remended). OpenGL enabled graphics card or chipset remended (recent NVIDIA GeForce and ATI Radeon required for advanced real-time preview features). 24-bit color display. 1024 x 768 minimum resolution. 3 GB free hard disk space (5 GB remended). DVD-ROM drive (physical product only). Inter connection required for Content Paradis

Poser Pro 2012 provides the fastest way for professional artists to create content and render 3D character images and animations from Poser scenes. COLLADA support enables Poser content integration with game engines and other 2D/3D tools. Fully 64-bit native and optimized for multi-core systems Poser Pro 2012 saves time by efficiently using system memory and processing resources. Poser Pro 2012 creates rendered images and animation with 3D characters or integrates ready-to-use 3D characters in any project.Features: Includes 3GB of ready-to-use 3D figures props and scene elements; no need to model anything from scratch. Powerful 3D character animation tools and controls make posing easy. Includes full video tutorials to help you master Poser fast. Render 3D scenes into gorgeous art and animation for web print or video. Integrate 3D characters into any project. Full 64-bit support on both Mac and Windows. PoserFusion plugins for Max Maya CINEMA 4D and LightWave. Gamma Correct preview and textures. HDRI support. Full COLLADA support. NEW! Vertex Weight Map Rigging System for better bending figures. NEW! Vertex Weight Map Creation tool suite makes it easy to rig new figures or clothing. NEW! Vertex Weight Map Auto Transfer instantly moves Weight Maps from one figure to another. NEW! Subsurface Scattering lets you render translucent skin for ultra-realism. NEW! OpenGL real-time preview with soft shadows makes it easier to preview your scenes. NEW! Improved depth of field and motion blur give your renderings more depth and movement. NEW! Light Casting Objects transforms any prop into a light source. NEW! Workflow improvements make it even easier to pose and animate. NEW! Mac OS X 10.7 support.System Requirements:Windows Windows XP Vista or 7 (64-bit OS required for 64-bit installation). 1.3 GHz Pentium 4 or newer Athlon 64 or newer (1.65 GHz multicore or faster remended). 1 GB system RAM (2 G

Poser 7, the Premiere 3D Figure Design and Animation Software Brings Life to Any Digital Project with 3D Imagery and Animation. Poser is the standard for depicting the human form in 3D. Poser is used for figure design and animation by hobbyists professional graphic artists. Using Poser, digital artists can easily create traditional art, comics, education and training materials, film and television productions, game development projects, illustration and print media, product package design and Web and online media. Anything from Sci-Fi art to storyboards, illustrations to fantasy movies, artists can master the human form and 3D characters to bring "life" to art.

Loaded With Content
Poser has always been jam packed with valuable, ready to use 3D content, and Poser 7 is loaded to the brim! Leading the way are Simon and Sydney, the new male and female figures. Sydney and Simon are complete with animated poses, still poses, full body morphs, facial expressions and morphs, hair, clothing, light sets, and more.

Jam-Packed With Content

Poser 7 also features:

• Exclusive 3rd party content from RuntimeDNA, Meshbox Designs, Netherworks, Vanishing Point and more;
• New wildlife including an eagle, wolf and others
• Extensive updates to the Poser Child figures with new morphs, textures and rigging
• New Motion Capture Data, Light Sets, Poses and Materials
• G2 Male, Female figures
• Forest and Plants by RuntimeDNA
• RoboShark by VanishingPoint

Lip Syncing Functionality

New Lip Syncing Features
Add incredible realism to your animations with new lip syncing functionality in Poser 7! Talking is one of the most challenging tasks in character animation, and using the new Talk Designer in Poser 7, even beginning animators can easily make figures talk with facial movements that match real human behavior! With Talk Designer, you have the power to control the type and level of emotion, enunciation, and head and eye movement including the figure's blink rate. Import a sound file and Poser 7 will automatically animate your figure's lip, eye and head movements to match!

Whether you are a seasoned professional or are just learning how to animate, now you can create movies or flash animations with characters that speak to add a whole new dimension of realism to your art. Talk Designer will work with many e frontier figures, including Sydney and Simon, the new Poser 7 figures, as well as James, Jessi, and the Generation 2 Koji and Kelvin figures. Third party content creators will be able to provide configuration files that make any viseme-equipped* figures Talk Designer compatible!

* Visemes are the visual representations of phonemes.

Multiple Undo and Redo

The Power of Multiple Undos
Give your creativity and productivity a boost with Multiple Undo and Redo in Poser 7 ! Freely explore poses, morph target changes, and body transformations without worrying about making mistakes or having to save multiple versions of your project at every new turn. In Poser 7, you can return to earlier poses and designs, and can step back and forth through up to 100 recent changes within your scene! Even steps you couldn't previously back out are now undoable. Multiple Undo and Redo is an incredible timesaver that can be applied on a wide range of your document changes, including all actions from the Poser library, applying poses, or deleting figures and props from your scenes.

Faster Rendering and HDRI Support
Render up to four times faster with Multi-threaded Rendering on machines with multiple CPUs. FireFly takes advantage of the processing power of the multi-core and multi-processor systems available on the market by rendering on up to four threads simultaneously. This optimization results in much shorter render times for most scenes.

Render more complex scenes than ever with new Tiled Texture Loading. Texture memory needs at render time are reduced to less than 10% (compared to previous versions for texture-heavy scenes)! Hard disk caching results in greatly reduced memory requirements. FireFly's tiled texture loading system also takes advantage of a new Texture Filtering approach, which uses a fraction of the memory of its predecessor. Create even more realistic images with HDRI! Poser now supports High Dynamic Range Images (HDRI) for Image Based Lighting and textures, giving you rendered lighting quality comparable to analog photo film!

Poser 7 Delivers More Render Performance

• Render in a Separate Process: FireFly now has the option to run in a separate process from the application, which can yield performance advantages when rendering highly complex scenes. FireFly also lets your system manage memory more efficiently and provides better system stability due to the separation of rendering tasks.
• Speed up Ambient Occlusion calculations with virtually no compromise on quality using the new Irradiance Caching feature. You can configure Irradiance Caching for draft (optimized for speed) versus final (optimized for quality) renders.
• Save more rendering time with Occlusion Culling, which enables FireFly to improve render performance by ignoring invisible scene elements at render time.
• Benefit from faster Raytracing with FireFly's new kd-tree Ray Accelerator, which improves raytracing performance in densely populated scenes.
• Take advantage of Poser 7's improved Depth of Field calculation to generate superior results in less time.

