Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: ok I finally have to ask Poser eeeeeever used for something famouse?

DarkElegance opened this issue on Aug 26, 2003 ยท 46 posts


EricofSD posted Wed, 27 August 2003 at 1:03 AM

I've been experimenting with larger format prints, like 13 x 19 inch. Unfortunatetly I have to say that so far the images look way more fake than the small ones we see in the gallery. The texture maps just don't blow up very well. So I would find it hard to imagine Poser on the big screen at the theatres. However, I have not given up on this! There's no doubt that Poser is very easy to morph and animate in. I'm thinking that Poser may be a good tool to create the characters and then export the mesh and bone and animate in a higher end program such as EIU or Maya or SI. Probably the reason we don't see Poser in the box office is because the folks who really make a living doing box office special effects can create their own characters in those high end programs and don't use Poser as a shortcut. Although I will say this, its my understanding that even though the movie Final Fantasy was made mainly with Maya, there was a scene in there that used a Bryce mountain mesh. The "famous" shows we all know about are done by a team of specialists who are either modelers, or animators, or texturors, etc. And the renders are done on render farms. It takes a team like that several months to make the flic. So that means any of us who are a one man band with a PC will be YEARS producing the quality needed to become "famous". Even if the texture problem was solved in Poser, there's still the production time. EIU has a lightning fast render engine, like way fast, like blink your eye fast, compared to a raytracer. That means something. EIU has a motto, "work hard, render fast, retire young". The folks who used EIU on Star Trek Voyager did just that, they spent tons of time making the models and animating them and then rendered very fast. Plus there are things like blue screen and rotoscope etc, for compositing your 3D animation with real filming footage. That requires plugins which just are not made for apps like Poser. Ok, that said, I think the anime is doable in Poser because the quality and radiosity and HDRI and soft body dynamics just don't need to be there for that sort of stuff. I would think that a flic like Titan AE could be done in a semi cell / anime / textured rendered film. That's a genre I have not seen yet. So far, its either real life composite like Jurassic Park, or cartoon like Titan AE, but no in between. Well, maybe we should try it. Someone can write a script and we can all work on it and put a video together. Who knows.