Age is one thing, but I'm very interested in why or how people got into Poser. OK so I'm an old timer, but when I was in grade school, I use to do flip sheet animations. When I graduated from art school, It was when computers were just starting to put they people who set type by hand. For the wippersnappers, that's a piece of metal which at thethat they hand picked up and placed in a container and ran ink over to do the printing. Think of it as something like the horse and buggy and the car. one end was a certain size and style letter, from 6pt to 72pt usually. Anyway I got a job at a TV station to do there artwork. There was a company with a neat but simple cartoon characture that I tried to have our salesman talk them into an animated 5 second TV spot with the rest of the spot to fill in. They liked the artwork and the layout samples but TV stations prices were so high, and then adding the animation time, they decided not to do it. Then on my own I had an animation (short about 10 minutes) that I wanted to see what the cost would be to do for myself. (much more involved that the TV Ad of 5 seconds) I added up all the special cells that it would take, the special paint needed and the time to do the artwork and camera set with the background and all, for the cartoon short. My dream had ended when my tally was added up, as far as making an animation. I had my own art gallery a number of years later, with my paintings, drawings. I read this artical in some magazine that dealt with video equipment and it had an artical on Poser as an animation program. I was sold, I had to have it. One day I was looking for Adobe Illustrator at a computer store so I could do my own advertising, when I saw Poser4 on the shelf. I gobbled it up. I might be able to do my animation project after all. Well I have updated through all the posers and now Poser 6, along with Vue and Truespace. With the all the quality updates, and quality content. You can buy just about anything you need, or make it myself. Then Animate it. Now I write novels and use Poser with the other programs to Illustrate my books. and am as happy as anyone can be. I can not make a full length movie with sound, mimic the voices, drop in sound effects, video effects, Put it togather with Adobe Premier, and affter Effects with great backgrounds. As Andy Griffin might say, I'm in hog heaven! That's my story and I'm stickin to it.

I've loved art since I was a little kid. I've always found ways to express my creativity be it drawing, or doing crafts. I got my first computer early in 2000 and not long after found my way to Paint Shop Pro. The first time I made something in PSP I was hooked on digital art. Early last year I found myself "uninspired" when it came to PSP and realized that while I loved it, I felt limited and at the end of the road. Some years back someone mentioned Poser to me and felt that I would love it. However, something always took priority and I never got the program. Last year when I found myself uninspired with PSP, I looked into Poser but it was out of my financial range by then. I saved and finally got the program in May or June last year. I hated it for the first 6 months because it was nothing but a lesson in frustration due to the lack of total newbie friendly tutorials that take you literally step-by-step through each and every action. I uninstalled and installed the program dozens of times between the time I got it and the fall. Finally someone at DAZ noticed my total frustration with it and took me under his wing and walked me through doing my first scene in Poser. That was all I needed...someone to literally hold my hand and verbally walk me through doing things step-by-step. I still have tons to learn and basically play "dress up barbie" but I'm learning slowly and am liking Poser a whole lot more these days. I dabble in commercial ventures, but not on a serious basis. It's mostly just a hobby for me :) My friends tell me that I should stop giving away my art and start charging on a consecutive basis, but I love creating so much, I feel guilty taking people's money for something I had such fun creating. Besides that, I suck at putting prices on things, LOL

Loved art & love computers. Started with PSP7 and as Acadia said was well ok, what's next. Got the KPT scene builder filter & was WOW, now that's I'm trying to do. So, off I went around the web looking for programs that could accomplish the 3d look. I should add within my financial price range. Then it was Poser, then Vue. Also have Bryce, Mojoworld and Terregen(registered version). The prior 3 mentioned I've only dabbled with & they just haven't clicked for me. Now I'm off trying to start a business on my own and hope to have it going by mid 2006. Keeping my fingers crossed :)

It was the only posing app available in '95 for less then about $1500 ;-) It's still (imo) the best way to learn the basics of rigging figures.

I got a free copy of poser 1 with a magazine and then poser 3 and was disappointed that it didn`t do clothing. I bought poser 4 soon after.

I wanted to become addicted to buying things I never use, pull my hair out when the computer locked up, and try and learn from a manual that is inacurate and not complete. So far it's been all I had hoped for and more :) shrug the real answer is less amusing. Love of art and had a contract for a bands CD cover, got poser.