Animation Layers

Non-Linear Animation and Animation Layers
Create superior movies using Poser 7's new Non-Linear Animation! Now you can use Animation Layers to separate the various parts of an animation into independent pieces that can be individually moved, edited, hidden, or even phased gradually in and out! At playback Poser seamlessly compiles all the separate layers into a single, cohesive animation! Animation layers are supported by a variety of Poser's animation tools, such as the Walk Designer and Talk Designer, as well as the content Library, making it simple to organize and even reuse various portions of your animations.

Make your characters walk and talk, and even chew gum at the same time while keeping every strand of animation flexible! Using layers to combine animations makes it all easy and intuitive - since you are blending different layers of animation, you can combine different actions. Click and drag layers horizontally to have your animation building blocks start earlier or later in time. To help you organize your animations, Include in Playback allows you to hide or include layers when viewing the entire animation. Your creativity is the only limit to what you can create with layered, non-linear animation!

Poser 7 Delivers More Animation Strength

• Manipulate the visibility of individual objects within your scene, making them appear or disappear gradually or in an instant, all by simply adjusting a parameter dial with Poser 7's new Visibility Channel.
• Accomplish more with Poser 7's enhanced PoserPython scripting environment:
  • The new folder-driven Scripts menu on main menu bar makes it easy to expand, manage and use your Python script collection.
  • The scripting interface has been enhanced to give you more control.
  • The Python runtime is updated to Python 2.4
  • Poser 7 now supports the Tkinter GUI toolkit for Mac OS X 10.4 (not 10.3).

Powerful Morphing Tools

Morphing Tool
Add a whole new level of detail to your Poser 7 scenes using new brush-like morphing tools! The new Create tab on the Morphing Tool palette provides powerful interactive controls for creating your own custom morph targets. Easily "paint" dimples, moles or creases on your figures with simple strokes, just like you would with any brush tool. Use custom morph targets to create even more dynamic facial expressions; to change the appearance of bodies; to pull conforming clothing out past protruding body parts; to improve cloth simulation results; and for a wide variety of other uses as well.

Using the new morphing tools, selected areas or single points of the mesh can be pushed or pulled, smoothed or restored. Start by selecting the size of the area that you want to modify using the Radius control - small for detail work and large for broader changes. Choose from five brush styles that vary in falloff (how the change blends toward the edge of the selected area), from a very soft brush that blends gradually toward the edge to a crisp brush that affects the entire area the same way.

You can also define the magnitude of your changes, whether they accumulate or cap at a certain size, and if they act on a specific point or stroke like a brush tool. Make your changes either in surface mode, which will modify the mesh along the direction of surface normals, or in screen mode, which will allow deformations in any direction you wish.

When you are done, save your morphed Poser 7 figures into the library for later use. You don't have to be an expert to take your scenes to a whole new level, using Poser's intuitive morph target creation tools!

Universal Poses

Universal Poses
Now you can apply any pose to any biped figure within Poser, regardless of that figure's joints or rigging, and see consistent, high quality results! To save time, you can even take legacy poses from earlier versions of Poser and resave them to the Poser 7 Library, which will automatically convert them to Universal Poses!

Poser 7 Delivers More Control
Flexibly increase or reduce the value of any parameter in your scene with Dependent Parameters. Using Dependent Parameters in your files allows you to modify multiple morph targets, deformers or any other parameter using a single, master parameter dial. Now with Poser 7, you have much greater control in defining the ways that your parameters interact as your figure is adjusted.

Organize your content better using Content Collections. Poser 7's new Content Collections allow you to easily organize your Poser content from any Runtime Library or category into a single collection, giving you instant access to your favorite content without having to change Library categories.

The new Runtime Selection pop-up menu allows you to easily switch between different Runtime Libraries, without having to navigate through the Library folder hierarchy. Poser's Library palette now also displays your current Runtime Library name so you always know where you are.

Replacing light sets is a mouse click away. Now you can add or replace a light set within your scene with a single click.

Z-Buffer Actor Selection allows you to select obscured body parts without even having to move your mouse. This is particularly helpful when posing hands, in other instances where body parts are grouped closely together, or when two figures are within proximity.

Poser 7 Delivers More

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• Enjoy much more realistic scene previews. Improved preview texture resolution leverages the power of your graphics hardware to give you up to 4096x4096 pixel texture previews that show amazing detail - that's up to 16 times more detailed than Poser 6!
• Focus on creativity, not repetition, with new workflow improvements:
  • Easily populate your scene with identical, yet independent figures. Now you can duplicate selected objects (with animation) and save time without the tedious process of having to individually configure each object in your scene.
  • Save animated poses with walk paths or full body morphs directly into your library. In Poser 7, you can now store figure transformation and/or full body morph target settings in a pose
• If you are new to Poser, new training resources provided in Poser 7 will get you started quickly. In addition to the Poser 7 Reference and Tutorial Manuals, on-screen step-by-step interactive tutorials will guide you through many Poser basics. The new Quick Start dialog gives you access to a number of different projects that can be viewed through the Project Guide palette. Learning at your own pace, you will be led through each step in your project, and have access to "watch-me" videos with detailed visual explanations of individual tasks.
• More workflow improvements are included in Poser 7 too:
  • Design or animate from any combination of angles with custom cameras. Now you can create new cameras in addition to the default set, choose whether they are revolving or dolly style, and view your scene any way you choose.
  • Work on the details in your design with precision and ease. Poser's orthographic cameras (top, front, right, etc.) are now easier to use and more exact.
  • Save time, directly create and add all light types to your scene with just two mouse clicks
• Get a real sense of what your final result will look like as you work, without having to render your scene! Poser 7's Procedural Shader Preview can display the results of most procedural shader effects in the Preview window. Enable Hardware Shading on systems with high-performance graphics hardware.
• Import your textures and images in modern formats. Poser 7 now supports HDR and EXR formats for import of high dynamic range bitmap images, as well as many other modern formats.
• Choose how you want to locate an object's associated files. Poser 7's Configurable File Search includes three levels of depth, Deep (for most extensive), Shallow or None, to give you the results you want -- fast or comprehensive.

