Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Making movie stars / musicians in poser 5

Robert_Ripley opened this issue on Apr 27, 2004 ยท 10 posts


Zarabanda posted Tue, 27 April 2004 at 3:36 PM

Attached Link: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/3d_celebrities/

"A lot of people use FaceGen Photofit for making digital clones from photos, then just "frankenstein" the head to a poser figure." As far as I know, CeeBee and myself are the only ones doing that, or at least who have posted the results. RR, theres good news and theres bad news. The good news is digital cloning CAN be done. The bad news is, its not cheap or easy. There are a lot of different ways to do it, and each individual artist finds their own method. Of course, the results vary from breathtaking to laughable. I don't know how skilled you are with 3d modelling and texturing, but I will say this much; when you're trying to recreate somebody's face, the mesh must conform to the texture and not the other way around. Generally in poser we take source photos (like a celeb pic) and cut/paste/transform/blend them onto the uv template. This can create excellent photorealistic textures but the end result bears very little resemblance to the actual person being cloned. In other words, the mesh must be built to the specifications of the texture, you can't just slap somebody's face on a poser figure and say "gee, that sure looks like so and so." If you're serious about being able to do this, join the yahoo group I have linked here, I co-mod it with CeeBee and it is dedicated to this discussion.