~points to the title~ well? has it? ever? I mean have we seen poser used in anything that is famouse or well known?

Famous? Well known? Like? It's been used for cover and interior illustrations in all types of magazines (from computer related, to science, to whatever). Seen the characters on several commercials. Do you mean used in a block-buster movie like "Finding Nemo" or "Final Fantasy"? Well, probably not. But then, Poser isn't "professional studio" software that costs tens of thousands of dollars ~points to SoftImage, Houdini, Character Studio, and DeepPaint 3D~ Does it really matter? ;)

Poser was used a bit for Robert Rodriguez's cinematics for Spy Kids 2. I don't know how much they used when they went to final render, that was mostly lightwave from what he said in an interview. Poser has been used in some major movies, just not as final production. it's a cheap and easy way to block out a scene show where and how characters will interact as in this actor does this and this actor does that, then they can see timing etc. There has not been a major famous thing that I could point to and say, oh yeah that movie blah blah that was poser and vicki etc. ONe of my prof's in college used poser for anatomy class, built slides etc. Poser is getting more and more realistic, givin the time to render out frames, high quality textures and the affordability someone soon will put out a poser made 3d movie I'm sure. I'm using it to block out storyboards for something I'm toying and writing. used all over as others have said.

IT was used as a choreography tool for the One with Jet Li to develope the fight sequences. Unfortuunatly it's still a bit crude for final to film rendering, but it's getting ther awfully quick! mike

ok but ...I dont know I was wondering if it has ever been used in a movie or on a CD cover of a major artist or band...I am curiouse well actually have a bet riding on it. I mean I see some flat out amazing work in here and I have to think.....hasnt anyone snagged this or that artist and done something fab with it?

Gunna be used on the new Iron Maden album cover, tshirts too. unfortunately it's a HORRIBLE example of what can be done with Poser. I used Poser on an album cover, unfortunately the band is NOT famious, they didn't sign and the deal went belly up. I think their mp3s are still on Mp3.com though.

I have seen Poser work in ads for Court TV's Forensic Files, Several parodies using Poser in Entertainment Weekly over the past year or so. Also the P4 Dork is often spotted in the syndicated show The Third Wheel. Saw Vicky and Michael in a Spike TV ad (a long time ago...fairly sure it was promoting TNN's change to Spike-the first try that is)..

It was used for some of the shots in Equilibrium. Final Shots. Poser figures walking around rendered in 3DS Max. Used in opening shots in Cats and Dogs. Finals Pre-Visualization in Jet Li's "The One". There are others but I just can't think of them know.

Even though they aren't famous I let a local band use a rendering I did for there CD cover.

MTV has a commercial now that has a bunch of heads on shelves and it is obviously Victoria 2. Entertainment Weekly magazine has Poser people in some of their article illustrations. Michael's semi-transparent head is on one commercial for a pain reliever. What surprises me is the "professionals" often don't even alter the default characters with any unique morphs or textures!

Next spring a documentary is comeing out useing the art of a few of us here. It's called a Perfect Fake. It will be on the documentary channel.

One amusement park uses Poser to make the ads for its new roller coaster...

It was used in the storyboarding for Ecks vs. sever, done by the former 3D-CC host MaximumImpact.

There is a Forensic program on Discovery channel that often show rotating poser figures to 'point out' the sites of gruesome injuries (lovely stuff!) Unfortunatly they are plasticy Posette and Dork - no modifications what so ever!

I've got 2 CD covers out (one music and one game) using Poser as part of the production (final compositing in PhotoShop. There is a movie about the last dream of the Elephant Man, where Poser was used throughout, and I've heard about a couple of other projects like that, but I think you have to go to art houses to see such things. Carolly

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.

Oh, and I'll say this, the Blair Witch Project was easily done with the cheapest of equipment and quite a success. So who cares what the "guru's" are using. Lets get a script together and our camcorders and sell a bunch of pet rocks!

..The Dancing Baby.."cha cha baby"from Ali Macbeal..

designed & built by Chris Creek of Zygote/DAZ fame :-)

Attached Link: http://www.3-axis.com/demos.html

Well we didn't do a feature film but we did do a 5 minute music video that played on BET (black entertainment television). We being me one of my partners at www.3-AXIS.com . You can see part of the female in the Demo Reel under the demos section of the website. Anything that has a fairy in it is part of that animation. I did all the character work with modified characters of Michael 1 and Victoria 2. We then saved the scenes after I animated them and brought them into LightWave for rendering. We rendered Poser Scenes inside of LightWave on a 20 machine render farm. We did the whole 5 min. all CG video in 6 weeks. It should have taken six months to get it completely cherry. I also completely did the animation of "The Amazing Dr. Melon" (also on the website) in Poser 5 using cloth hair and the Firefly renderer. I completed it from start to finish in a week. I broke up the files and rendered frames on 3 machines. That whole thing in a week was hard. I didn't sleep much! Agian, I didn't render out film resolution but it worked great. EricofSD: Those movies don't take months, they take years. Something like Monsters Inc. was 3 years.