Poser is the standard for depicting the human form in 3D. Poser is used for figure design and animation by hobbyists and professional graphic artists.Using Poser digital artists can easily create traditional art comics education and training materials film and television productions game development projects illustration and print media product package design and web and online media.Anything from Sci-Fi art to storyboards illustrations to fantasy movies artists can master the human form and 3D characters to bring life to art.Create realistic characters in 3DAnimate people and animalsLip sync 3D characters to talkShoot scenes for film pre-visualizationPopulate 3D architectural scenesDevelop characters for gamesBuild 3D sculpturesGenerate Flash animationsRecreate forensic scenesDesign fashion clothingCreate comic and manga charactersProduce sports training materialsMake medical/scientific illustrationsOutput human art in many stylesExport to other 3D programsEasily access additional contentSystem Requirements:Win: Windows 2000/XP | 500MHz Pentium or compatible | 256MB system RAM | 24-bit color display 1024 x 768 resolution 500MB free hard disk space | Open GL enabled hardware recommended | Internet connection required for Content Paradise Mac: Mac OS X 10.2 or later | 500MHz G3 processor | 256 MB system RAM | 24-bit color display 1024 x 768 resolution 500MB free hard disk space | Open GL enabled hardware recommended | Internet connection required for Content Paradise Format: WIN 2000XP/MAC 10.4 OR LATERUB Genre: PRODUCTIVITY UPC: 814956026218 Manufacturer No: PSR-C70-DEM-R

Number of Videos: 111 Lessons - 13 Hours Duration
Ships on: DVD-ROM
User Level: Beginners
Works On: Windows 7,Vista,XP- Mac OS X

Brian Benton authors this comprehensive AutoCAD 2012 tutorial video. This latest offering from Autodesk is chock full of new features and a modified interface. Brian Benton will take you through this industry standard CAD program, and teach you to use it effectively, whether you are a beginner, or long-time user of AutoCAD. Starting with a tour interface, this video tutorial will ease you into AutoCAD 2012. You will review the installation procedure, explore the interface, and discover whats new in this latest version. From there, you jump into actually using AutoCAD to produce drawings. You will learn all the different shape tools - lines, circles, rectangles, etc. You will learn about AutoCADs coordinate system, how to edit and delete objects, and how to take advantage of layers. You will use blocks, and discover dimensioning, and how to apply it to your projects. Finally you will explore how to plot and publish your project. With interactive projects at the end of each chapter, you will quickly learn to apply what you have been taught. By the completion of this video training course, you will be fully capable of using AutoCAD 2012 to produce and publish CAD drawings for your own projects. Working files are included to allow you to follow along and learn AutoCAD at your pace.

Poser 8 is the world's most complete solution for creating art and animation with 3D characters. With Poser, it's easy to make 3D art. Poser includes over 2.5 gigabytes of ready-to-pose human and animal figures, textures, props and 3D scene elements. Generate new characters from your facial photographs. Add hair and clothing. Dress Poser's virtual stage with props, lights and cameras to build 3D scenes. Animate and render your scene into photorealistic images and video for web, print, and film projects. Export 3D figures to add characters to other 3D applications. Artists, hobbyists, illustrators and animators--get creative with Poser!

Poser 8's easy to use interface makes it easy to create 3D character images and animation. Click to enlarge.

Easily Create 3D Character Art and Animation

Poser 8 is better than ever
Along with 8 brand new 3D humans, Poser 8 includes an improved user interface to maximize your workspace while providing better workflow, a new search-enabled library so you can find, organize and use your content easier, a dependant parameter tool that lets you teach objects in the scene to interact with each other, cross body morph brushes to smoothly sculpt a figure across every body part, new photorealistic rendering features that more accurately reproduce light and shadows, and improved character rigging for even better character bending. To save time, Poser 8 has been performance optimized so you can pose your characters and render them faster on today's multiple processor systems.

Poser 8 includes:

All Poser's included figures and 3D content are fully textured using our powerful node-based shader system. Click to enlarge.

Turn your 3D scene into an artistic sketch using Poser 8's sketch designer. Click to enlarge.

Automatically generate animated figures that can walk or run through your 3D scene. Click to enlarge.

Poser 8's powerful cloth engine lets you transform any object or clothing prop into dynamic cloth that stretches, drapes and flows naturally, even over an animated figure. Click to enlarge.

With Poser you can produce photorealistic images and animations, or render in styles including cartoon tones, sketch renderings, silhouettes, wireframes and even Flash. Click to enlarge.

Import a spoken word sound file, and with the included Talk Designer, your Poser 8 figures will speak in sync with the sound. Click to enlarge.

8 new figures
The new set of eight 3D humans included with Poser 8 are the most advanced figures ever included with the application, and are a showcase for new Poser 8 features. Built from scratch, the figures are performance optimized for the polygon count and have custom photorealistic textures. Rigged using Poser 8's new multiple sphere and capsule fall off zone technology, problematic joints such as hips and shoulders now bend with more realism than any figure on the market. By using the new Dependent Parameter tool to link deformers to specific joint positions, areas such as knees, elbows, chest and collar joints have smoother folds, less stretching and more realism. The new Poser 8 figures are offered in four pairs of male/female couples with European features, African features, Asian features and Hispanic features. The Poser 8 new figures are fully compliant with the Face Room, the Walk Designer and Talk Designer, and via the use of Wardrobe Wizard, much of the included legacy clothing content has been converted to work directly on the figures.

~1.5GB of new Poser 8 Content
In addition to the new set of figures, Poser 8 includes an array of new content supplied by third party partners as well content created by the Smith Micro team of 3D artists. A new art-school inspired default manikin opens each new scene, and will serve as a remarkable reference figure for artists. Fully articulated human skeletons that match the male and female figures body topology are included. Various new poses, animations, light sets, props, and accessories to help new users get started are included in the Poser 8 content installer. Poser 8 also includes an additional 1.5GB of legacy Poser 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 content.

New User Interface
Poser 8 offers a new evolved user interface, preserving the elements that Poser users are accustomed to, while presenting them in a more concise layout that takes better advantage of various screen resolutions. The new layout produces a cleaner work environment so artists can focus on the project. All controls are presented in floating palettes that can be docked for consistency, session to session, or floated to free up space.

Dependent Parameters
Poser 8 unlocks an advanced user secret with the new Dependent Parameter palette. Poser 8 lets the artist create new Master Parameters or turn any existing Parameter into a Master Parameter that can drive any other editable parameters in the scene. Complex interactions can be created such as Full Body Morphs, Partial Body Morphs, Advanced Body Controls, Joint Controlled Morph Targets, Joint Controlled Deformers and Parameter Controlled Scene Assets.

Indirect Lighting
By bouncing light and color from object to adjacent object in a scene, Poser 8's Global Illumination system can render images that appear so realistic they can fool the untrained eye into thinking the images are photos rather than 3D renderings.

