Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Status of new female Poser figures?

3DNeo opened this issue on Sep 22, 2005 ยท 25 posts


R_Hatch posted Fri, 23 September 2005 at 1:26 AM

"...there was a person working on this model..." "Spanki is working on a female figure as well. I don't know how completed it is." Spanki is Keith Young, whose signature you see in the lower right of the image :) I do wonder how he's doing with her, it certainly looks like she's quite well done as it is. "I would love to see better rigging and matrices for better posing and more REAL looking figures that are anatomically correct from the start. Hate having ken and barbie to work with! Can't imagine why someone hasn't picked up the ball and ran since there are many artists that want something better." You are right in wanting this. There really is no excuse for the lack of innovation from the various third party figure creators (with the possible exception of Anton's Apollo Max, which I don't have). Poser's rigging system is totally adequate as long as a character is modeled correctly and in the correct pose to be rigged. A couple of hints for the curious: (1) Anything that is composed of fat should NOT be modeled as a part of the base figure. Use morph targets to add these in order to allow the rig to do its job. An exception to this would be if your character is obese. (2) Modeling the legs straight down from the hip, with NO SPACE between them is one of the STUPIDEST mistakes made by MANY professional figure modelers. There should be a 15-30 degree angle between the legs.