Let's have a fun topic for a change. How long have you been using Poser and which version have you started out with? I'm just curious to know how long some of you guys have been using this program. :) I'm biting my nails right now while watching th Super Bowl. lol.

Since 1999... Wow like 5 years almost!! I'd have thought I'd be better at it by now!! ;) LOL!!

Since 1998 or so, but I only played with the program for a long time. (I seem to recall that I got it bundled with something, but it's been so long I can't remember.) bonni

hmm..more than 2 years, less than 3..started with 4, then 3 (hey, isn't that supposed to go the other way?..;) I've only in the last coupla months actually used it, except as a way to populate Bryce renders..;)

Just over a year.

Since 2001. I started with 4. For a while i played with the German version of 3 that I got free from a German website.

Since some time during the previous millenium :)

Stumbled across some early works posted by Bushi, then found PFO, and ran out and got P3 - 10/98.

April, 1998.

1999 or a wee bit sooner. Started with 4 and still using it.

wow, Damn, I've just barely begun to understand P4 been at it for no more than under a year. I always wondered what the older versions were like. I'm just a beginner compared to you guys lol. Do you ever find yourself running out of ideas though?
Pats won so I can get back to poser. ;)

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Since about 97 or 98. Started with Poser 2, but really didn't do much with it until Poser 3 was released.

I started with Poser 2 and I'm guessing here, but it might have been around 1995 or 1996. (Maybe later, but my memory is pretty well shot, lol) Talk about a totally different interface! But I didn't really get into it till I started coming here when it was called (Poser Forum?) and Zygote, now Daz, had just released the V2 Fairy.

Nearly 2 Years now. Also you will never run out of Ideas. Soon as you understand new things in Poser, endless Ideas start to happen.

ideas? no. time? ....

2 years next month.

What's 'Poser'?? Oh, that program hogging up my whole second hard drive!!! OK, well I think it was around 1997 when I got Poser4, my brother had a copy of Poser3 on his old computer when he gave it to me but he had lost the manual and I never quite figured out what it did but it look interesting...so when Sharp Electronics gave me a corporate card and said "Go buy yourself some somewhere and learn about graphic artists" I saw a copy of Poser4 on Fry's shelf, grabbed it and have been hooked ever since.....It was something else before Metacreations wasn't it? I think it was an update that changed the name but I can't remember the original company's name anymore.....oh well, DAMN YOU CURIOUS LABS, DAMN YOU TO H*LL!!!!!

I've owned Poser since version 2. Got Version 3 from a mag after I purchased Poser 4w/Propack. Now I have Poser 5. All the while, I've only actually used Poser Pro and Poser5 though. lol.

I have used it since Poser 1 ... Around 10 years or so I think but I am not really sure. Since the begining though.

Poser 1 eh?,what features did the first version have? I started a couple years ago on Pro pack.

Started with poser 2 didn't like, played around with poser 4 w/pro pack didn't care for it eithr, then I bought poser 5 ,been using it almost 2 years.

Four years and started with Poser 4

I heard about Poser at a computer trade show prior to Poser (one's) release. I remember calling every 2 months for over a year to find out when "that posable mannequin program" was due out while deadline after deadline for release was missed. Got to where the woman on the switchboard and I were on first-name basis, and chatted more often than I did with most of my family members. G I think it was about 11 months before Fractal Design (I think that was MetaCreation's previous name) would accept my credit card order, and even then they were obliged to offer to cancel the transaction every 6 weeks thru several more missed deadlines before they started shipping. Nostalgic Sigh Memories, memories . . . What a change from today - Those were the days, eh?

I started with Poser 1 too, but only used it to print figures that I could trace. Bought 2, 3, and 4 as soon as each came out, started making digital art with 4. I skipped Pro Pack and Poser 5, now I'm using DAZ Studio. If 6 looks to be an improvement over 5, I might give it a try. ;) SnowS

I'm another user since the first version. I think ten years is about right ... 94 or 95-ish. What has changed? Yikes ... back then, Poser was basically just a digital mannequin that artists could use as a guide for their artwork. It was a far cry from what it is now. The figures were VERY low resolution, and I can't even remember if they used textures. No clothing either.