OpenGL Preview Improvements
Preview now displays up to 8 lights and their accumulated values, sorted by intensity. The light properties controller allows you to select each light you wish to illuminate in the scene preview.

Content Management System / Library
The new library presents content by category, but with a tighter list view with expanding previews and additional data for each content item. Content items can be loaded into the scene using the traditional Poser UI controls or can now be dragged directly from the Library into the scene. The Poser 8 Library also supports keyword search. Type in a keyword to find exactly what you looking for. Add any selected items to your favorites.

Cross Body Part Morph Creation
With Poser 8 comes a significant improvement to the current Morphing Tool. Now you can dial in a Morph Brush and paint morphs across body parts. Easily create effects such as muscle bulges, scales, bumps, horns, veins or wounds; it's only limited by your imagination.

Improved Rigging System
Poser 8 has improved upon the existing joint Falloff Zone rigging system by adding any number of new zones to a joint, while adding a new capsule shape to the existing sphere, and allowing the rigger to either multiply or add the Falloff Zone values. This system will permit figure creators to rig challenging areas such as hips and shoulders with more precision, yielding better bending figures.

Tone Mapping and Exposure
Tone Mapping helps control very bright and dark areas in an image to produce better, less blown out final renderings with deeper contrast. The feature is very useful, helping to bring the brightest areas back into a reproducible range. Two modes of Tone Mapping are available for differing effects: Exponential Tone Mapping and HSV Tone Mapping. Exposure values are editable when either Exponential or HSV Tone Mapping is selected.

Physically Correct Light Falloff
For Spot and Point lights, Poser 8 lets users attenuate (control) falloff to more closely reproduce real-world light behaviors. Constant falloff replicates the previous Poser behavior, and Inverse Linear and Inverse Square add two new methods for getting light to appear more realistic.

Normal Mapping
Normal Mapping is a resource-efficient technique to add the appearance of complexity and surface detail to 3D objects. It can transform object surfaces, making them appear more intricate than they actually are, without the added overhead of polygonal detail. This saves designers valuable time and offers increased creative flexibility by allowing faster and more light-weight computation of rendered results.

Performance Optimizations

• Figure/Actor pre-lighting and picking
• Bending on multi-core/multi-processor hardware
• Improved multi-processor support for better scalability when rendering
• Cloth simulation multithreaded/optimized
• Increased performance for opening/handling complex scenes

Poser 8 Uses:

• Professional 3D graphics professionals
• 3D Hobby/Enthusiast Market
• Comic book / graphic novel creators
• General Purpose 3D Users
• Upgrade Poser Users
• Art Students
• Traditional Artists/Sculptors

Poser provides a number of professional users with a fast, easy to access resource for 3D humans, animals, and other scene assets. Professional users include: Architectural illustrators, industrial designers, medical illustrators, graphic designers, editorial illustrators, book illustrators, informational graphics, advertising illustration, web illustration, interactive content, story boarding, lighting and theatrical set designers, film/video production

3D hobbyists and enthusiasts who dabble in 3D for personal satisfaction, experiment with Poser to gain 3D experience, and may use Poser to expand into new careers, or create a graphic novel, sci-fi art, fantasy art, or develop a screen play.

Comic book creators and graphic novelists use Poser render images and animations to create their own titles. Single images, multiple page comics and graphic novels delivered via print and digital media are a great use of Poser.

If you work with other 3D applications such as Max, Maya, Cinema 4D, Modo, Lightwave, Truespace, Bruce, or Vue; Poser is a perfect way to include 3D character content you're your projects.

Art students looking to gain practical 3D animation experience hone their skills working with Poser characters as part of course work, in art school classes or for extra-curricular experience.

The Easiest Way to Design with 3D Figures.Poser 8 is the world's most plete solution for creating art and animation with 3D characters. With Poser it's easy to make 3D art. Get started right away with Gigabytes of ready-to-pose human and animal figures textures props and 3D scene elements. Generate new characters from your facial photographs. Add hair and clothing. Dress Poser's virtual stage with props lights and cameras to build 3D scenes. Animate and render your scene into photorealistic images and video for web print and film projects. Export 3D figures to add characters to other 3D applications. Get creative with Poser 8 perfect for artists hobbyists illustrators and animators! New Features: Poser 8 bines 11 years of development with new high-resolution content and posing enhancements more powerful rendering breakthroughs in realism and animation significant workflow improvements and much more.Features: NEW! User interface with improved workflow. NEW! Includes 8 brand new ready-to-pose fully textured human figures. NEW! Wardrobe wizard fits existing clothing items onto new figures. NEW! Cross Body Part Morph Tool. NEW! Improved rigging system for better bending of new figures. NEW! Indirect lighting for global illumination effects. Easy-to-use 3D character animation controls. Over 2.5GB of ready-to-use content no need to model 3D characters from scratch. Render photorealistic or stylized art and  animations for print web or video. Create 3D figures to use in other applications. Seemlessly manage scene assets and content. Fit existing clothing assets to new figures. Create full body morphs.Get Started Fast Build scenes with Poser s ready-to-go content. Choose from male female child or animal figures props hair clothing and more. Custom Characters Create unique individuals by photo mapping or changing the features age and ethnicity of Poser s characters. Rendering Styles Poser s Firefly render engine is powerful a

The versatile CAD system anyone can use!Product InformationDesign CAD 3D Max Version 17 combines powerful 3D modeling with easy-to-use 2Ddrafting. Your creativity and knowledge are the only limits!  From the NASAspace station to a simple doghouse DesignCAD 3D Max is the versatile CAD systemthat is made easy for anyone to use.  DesignCAD 3D Max includes the mostadvanced CAD features such as solid modeling realistic texture mapping andcustom 3D animation. With the extensive online help that's available you'll beup and running in no time.    DesignCAD 3D Max is the ultimate beginner tool for creating precise professional-quality drafting modeling and animation. 2D drafting and 3D modeling have never been easier. Create professional-quality drafting modeling and animation with ease and speed. With no previous CAD experience needed. Perfect for: Furniture Decks Floorplans and architectural drawings Engineering Layouts Electronic schematics Plats maps and elevations Toys hobbies and 3D modelsNew FeaturesEnhanced AutoCAD® Compatibility DesignCAD 3D Max v17 has been improved to now include compatibility with AutoCAD layouts and PaperSpace. In addition there is expanded support of AutoCAD Layers LineStyles Views Viewports and Blocks in both DXF and DWG file formats.Improved Rendering and LightingA new intuitive Light Source menu allows you to easily define the lighting scheme of your drawing. Choose from multiple types of light sources and add up to 8 different lights to your drawing. Your renderings have never looked more stunning! Improved OpenGL lighting Choose light source type: Spot Point & Directional Intensity: Ambient Diffuse & Specular Direction: Horizontal and Vertical AngleRaster-to-Vector Conversion ToolThis integrated converter can scan in your paper drawings and convert them to editable CAD files saving you hours in design time.More New & Improved Feature

