I was thumbing through the new issue of Heavy Metal last night at work and wondering if some of the contributing artists use poser, or a similar program, for some of their characters. Anyone know? Just a thought... E.D. P.S: or, does anyone know of any actual publications that use poser? Such as comics, magazines, etc. Issues that can be found in most any book or comic shop.

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Please don't anybody mention the cover for Iron Maiden's Dance of Death. It still gives me nightmares...

lol. don't know that one. is iron maiden still alive even? i had a friend in high school that was obsessed with that band. had all their albums, posters all over his room, etc. their "mascot's" name is/was eddy, which is the creature/dead thing featured on all their album covers. supposedly every album told a story about eddy's life. E.D.

actually it's Eddie ;) and yup the Iron's are still going strong. while Dance of Death had the worst cover ever, the music was bloody brillant... Khai - Iron Maiden fan since '86

dang, cool. your last name wouldn't be osmar, would it? heh. (spelling might be wrong. E.D.

Up the Irons! >:)

I've wondered about Fred Beltran's characters - not Poser necessarily, but possibly images based on 3D renderings. I've posted one here.

More generally in the sf/fantasy field, Fred Gambino definitely uses Poser. I'll post a pic of his to demonstrate when I can dig one out.

Scientific American makes regular use of Poser. Sometimes when referring to mineral chemistry they do mention heavy metals. :-)

There was a Vampirella Comic and Marvel Comics used a bit of Poser for their Heroes Return poster. (I would love to have the Celestial Poser characters, alas tis not to be.) Tempus Fugit (member here) also did a comic using Poser, Shanghai I think the title was.

Gill....whatever happened to Rodney Matthews, who used to fo Magnum's artwork? Any ideas, cos it seems like he's fallen off the planet... :-/

And, for that matter, Derek Riggs, who used to do the artwork for Iron maiden, before their iffy ventures into the use of 3d....

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Thanks Gill, went to the site......god, there's some memories there. I used to have a signed Matthews print, which unfortunately got stolen when my place was burgled in 91. Now, I gotta go find me a copy of Storytellers Night...saw Magnum 4 times in 3 years around that era. happy reminiscent sigh

Getting back to Heavy Metal, yes there are occasionally stories that are done with 3D software (not necessarily Poser). The Fall 2004 issue had one for example ("Sinkha: Hyleyn"). I haven't seen the latest issue yet, so I don't know about that one.

I still have the first issue of Heavy Metal put away in some box around hear, along with some Fabulous Freak Brothers, Harold Head(sp?). That stuff was all hand drawn. Not sure about the use of poser in the last couple of years but you can tell some are done in some kind of 3D prog.

I actually had a subscription until sometime in the late 80's..;) Always wondered if there was a tie between Mobius here, and the original artist..;)

The link is that our Moebius87 liked the 2D artist's work and named himself after him.