I got into Poser via media fandom. You know, those crazy women who write often x-rated stories about Kirk and Spock or Mulder and Scully or Harry and Snape. ;-) There are quite a few digital artists who use Poser, Photoshop, and other software to, well, put fictional characters into incriminating and often anatomically improbable positions. I stumbled across web site with a gallery, and was amazed. I never imagined anything like Poser existed. I went on Amazon and read the reviews, and bought PP immediately. (And later kicked myself, because it was $30 cheaper at the CuriousLabs web site.)

I loved art. But particulary have a love of digital art. I can't draw by hand at all. I'm hopeless lol. I started making siggy tags with psp7....but became interested in poser, got the program and was lost so it sat there for a long time..and then just by chance I joined a copyright concious tag group and there, in Jan 2005 Lyric_ started lessons and I began to fulfill a dream I had for a long time.

It started with my addiction to roleplaying games. I had the weirdest, most chaotic group of players when I was a game master, and the adventures that developed were so wacky I just had to write them down. Then I wanted to illustrate the story. Picked up a demo of Poser Pro Pack somewhere, tried a few things, and I liked the 3D environment. I seriously considered buying ProPack, but I saw the announcement of Poser 5 on the CL site and decided to wait. As soon as it was available I bought Poser 5. And before I knew it I was totally hooked.

To make 3D looking stuff. Saw pictures of them on the net and decided to try to find a program that could do it. Found a lot of them were done with a program called Poser. Went looking for it and found Amazon.com had Poser 5 for $150, so I bought it. Joy of Joy, I later found out after I had bought it, not only could I make 3D looking pictures, I could even animate them.

In the mid90s someone had a snarky website consisting of a gallery linking to other peoples' Poser 1 renders with obnoxious captions like "I Have No Genitals And I Must Scream." Early 2000, I was working my new job and tried to find this site to show someone -- I googled "Poser" and the results blew my mind. And that was before I found the pr0n.

Can't remember exactly when but a friend gave me Poser4 and later Pro enhanced. I started drawing as soon as I could hold a pencil. Then anything and everything artistic caught my attention. I do crafts, did oil paints, so why not 3D? Never had any art training except what I could learn from books. And now I do believe I'm addicted to Poser...sigh.

I was tired of jumping up and down in the mirror and drawing left handed so I thought poser might help with the basics. This was poser (no number) so that is all it could help with. Each version got better and DAZ models came out so that helped greatly. I still jump up and down in the mirror to draw but not nearly as much.

I was in a PSP group and we had problems with copyright. So I decided to buy Poser and create my own tubes and images. As I can't draw very well now (health problems that make my hand not as useful as they once were), with Poser I can create nice images and cute tubes that I will eventually put up for free on my website so that there will be no copyright issues when my tubes are distributed in PSP groups. I got sidetracked though... I spend so much time buying stuff and downloading freebies that I don't have time to play with Poser! loll

I had to build a website for a RPG and characters - so Poser looked like the way to make them :)

Dangit Machine Claw you beat me to my answer of "I got it to see how long it took to loose all my hair!" Seriously, I got it after getting hooked on Bryce because I wanted people in my Bryce images. Now it seems I only use Bryce to make backgrounds for my Poser images. Go figure!

I draw comics since the age of six, by traditional methods. I love computers and graphics. When FINAL FANTASY - THE SPIRIT WITHIN was released, I was stunned with the animation. I readed the official page (dissapeared) about the creation process of the CGI characters, I learned the meaning of "textures", "HDRI", "specular" ... in one of my net searchs with that words, I found Curious Labs and a software called Poser4 ... and the rest is just history ;)

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Love of Roleplaying Games and the need to create original pictures of my characters, also a love of 3D graphics & getting Poser 1 & 3 as freebies on magazine cover cds.

Poser is like crack...Highly addictive, and it gets more expensive when you want more...But I still love it.

I got it to help illustrate my short stories (to get me out of the writters block).....then I could not afford to buy the textures i wanted, so i learned to make my own. Now all I do is make textures, and my stories still sit there un-illustrated after 4 years LOL but no regrets ;)

Like Rawnrr, I too started poser to help illustrate short stories as well as character sketches for novels. SInce I couldn't draw I thought it would help me making comics, but I soon realized that artistic ability is artistic ability...I am getting better but after all these years I thought I would be better.

I wanted to do my own comic books, but I can't draw a straight line with the help of a ruler. I found an ad for Poser 1 in a computer magazine and got it. Then followed up with poser 2 and 4 and finally 5. I really like P5 and plan to get P6 as soon as it stops being so buggy....