High resolution and realistic, fully detailed and textured HTC Incredible Smartphone For use in any proyect. Originally modelled in 3ds max 9. Final images rendered with Vray. The 3ds max rar file contains also vray, and mentalray materials scenes. File formats: - 3ds Max 9, 2009 and 2011, vray and mentalray materials scenes! - C4D Cinema 4D R11 - LWS LightWave 10 - OBJ Multi Format - 3DS Multi Format - DXF Acad 2007 Format - FBX Autodesk Format Click on my user name to see complete gallery models. The Periphery - 3D Design

Poser provides the easiest way to design with the human form in 3D. Using the rich collection of content included and powerful rendering to produce any style art, creative professionals, graphic artists and hobbyists can create stunning art, fine illustration and breathtaking animation for applications that integrate the diversity and spirit of human imagery.

New landscape design software for creating professional plans and presentations. Design houses, decks, fencing, yards, gardens, swimming pools, water features, and much more with easy-to-use tools. Give your plans a hand-drawn look using a wide variety of plant symbols and color washes. Freely switch between 2D and 3D views while designing your landscape. Advanced rendering features include soft shadows, accurate lighting, flowing water, and more. Design irrigation systems, planting details, and CAD drawings with accurate size and scale. An extensive library of symbols is included, and you can create your own using the wizard. Import a digital photograph of your client's house and design the landscape. A powerful picture editor is included so you can touch-up photos, edit imported pictures, and even create custom plant varieties. Includes over 16,000 objects, including 6700 ultra-high resolution plants, 3000 accessories, and more. No CAD experience required.

A collection that provides design/animation and brings your photos to Life!.Product InformationBring out your creativity with the Poser 7 & Morpheus Photo Animation Suite.  Poser 7 provides the easiest way to design with the human form in 3D. Using the rich collection of content included and powerful rendering to produce any style art creative professionals graphic artists and hobbyists can create stunning art fine illustration and breathtaking animation for applications that integrate the diversity and spirit of human imagery.  Bring your photos to life with the  Morpheus Photo Animation Suite. You can create your very own photo effects from your home PC and amaze your friends and loved ones!Product Titles IncludedPoser 7Morpheus Photo Animation SuiteProduct OverviewPoser 7Harness the power of 3D figures with Poser 7.  Design pose and animate figures in 3D. Poser provides high-resolution 3D figure models an extensive library of 3D content and a powerful 3D toolset that makes it easy to create your own 3D characters. Render stunning Images with natural lighting and artistic effects for print or web or create realistic animations for Flash projects and movies!New Features:New Content - Poser 7 es with over 1GB of high resolution 3D content.Lip Syncing - Make figures talk with facial movements that match real human behavior.Multiple Undo - Step back and forth through up to 100 recent changes within your scene.Rendering and HDRI - Render up to four times faster with Multi-threaded Rendering.Animation Layers - Separate the various parts of animations and control the independent pieces.Morphing Tools - Create custom morphs on your figures just like you would with any brush tool.Product Features:Loaded With 3D ContentPoser includes high resolution male and female figures children animals cartoons robots and more - over 80 fully textured figure models in all.Hundreds of poses facial expressions full body morphs hair clothing light sets and prop

New landscape design software for creating professional plans and presentations. Design houses, decks, fencing, yards, gardens, swimming pools, water features, and much more with easy-to-use tools. Give your plans a hand-drawn look using a wide variety of plant symbols and color washes. Freely switch between 2D and 3D views while designing your landscape. Advanced rendering features include soft shadows, accurate lighting, flowing water, and more. Design irrigation systems, planting details, and CAD drawings with accurate size and scale. An extensive library of symbols is included, and you can create your own using the wizard. Import a digital photograph of your client's house and design the landscape. A powerful picture editor is included so you can touch-up photos, edit imported pictures, and even create custom plant varieties. Includes over 16,000 objects, including 6700 ultra-high resolution plants, 3000 accessories, and more. No CAD experience required.

Autodesk Mudbox 2010 digital sculpting and painting software gives artists the freedom to create 3D digital artwork as if they were working with clay and paint. Designed by professional artists in the film, game, and design industries, Mudbox combines a highly intuitive interface with a powerful toolset of stencils and brushes for creating ultra realistic models and environments.

Mudbox combines a highly intuitive interface with a powerful toolset of stencils and brushes for creating ultra realistic models and environments.

Whether you're a seasoned 3D professional, an artist who works with traditional media, an amateur enthusiast, or a 2D graphic designer or illustrator looking to add 3D to your workflow, Mudbox is what you need to add a whole new dimension to your creativity.

"Mudbox has always been a part of my workflow since I started to use it on King Kong. I really liked the real-time shading and rendering features that were added in the recent versions, and as a Maya user, I love Mudbox's working environment." -- Pascal Raimbault, 3D Modeler

Hit the road to freedom
Mudbox gives artists the ability to create without worrying about the technical details. Sculpt and paint as fast as you think. With its friendly user interface, Mudbox can be easily used by both traditional and digital artists.

Welcome to the age of digital sculpting and 3D painting
There was a day when design ideas were visualized through a physical model fabricated or sculpted from materials such as metal, paper, wood, or clay. There was a day when digital artists worked in 2D. That time is over. Meet Mudbox.

Brush based digital sculpting
With Mudbox you can digitally sculpt ultra realistic 3D models with incredible detail--down to the pores on a character's skin--with easy-to-use, high-quality sculpting tools, stamps, and stencils. Choose from an extensive list of brushes, or quickly tailor them to fit your project's particular needs.

If you are new to 3D, you can use one of the simple built-in primitive shapes, such as a sphere, as a starting point for creating organic forms. Artists already familiar with 3D software may want to begin their designs in a 3D application like Autodesk Maya, Autodesk 3ds Max, or Autodesk Softimage, and then bring them into Mudbox to refine the shape and add depth and texture. The Mudbox interface will be familiar to artists who already know these tools.