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I'm playing with Poser for a little over a year now. Did start with Poser 5. And there still to little time for Poser :(

wow! That was P1?? That looks awesome compared to P4. Edited to add not the figures but the interface. :)

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Poser 1 is the one shown in posts 23 and 24 in that thread. If you're talking about the one in Post 3, geep was having a little bit of fun with "an easter egg" in Poser 4, I think. LOL

Post number 3. That interface looks cool.

since -99 or 2000 Poser4 still using it. :)

Latter half of 2002!

http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?Form.ShowMessage=541446#15

I scanned this ad from a Tiger Direct catalogue; I still have a copy.

Bought P4 during the Fall of 2004. I wanted P5 but at that time it was so buggy that I decided to wait. I try to read all the forums and keep up with what's up. I got P5 last summer and I love it. I want P6 but again, I will wait to read how it goes before I put out the money!

I discovered P3 on the front cover of a 3D magazine about four years. I had it sitting on my PC for a couple of years with only the very occasional use. Then about 2 years ago, I bought P5, and was suddenly and incurably hooked.....

ohhh nearly 4 years. Bf liked some renders in some sites and I wondered what this poser thing was. I am addicted to it ever since.

It will be 2 years come April - Started with Poser 5 which was bought for me as birthday present. I had never even seen poser before, let alone used it. Boy was that manual confusing - thank God I found Renderosity in time to save my sanity (if not my credit card).

Think it was Poser 1. Then followed it up, but doing nothing in the program but opening and having a look. Using trail/demos. Not until about a year ago when I got Poser 5 first one I actually rendered a picture in.

About a week before the official retail release of Poser1 ... I was working in a software store at the time and specialised in graphics programs. I remember thinking at the time what neat thing it was and if they kept working it would be a very useful program some day. And now .. well we're looking at a new release soon from what I've heard and I make my rent from making stuff for Poser. Life sure does move along doesnt it. Lyrra the Ex-Evil Overlord

Poser 1 in the mid 90s.
I was teaching at an art and media school. I tried to convince the 'never been close to art creation in my life' people (them who made the decisions) that we should try 3D art and use Poser as one of the tools. No, that was too far away to be grasped tone of irony.
Anyhow, I continued working with Poser my self now and then.

Which version came with the first animals? Remember I got hilarious because I was working on my first computer horse game and there was a horse among the animals. Didn't use it though.

Those threads and images sure brings up a bunch of memories. :o)

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Poser 1 - from a UK personal computer world cover disc. card CD sleeve says 96. Lent the poser cd out (mostly likely to play Doom) and a mate lost it. Recall very strange blob like figure and thats it. The machine would've probably been a 486 with 4-8mb of ram. Around that time no sites like rendo, internet access was via Uni (Telnet and VAX) and later via compuserve at home. 30 a month plus call charges to a local node that could only take 6 users - so you called around to see who was going online. Did'nt bother with poser until 3 was on a disc. Now it's not the technology thats the problem it's the girlfriend discovering ho much I spend on poser stuff!

When did Poser One come out? I have been using poser since then. I have Poser 1, still have the disks and manuals, Poser 2, Poser 4 and now Poser 5. I spend hours a day using poser and it is a good thing that I am retired and the time otherwise I would be in a world of trouble. I could see calling into work and trying to explain that I wouldn't be in today because Vickie's joints had exploded or something.....

I had version one back in the day, then upgraded to 4 Like in 2001? (For $99! Thank you CL!) kinda lost interest then got into it again when Poser 5 was announced, since then I've been steadily becoming a power user. I'll quite possibly get Poser 6.

P1 Beta. I'd like to find my critique, suggestions, and bug finds. Even after 11 years I know I'm still making some of the same suggestions that Larry and staff ignored oh those many years ago. The manual and disks from P1 release are sitting on my shelf to the left.

since spring 2001 where i bought poser 4. (i had a free poser2, but only played with it, and gave up, frustrated. this was the time before i found the poser forum on the internet).

Three or four years, I started off with poser 1 free with a magazine.

Oh, well....I've answered similar questions several times in various threads.....there's certainly no harm in doing it again. Since Poser 2. I don't recall the exact date when I purchased it. I suppose that I could make the effort to look up the date, if I was interested enough. I'm not really interested enough.

Since 1999 with the already old Poser 2

The first pic in my gallery here is dated July 2002. So I reckon about 3 or 4 months before that was when I started trying it out. Poser 4 with Propack. Started with that and I've never felt the need to upgrade yet.

About 2000. poser 4. Got a dicky ticker so i played with poser during my recuperation phases. Now addicted but illness still dictates when i use it. Had almost a year off during the divorce thing but now it's a permanant resident on its own hard drive. Jack