I noticed what sure looked like Poser base figures used for the Daredevil animatics. (wasnt rendered in Poser though) and some whacko used Poser to create a comic strip for one Radio's most popular morning shows. (Bob & Tom's Shirtless Girl) That same whacko also got mentioned several times on the same syndicated show (over 125 affilates in the U.S.) MILLIONS of listeners. Groupies! Same said whacko also did storyboard for the movie "2001 Maniacs" though the movie has never been filmed. Curious Labs has a few articles where Poser's been used in magazines like Maxim and Time... also seen Vicky in the Wall Street Journal. But as already noted, the "Dancing Baby" is probably the most famous Poser animation. The volume of copycats was astounding.

Uh.. The original Dancing Baby was done in 3DS Max version 1 with character studio. I did a Sumo Baby animation that was on the Poser 3 content disk but it wasn't the dancing baby. Interesting note on the mesh used for the dancing baby. Chris Creek (the guy at DAZ that models Mike and Vicky) created that model. He then left that company before they did the dancing baby. They needed someone to take credit for it so they gave credit to another guy that worked at Kinetics. Kinetics is now Discreet. I know it'll never pop up in any trivia games but interesting none the less. Joe www.3-AXIS.com

I think it was used on the front cover of a computer game, can't remember the name of the game. Something "ghost ??????" mansion or hunter or something like that. Don't know if it is used within the game?

GHOSTMASTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! also there was a tycoon type game where you sell cars, I forget what it's called, but poser was used to do all the cut scenes/movies in the game.

Attached Link: http://www.ghostmaster.com

oops forgot to give a link to the game :)

mansion, hunter! I was close ish.

oh yes, games that reminds me, massive Posette action in those Nancy Drew games.

I've seen ads here for that new Iron Maiden album. Jiminy Cricket did they even use textures?

The cartoonist Steve Caplin uses Poser a lot, His work often appears in magazines and papers (there was an obvious Poser piece in the Guardian's Cartoon Special supplement last week).

Well.... I went to see Queen's stage show "We Will Rock You" about 6 months ago in London, and they used Poser figures in some animated sequences that were projected on huge plasma screens at the back of the stage - no textures or nice stuff, so you could tell straight away that it was the P4 dork and dorkette.

catch the cable channel called Trio,, sometimes you will see, Poser models of MM and V2 appear ( with speech bubbles) they appear over diff. type of progs they have, ( after 10pm est) i have noticed it. i have also notice someone in charlotte did a commercial for town and country toyota car,, it has a superman type figure, ( non poser) but, it has a Vicky as woman looking for the best car deal,, you can look at the face, hair, eyes, to know its a poser model. i recenly did a hour long movie using poser models. sent acopy to the client, to DAZ and to cooler. Dann Farr really loved it and thought it was well composed for one person to do. i plan to submitt it as a short film to different cable stations. i wish i could up some clips of the movie, but i can't , not until after the 29th of Sept. and then you might have to get the clips from the attic.us. / the hr long movie in a avi file is 25 gigs, and in a movie file is 22 gigs. but i can ( after the 29th of Sept snip some clips from it ) and up it at the attic.

eric said; "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. " a big part of that is poser isn't taught as a tool like Maya or LW in college.

reminds me again, in the Witchblade movie, there was a creepy, assueredly Posette dancing with the curly hair.

The Queen musical "We Will Rock You" (Dominion Theatre, London West End) 2002 Commonwealth Games Intro (BBC TV) Regularly used in BBC TV news (graphics for news items) At my local stationary store on their advertising billboard ;-) Cheers

In addition to those already mentioned, I've spotted Poser and/or Poser models in the following places: TV: MTV Movie Awards (Posette hangs with Sean William Scott and Justin Timber-whats-his-name) The Most Extreme (Dork & Co on Animal Planet, amusing animations!) PRINT: FHM (or is it Maxium?) (Dork and/or Michael show up in every issue) USA Today, TIME, and my local newspaper (informational graphics) "Who Are You?" and "How Psychic are You?" (books series with heavy Poser use) bB

How about the new "Video-head" contest on MTV?

ooh ooh just remembered, they used poser to set up a lot of the fight scenes in Jet Lee's The One, it shows it on the DVD version too :)

The new Spider-Man animated series done by Mainframe will use cel-shading. Not Poser, but there it is.

Not 100% sure, but intro sequence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer dvd (2nd or 3rd season I think) has a crypt with a statue that looks very much like Posette with a stone texture.

I love the Spider-Man, all the figures have such flow, it is a treat to watch.

I've got all the Nancy Drew games and there is definitely some Vicky usage in there as well. It seems HerInteractive upgrades along with the rest of us. :) Kate (who is wondering if V3 will make an appearance in the next game or so)

I was going to mention Nancy Drew games too. I have four of them which I bought only to check out the Poser figures, then found the games themselves intriguing (who cares if they're supposed to be for younger girls). And like someone mentioned, Discovery Channel uses Poser a lot. TV commercials use standard P4 figures without changing them and they look tacky (the commercials).

i was reading one of our national newspapers today (UK) and they are sharting a new comic strip on september 8th,untill then they are running a promo to introduce the characters,and the ones they have showed so far are vicky 3 characters,they havn't yet said what program was used,but it was definately vicky 3

Which paper (not the Grauniad, unless I really need new glasses)?

the Daily Star,i tried looking on their website but they don't have much on there,only a picture of the front cover,no pics of the comic strip,the female character they introduced today was created using montana skye :)

Thanks.