Texture painting
Rotate your model to apply paint precisely where you want, no matter how complex the surface. Quickly and easily paint multiple diffuse, specular, reflection, and bump textures across multiple high-resolution maps on your 3D models. 3D painting is integrated with the familiar stamps and stencils workflow.

Become productive in hours, rather than weeks, with the intuitive Mudbox user interface. Click to enlarge.

High-quality brushes, stencils, and curves enable you to more quickly "sculpt" your geometry into the 3D model you envision. Click to enlarge.

Store different detail passes, design directions, libraries of morph targets, and more on multiple layers. Click to enlarge.

Enjoy excellent interactive camera performance with even the densest meshes. Click to enlarge.

Extend and customize Mudbox using its C++ application programming interface (API). Click to enlarge.

Create ambient occlusion maps for extremely high-resolution models. Then, bake the soft shadows and details of a model out to an image you can reuse without expensive recalculations. Click to enlarge.

Maintain performance when displaying textured models by managing how you use the graphical processing unit (GPU) memory to display textures on models with multiple UV tiles. Click to enlarge.

More quickly create high-quality images for design reviews and more by rendering your scene directly from the viewport. Click to enlarge.

What you visualize is what they'll see
The real-time rendering effects in Mudbox enable you to see your work in progress from any angle. When you're done, use Mudbox to show it off to clients, co-workers, or friends.

"Mudbox is a joy to use and is always surprising me with new possibilities for creativity. This software gets an A in my book and is a must-have for the serious CG artist." -- Tom Cushwa

From 2D to 3D
It's never been easier to add a whole new dimension to your creativity. Adding Mudbox to your current 2D workflow frees you from the creative limitations associated with traditional photography, 2D software, hand illustration, and other traditional graphic design methods.

While the tools themselves will feel familiar to those who sculpt with clay, the Mudbox workflow offers the advantages of digital creative tools, such as Adobe Photoshop software, including the ability to organize your work using layers, mirror or flip them, and nondestructively edit your 3D models.

Let your inner child come out and play
When was the last time you played with Play-Doh? It's time to try it again (minus the funny smell)! Mudbox guarantees hours of guilt-free fun--you're on a computer, so you must be working, right? After all, Mudbox is a work tool used by major film, TV, and games studios to create 3D characters and environments.

Ideal for:

• 3D artists
• 2D artists
• Fine artists
• Web and multimedia professionals
• Traditional sculptors
• Students

Applications:

• Web and multimedia content
• Film
• Games
• Television products
• Design--automotive, consumer goods, industrial, architectural
• Advertising
• Product packaging
• Illustration (classic, medical, or scientific)

Features

What's Included

Documentation and Learning:

• Learning movies --Watch these movies to learn the essential skills to work in Mudbox.
• QuickStart tutorial--Learn the basics of sculpting and painting in this step-by-step lesson.
• Online documentation--The fully searchable online HTML-based help system includes user guides, tool references, and best practices.

Community:
The AREA, a community for Autodesk Media & Entertainment products. Access free tutorials, downloads or interact with fellow users in discussion forums and see the multitude of talent from around the globe. Directly connect with industry professionals through blogs--more at area.autodesk.com.

Detailed Features

IMPORTANT: Please read the System Requirements. As new hardware is added on an on-going basis, please also visit Autodesk's updated requirements.

User Interface
Become productive in hours, rather than weeks, with the intuitive Mudbox user interface.

• For traditional artists with no previous 3D experience, tools that closely mimic the behavior of their real-world counterparts are quickly understood and easily adopted.
• Work with tools such as brushes, stamps, and stencils to quickly sculpt and create lifelike textures.
• Use the Layer Editor to organize your work.
• Maximize your workspace by hiding UI elements and using standard hotkeys to manipulate the camera.

Cameras
Mudbox features innovative, accelerated camera manipulation, for excellent interactive performance with even the densest meshes.

• Use multiple real-time cameras within a scene, including true perspective and orthographic cameras.
• Bookmark your camera positions.
• Model using reference images: each camera has its own image plane.
• Use Smart Focus to position the camera based on the cursor position and brush size.
• Manipulate your camera with trackball-style controls.
• Use the same keyboard shortcuts for Mudbox cameras as those that are used for cameras in Autodesk Maya software.

Display
Work interactively in an environment in which high-res 3D models retain their subtlety, realism, and detail.

• Apply one or more image maps to any object, independent of the other objects in the scene.
• Use smooth shading mode to get a display more representative of the limit surface.
• Interactively view multiple texture channels (including bump and reflection) at the same time.
• Interactively view multiple maps and multiple materials in the scene.
• Work in real time with models that properly display advanced lighting (including HDRI-based lighting) and shadows.
• Incorporate advanced display options into your presentation, including ambient occlusion, depth of field, and tone mapping.

Sculpt Layers
Store different detail passes, design directions, libraries of morph targets, and more on multiple layers.

• Mirror or flip the detail stored in one or more layers.
• Edit nondestructively: Mudbox delivers paintable masks.
• Quickly duplicate, merge, flatten, and reorder layers.
• Precisely blend layers using interactive multiplier sliders and layer masks.
• Use layers to store libraries of morph targets.

Advanced Digital Sculpting
High-quality brushes, stencils, and curves let you quickly "sculpt" your geometry into the 3D model you envision.

3D Brushes

• Use intelligently designed default brushes or quickly tailor them for custom behavior and performance.
• Choose from a number of base brush types, including
  • Dry brush--enables you to create an effect similar to what can be achieved by painting only on the raised details of a model
  • Clone brush--enables you to quickly and easily copy existing paint on a model from one area to another, for your retouching needs
  • Sculpt brush--enables you to create complex forms with great control
  • Flatten brush--enables you to quickly create planes and wipe away detail
  • Wax brush--enables you to easily fill in area
• Accurately shape your brush tips with falloff curves and stamps. A sharp falloff curve will cut an accurate, sharp stroke into the geometry with no soft stroke profiles.

Workflow

• Sculpt both sides of topologically symmetrical models simultaneously--even when they are in an asymmetrical pose--with the powerful tangent space mirroring functionality.
• Use curves as guides for brush strokes.
• Use image stamps to quickly brush (in 3D) a detailed texture directly into your mesh.
• Quickly add high-quality detail through mesh displacement. Use 8-, 16-, or 32-bit images to displace your mesh; Mudbox even supports displacement using multiple maps at one time.

Texture Painting and Assignment
Quickly and easily paint multiple diffuse, specular, reflection, and bump textures across multiple high-resolution maps on your 3D models.