I already had several of Fractal Design/MetaCreations software. They used to send postcards by mail to their registered users when a new program came out, or when a new version was in the pipeline. When I got the postcard announcement for Poser (Poser 1) I thought it was pretty cool! Being a graphics software junkie I knew it would be something that I would enjoy ... because the original intent was to use it as a starting point for those who needed a figure reference for other types of art. Poser 1 was cool ... Poser 2 even better ... but nowhere near what it is now. It's been a fun ride to go through each release and seeing it blossom into a program that can create photorealistic humans! I can't wait to see what the future has in store.

Tax refund..;) If I had known it was my last ever..sigh..Was bored one day, looking for Wallpapers, then found the Slawico 'ultimate fantasy and Sci-fi' site, went through all 1,100 links, and kept hitting 'rosity..;) looked around, decided I wanted Bryce and Poser..and the rest is history..

Comics. Comics. Comics. 'nuff said.

Well basically for me it's a hobby (I work as aerospace engineer): I make wallpapers from my favourite Comics characters and also pinups of the characters my friends and I use in our Dungeons and Dragons gaming. Well, I know some ways to spend my money and time, uh? Here are my galleries (no porn/no nudities... just fantasy): http://img280.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=composition5dp.jpg (Comics) http://img271.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=vladd0006qt.jpg (D&D) Greetings! Mario

As a kid, I liked to doodle, but all I could really draw were stick figures -- not that stopped me from making epic battles of hundreds of stick figures. As I got older, I got more and more interesting images in my head, but my ability to draw never advanced beyond stick figures. I never attempted any formal training, but all my "self-taught" attemtps were unmitigated disasters. So, while my imagination and standards increased, my ability to do anything about it dropped to zero. Years later, I actually got into the computer graphics field as a programmer, and I was exposed to some computer animation packages. I used industry contacts and eventually employee discounts to get some of these $3000+ packages, but I never got much past rendering poorly textured spheres and boxes. The learning curve was just too steep. Meanwhile, I'd gotten into photography and was able to vent some creative juices that way. I did some landscapes, figure studies, portraits, etc. All just for fun, but friends of friends would seek me out whenever they needed a photog for a project. Then in 1999, my job took me to Siggraph. I'd always meant to go but had never been able to. I'm not sure if I actually ran into Poser while I was there, but I do remember that shortly afterwards, I was logging into Renderosity, and then I was installing the Poser 4 demo. While it still had issues, the learning curve was easy. With very little effort, I was able to get at least something interesting, and I could see that it was possible to do quite a bit more. I was hooked, sort of. I would fiddle with it, trying to work out the images from my head, but I never quite got what I wanted. I moved to Poser 5 and got a better feel for how to control materials and took some interested in dynamic hair and cloth, especially as they looked like they could reduce the need for postwork. (Remember -- I can't draw more than stick figures!) But while I could do something better, it still didn't flow. Then this spring, I got back from a fairly relaxing business trip and decided to try it again, and this time everything clicked, and I've been at it since. In the meantime, all of my other creative hobbies (writing, photography, etc.) have all dribbled down to zip. The irony is now that I finally broke through the barrier, I find I can draw a little. If I need a custom texture, I think, "Sure, I can just draw that out in Photoshop."

I wasn't really interested in Poser. I was more focused on modeling. Metacreations gave it to me to test while I was waiting for the next Raydream Beta. Curse you Metacreations! ;-)

Because Poser is one of those wonderful tools that let people with no "traditional" artistic talent whatsoever (like well, ME!) actually able to make something that looks haveway decent!

The chicks, man. Chicks dig 3D artists.

Wait....

You mean they don't?

Well, crap.

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LOL @ RKane... It's the dudes man! The Dude's dig the 3D artists! ;)

Hrmmmm.... So why can't I find a date? o.O

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Oh, yeah, the chicks!!! I love photography. Where I could find chicks so ready to pose for me? IN POSERLAND!!!! :D

I owed Larry some money so I had to work it off. That was early 1996.

I have always been into computer art. I started with a Commodore 64 and the art package Mouse and Cheese. I also had what I think was called vidpaint. Then I had an Amiga with DeluxePaint and Personal Paint. I also got Cinema4d on a cover cd. Vistapro was used to make flybys of landscapes. I bought a pc magazine that gave away Poser 1 as it looked cool, I didn't even have a pc! Eventually, I got a pc and bought Poser 3, Bryce 3D and Ray Dream Studio as a package and haven't looked back. Still can't draw for toffee though!!