• Apply detail precisely where required, regardless of UV distortion or surface complexity. In the Mudbox 3D Paint mode, the brush position relative to the model is calculated in true world space; paint is projected tangent to the model. 3D painting is integrated with the familiar stamps and stencils workflow.
• Selectively paint reference images onto the model from a particular viewpoint. Using the new Projection brush, you can project paint onto the model from screen space.
• Paint hero characters with ease: Mudbox supports the painting of multiple maps on multiple meshes.
• Paint both sides of your model simultaneously with the familiar symmetry workflow.
• Paint and display a different texture for each UV square unit tile.
• Use the intuitive layer editor to easily manage multiple paint layers. You can select, blend, and organize several images for each texture channel.

Texture Baking
With its robust texture baking capabilities, Mudbox solves one of the most common bottlenecks in production pipelines: baking of normal and displacement maps.

• Bake high-quality normal and displacement maps between multiple arbitrary meshes. Detail can be baked into 8-, 16-, and 32-bit maps.
• Generate smooth, high-quality maps using extraction options designed to address issues related to poly faceting by extracting between the limit surfaces of the given meshes.
• Displace your meshes using multiple floating point maps.
• Bake normal maps that are compatible with Autodesk Maya and Autodesk 3ds Max software.

General Workflow
Mudbox performance is renowned, with tools organized in a familiar, intuitive manner.

• Work in real time even on 3D models that are fully subdivided into tens of millions of high-quality polygons.
• Manipulate the camera using conventional camera controls--to maximize your workspace and reduce "back and forth" workflows.
• Streamline your workflow through tools such as the Hover Pick functionality and hotkeys.
• Use asymmetrical mirroring to streamline the process of working on posed or asymmetrical models.
• Work on one mesh in the context of others: Mudbox supports multiple meshes within the scene.
• Use the built-in image browser--with full support for 8-, 16-, and 32-bit images--to view reference images and quickly assign them to stamps, stencils, or camera image planes.

Connectivity and Integration
Mudbox works well with Autodesk Maya and Autodesk 3ds Max, Autodesk Softimage, as well as with other 3D software applications, making it a natural choice for experienced artists.

Simpler interoperability with Maya, 3ds Max and Softimage
Mudbox has support for Autodesk FBX file transfer technology, allowing artists to import and export scene data containing more information than the usual OBJ file format. Important data can be retained, including painted texture maps, cameras and image planes. This results in higher fidelity transfers; saving artists time.

Supported Formats
Scene Import	OBJ, FBX
Scene Export	OBJ, FBX
Texture Import	BMP, EXR, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIF
Bitmap Output	BMP, EXR, JPEG, PNG, TIF. Some formats applicable to certain renderers only.

PSD File Support
Round-tripping of Mudbox paint layers (converting to and from Adobe Photoshop) is now possible through added support for PSD import and export.

Software Developer Kit (SDK)
The addition to Mudbox of a software developer kit (SDK) opens up the software as never before, giving developers the ability to customize Mudbox and integrate it with their production pipeline. This is the launch of the Mudbox SDK and it is anticipated to be expanded with future releases.

Autodesk® Mudbox™ digital sculpting and texture painting software gives modelers and texture artists the freedom to create 3D digital artwork as if they are working with clay and paint. Designed by professional artists in the game, film, television, and design industries, Mudbox combines a highly intuitive user interface with a powerful creative toolset of stencils and brushes to help create ultra-realistic 3D characters, engaging environments, stylized props, and more. Available for the Macintosh® computer and Microsoft® Windows® operating systems.

Number of Videos: 87 Lessons - 8 Hours Duration
Ships on: DVD-ROM
User Level: Beginner - Advanced
Works On: Windows 7,Vista,XP- Mac OS X

In this computer based video training course, Rhino expert Brian DiNola teaches you advanced techniques that you can apply to the current version of this powerful 3D modeling software, as well as in future and past versions of Rhino. The techniques taught in this training video assume that you have a basic understanding of using the 3D modeling software Rhino. Brian covers advanced techniques such as Hole Arrays, Wirecutting, using Mesh techniques, as well as extensive instruction on advanced scripting methods, using Command Scripting, RhinoScript and VBScripting. As well as showing you the techniques, Brian brings it all together with project-based sections, applying the techniques he is teaching in real-world examples. By the completion of this video training course, you will have an advanced understanding of how to use Rhino to accomplish your 3D modeling needs. Included with this course are extensive project files that allow you to work alongside the author, with the files that he is working with.

With each new release of Photoshop, Adobe manages both to satisfy the expectations of existing users and to pull a few magic features out of its hat. Version 6 is no exception. Powerful vector editing and masking, improved layer controls, layer styles, incredible typographic control, new Web publishing tools, and a cleaner, more accessible interface are already making version 5.5, itself a groundbreaker, look like ancient history.

Photoshop's new vector features provide even more control when compositing photographic images. You can use the vector drawing tools simply to create polygons and custom shapes, but they can also act as layer clipping paths--vector masks that hide or reveal image areas in underlying layers.

Editable layer effects such as drop shadow and glow were introduced in version 5.5; in version 6, they have been renamed layer styles. New options include satin, stroke and color, gradient, and pattern overlay. The layer styles dialogue box provides much more control--bevel and emboss has five style options, as well as adjusters for technique, depth, direction, size, soften, angle, attitude, gloss, contour, highlight mode, opacity--and that's not all of them. As the name suggests, layer styles can easily be saved and applied to other layers.

You can enter and edit text directly onto the layer and set style attributes from the new tool options bar. Photoshop 6 seems to have benefited from some of InDesign's superb typographic tools, with character and paragraph palettes providing precise control. Web imaging tools have been revamped, with layer-based slicing now available from within Photoshop itself, and a major overhaul of ImageReady introducing weighted optimization, rollover styles, and tweened animation.

If you want the best image editing software that money can buy, look no further. --Ken McMahon

Adobe Photoshop 6.0 software introduces the next generation of image editing with powerful new features that offer something for every user. Delivering a broad and productive tool set, Photoshop helps you explore your creativity, work at peak efficency, and achieve the highest quality results across all media. Combine vector drawing tools and new layer design features that greatly enhance your creative options, output razor-sharp text and shapes from Photoshop, and take advantage of an expanded web tool kit that includes the new ImageReady 3.0 software for advanced web processing. Use text warping and image distortion tools to manipulate and experiment. Photoshop's time-saving features help you break new ground and still beat your deadlines. Master the power of Photoshop faster with user-interface enhancements that help you to get to work quickly and make it easy to take full advantage of the comprehensive tool set.

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Whether you're a 3-D novice or an experienced digital artist, Poser 5 makes it extraordinarily easy to create complete 3-D character stills and animations. Yet while this new edition definitely has advantages over previous versions, it is not without its glitches.

Pay attention to the system requirements on install. This program needs room and power. With more than the recommended 256 MB of RAM, rendering seems a bit sluggish in spite of the new FireFly micropolygon-based rendering engine. Though considering all Poser 5 does, immediate rendering of complex 3-D objects might be asking a bit much.

Working in Poser 5 is remarkably simple considering the capabilities of the software. The workspace is clean and easily customizable, with a majority of the tools accessible from floating palettes and windows. A collapsible library palette gives you fast access to all available content such as figures, poses, faces, and expressions. Plus, there is an entire CD of additional content including sound files, props, textures, templates, samples, and demos.

The interface is broken down into different rooms: Pose, Material, Face, Hair, Cloth, Setup, and Content. The new Face Room lets you map any face onto a 3-D head using just front and side photos of someone's face. Use the Hair Room to grow actual 3-D hair for figures in just a few steps. Go to the Cloth Room and convert objects into fully dynamic cloth with complete control of behavior. A full, revised reference manual is included.

So many things are under your control, it's hard not to want to tweak every little detail. However, on more than one occasion making an adjustment caused the software to lock up and quit. At other times, it would complete the changes, but the document window would be blank, making it necessary to close and reopen the program to continue work.

Instability issues aside, Poser 5 is loaded with fun tools, content, and utilities, making an upgrade worthwhile for serious users. Ease of use makes it a good choice for beginners and hobbyists as well. --Joshua Goldman

Poser 5 is an ideal 3-D character design and animation tool for artists and animators. Create 3-D figures using a diverse collection of ready-to-use 3-D human and animal models. Poser's innovative interface makes figure design, posing, and animating fast and easy. Map facial photos, grow and style dynamic hair, and create dynamic cloth to add extraordinary realism to your figure.

Quickly output movies and images from your posed figures for content in Web, print, and video projects. Add life to your 3-D worlds using exported, posed figures. For those new to 3-D, digital artists, and hobbyists alike, Poser 5 is easy to learn and quickly generates fast and dynamic results.

Poser 5 delivers a stunning host of new tools including Facial Photo-mapping, Dynamic Strand-based Hair, Dynamic Cloth, new Figures, and FireFly, Poser 5's powerful new renderer. Use Morph Putty to directly manipulate facial expressions. Create realistic dynamic cloth and make it flow and drape around any object in your scene. Build powerful node-based material shaders to create any material texture you can imagine. The Poser 5 Content CD contains a host of extras, including props and textures.

The simplified drag-and-drop interface puts the 3-D power you need at your fingertips. Drag objects into the window, and drop textures onto them. Add lights and cameras to a scene the same way. You can even add automatic animation behaviors through simple drag and drop. Modeling wizards walk you through 3-D object creation step by step. You can model like a pro by allowing the modeling wizard to guide you.

Create entire 3-D scenes and worlds through a few simple clicks of the mouse. No longer will you have to deal with the "blank canvas fear," because the scene wizard will direct you through choices in lighting, backgrounds, objects, and more. Within minutes you can create 3-D masterpieces.

Ray Dream 3D includes over 750 Dream Models. These are high-quality models in nearly every category you can imagine. Use the models as they are, or add your own touch by changing the texture or the size. You can even take the model apart and see each piece. Every piece may be completely customized and animated. In addition, the product includes hundreds of beautiful textures and light and camera presets.

Animation is easy with Ray Dream 3D. You can drag and drop behaviors like spinning or bouncing onto an object, and the objects are automatically animated. Complete frame control is also available. Any changes you make to a model can be automatically recorded to occur over time. Preview or play back animations using simple VCR-like controls.

Ray Dream 3D supports all of the most popular graphics file formats. Save animations as QuickTime or AVI movies. Output sequenced GIF files for animation on the Web. Ray Dream 3D outputs finished files in the most popular graphics and movie formats.

You can render 3-D files using your choice of renderer, including ray tracing. In addition you can render both images and animations in artistic hand-drawn styles such as cartoons, paintings, and sketches using the natural-media renderer.

The Adobe Creative Suite is an integrated design environment that combines the most complete upgrade in Adobe's history--featuring full, new versions of the tools you rely on most for image editing, illustration, page layout, and cross-media output--with innovative file-management features, a smooth Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) workflow, and comprehensive design resources. Create and publish content for print and the Web faster and more easily than ever before--all at an outstanding value. Adobe integration makes it possible. The Adobe Creative Suite makes it affordable.

Number of Videos: 105 Lessons - 9.75 Hours Duration
Ships on: DVD-ROM
User Level: Beginners
Works On: Windows 7,Vista,XP- Mac OS X

In this training video for the 3D modelling software, Carrara, expert author Phil Wilkes picks up from where he left off in his beginners title for Infinite Skills. This tutorial is a look at advanced techniques for creating objects within Carrara. Phil starts with the a quick overview of managing resources, preferences and other housekeeping items. From there, he jumps right into UV mapping, which is utilized extensively throughout the training course. Covering subjects such as movement, constraints, shaders and texturing, you will dig deep into the capabilities of this software. Phil covers much requested subjects such as creating and modelling your own clothes, and creating and rendering full scenes. This course is not for the beginner, and you should be comfortable with the basics of using Carrara before jumping into this training course. By the completion of this title, you will have had extensive experience in creating, modelling, animating and rendering 3D objects with Carrara. Comprehensive working files are included with the course, so you can work with the same resources as the author, and learn on the exact files he is using.

Designed by professional artists from the game, film, television, and design industries, Mudbox combines an intuitive user interface with a powerful creative toolset of stencils and brushes for ultrarealistic 3D character modeling, engaging environments, and stylized props. Get the Autodesk Mudbox 2012 Software today!

Carrara 4 Pro software keeps professional designers ahead of the curve by offering superior performance capabilities and an extraordinarily abundant toolset. This highly developed software has the same competencies and highly intuitive interface as our Standard version but adds advanced features such as sound support, 3D and vector motion blur, blurry reflections, extended import capabilities and more. Additionally, the Eovia Chain Network Rendering feature delivers ultra-fast image and animation rendering by distributing tasks across a local network of up to five computers. Carrara 4 Pro also comes pre-loaded with: