Well, how did you get started (hooked)?

Here's mine ................. Well, sort of. ;=]

cheers,
dr geep
;=]

P.S. It doesn't have to be a pic ... but it can be ifn ya want. ;=]

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I got the free version of Poser 1 in a UK mag, and it had a cheap upgrade to poser 3. At the time i fancied myself as a bit of a fashion designer so bought it to use as a base for sketches, never did get the hang ov drawing on a pc though :o)........Steve

I started using Poser with Poser 5 in March 2004. I was in a PSP group at Yahoo and we were having problems with copyright tubes and I heard about Poser around that time and tried it. Of course I bought it and my only goal was to create PSP tubes out of my Poser renders... It's been a year and a half since and I think I produced maybe 20 tubes so far. ;o)

I was working on a 3D project for Infogrames and teaching myself Maya. Somebody showed me Poser 4. I liked it because it showed me how easy it was to create finished images with not much faffing about. I was hooked.

Hey Paul ........... you know how to faff ?

Kin yuze teach me?

;=]

I got Poser 3 just before leaving my job as head of a Painting & Drawing program. I was leaving the USA and would not have access to my paid models (a list we at my institution and others kept private to keep away weirdos) or my friends from art school. For the longest time I wouldn't by content and pretty much just drawed from un-rendered preview screens and crudley hacked together props and clothes. In the past year, with buying P6 mainly, I have been spending money and buying content and playing at this hyper-real hi-res renders. I have done some commercial toon work with Poser but I keep meaning to do some pure landscape and still life for digital or Real World painting. I ought to be painting more in Real World. In the end I really want to stay close to the original idea, Real World painting using Poser renders as source. I have yet to find the perfect Painter's studio scene that I am looking for... Geral Day's and CtrlCmdDel's are nice but I have not found/made the perfect studio yet.

Hi, my name is Jack and i've been a poser addict since 2002 I was heavily into role playing games ands wanted to create an image of my own and other characters. I can't draw so i heard about poser, got it... and well i never did do the character portrait but that's when the addiction began.

I got hooked after I bought a 3-app bundle (Poser 3, RayDream 3D and Bryce 3 "it moves") for a total price of about 50. (This, of course, was just AFTER the newer versions had come out..) Never got on with RayDream (no proper export facilities), loved Bryce and Poser. But that was before I got "connected" (to the internet, that is). Then I discovered 'rosity, and started downloading free-stuff..... The addiction had set in and I could get my fixes free!! Cheers, Diolma

"Hey Paul ........... you know how to faff ? Kin yuze teach me? ;=]" Daktari, I'm an expert in faffing. If I'm not faffing about with Poser or Photoshop I'm faffing about with my guitars.

PS: have just realised why 'rosity can sometimes take so long to post a new message. It's 'cos their sophisticated Political Correctness policing programs are ensuring that you haven't drawn a nude/violent image using the text only, without flagging it..:-)) (Remember those old "dodgy" printouts from matrix printers?) Cheers, Diolma (flagged just in case..)

And that post got accepted in approx 1 sec!! Cheers, Diolma

@ Paul, Well then, faff on, amigo, faff on !

cheers, dr geep ;=] Had to set the "N" flg ................ just in case, ya know. ;=]

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I wanted dragons to put in my Bryce landscapes :D

I wanted to put dragons in my Vue landscapes! :)

I wanted to put people in my Bryce scenes and now I've forgotten how to use Bryce! LOL

NaySayGuy just wanted to put dragons in his dragons ... but he's still trying to figure out how to use Poser (That's Poser1).

;=].

Was looking for pictures and found 'rosity, saw a demo for something called "Poser 4 Pro Pack". Downloaded the demo, got frustrated because it wouldn't let me do anything (not that I really knew what I was supposed to be doing), and tossed it. Fast forward a couple of years, and I'd gotten tired of drawing poor characters for RPG purposes and otherwise, and started looking into Poser, and got P4. Took me a couple of weeks of playing to realize that you had to "render" images to get them to look pretty, because I didn't RTFM.

RTFM ???

Really
Try
For
Months

????????????????????????????

;=]

Yes, I really actually, actually know what RTFM stands for ... It's 8pu87878g7pp879pn99n90[8 ... parity error ... transmission terminated ...

Got P4PP from a friend. Just played with it at first, but thought it was a neat little app to fiddle with. Then P5 came out, and the same person got it for me (thinking I could make video game characters with it, oops!) I left it installed but didn't use it much over the past couple of years. Then, earlier this year, I was working on a website, where someone wanted images of a sexy woman, but done in CGI. I immediately remembered Poser, and fired it back up. Then I went to see if there were any updates (lol, like there wouldn't be, right?) Well, P6 was just about to come out. I saw the ads for the photorealism, and thought I just had to get my hands on it. Every day since, I have spent no less than a couple of hours playing with it. I even work while drinking my morning coffee. (The blasted Mat Room has made me late for work quite a few times over the past few months!)

Got my first 'puter in '97 and bought Ray Dream Studio and fell in love with Fry's electronics on the same day (west coast US), ensuring that I would constantly be broke. Saw Poser 3, looked cool. Downloaded as much content as I can find, which STILL litters my Runtime in case I'll ever need it. Didn't discover 'Rosity or Daz3d until 2002, further securing polygonal addiction.

Back in 2000 I bought a used PC(my first one) and started playing with Photoshop, trying my hand at animation with Image Ready. My discovery of Poser was quite an illegal and big learning experience! In 2001(or was it 2002?) I was using p2p networks* for music and downloaded Poser4 not knowing what it was. When I ran the program, a major virus (bundled with Poser) literally destroyed everything! Needless to say, after reinstalling everything (sans Poser and the p2p stuff) I decided to check out Poser4 legally. Been hooked ever since! Now I use Poser5 and totally love the animation capabilities that it has. Big hello to Geep, PhilC, snowsultan and too many others to list - you folks have been all too helpful in my Poser learning experiences. Wish you all the best! *On a side and OffTopic note: for those who still use the p2p stuff... Yeah sure, there's lots of cool stuff to get for free(that you really should be paying for) but, hey... there's also a plethora of nifty little ass-hammering viruses neatly bundled with a lot of that "cool free stuff". Ya been warned - kinda wish someone had warned me back in the day :P Lesson learned.

I encountered some images on the Net that were obviously not photographs, and obviously not painted. So I wondered "how did they do that?" Found out about Poser (ProPack was the "state of the art" - ahem - back then), downloaded the demo, twiddled and tried for a bit and decided I liked it enough to buy the full program. Then I saw that Poser 5 would be released just two weeks later. Decided to wait - I was thrilled by the idea of dynamic cloth and hair - bought P5 on the day that it was released and haven't had any kind of social life ever since. I don't remember how I found Renderosity. Probably while looking for Poser freestuff. Anyway, four months after buying Poser 5 I subscribed here, discarding all hopes for a social life.

2002, Final Fantasy, the movie. Although I had seen 3D movies before I was stunned with the skins... I visited the official page (it died) and there was some articles about how they had textured the 3D models... and browsing the gooogle with words like "textures", "render", I found a nice website called CuriousLabs... the rest is just history ;)

In fall 2000, I was a resident advisor in college when one of my residents mentioned a program called Poser. Mainly I had done all my art in pencil drawings, but for some program advertising I wanted to try something new so I tried out Poser 4 and got hooked. It didn't take to long before I had to look online for advice on how to use the program. That's how I found Renderosity :)

For years I used Paint Shop Pro exclusively. It got to the point that I was bored with it because I could pretty much figure out how to duplicate most everything I set out to. Last year I decided to look up a program called "Poser" that someone had mentioned to me back in 2000. It was kind of pricey and I had cut my work hours to part time due to health reasons and couldn't afford the expense. I came into some money through an inheritance last year and decided to use some of it to buy Poser. I found it very hard to get started in it. I got the download version and had no clue on how to install it. I found so many downloads at Curious Labs and didn't know where to install them. I called Curious Labs and even the guy I was talking to on the phone didn't have a clue. It took almost 2 hours for him to help me get Poser 5 installed. It was another 6 months before I figured out how to get a whole figure dressed, posed and lite up and rendered. And that was only thanks to the kindness of a poster at Daz who walked me through one in ICQ. I just couldn't get the hang of it on my own. Now, 18 months after buying the program, and 12 months after doing my very first render, I'm working with dynamic clothing, and finding my way (slowly) around the material room, and even doing some major tweaking of poses. Slow compared to so many other uses who seem to just leap right in and figure things out quickly. I've been a member of Renderosity for 3 or 4 years though. I used to know some people who used Poser and they had galleries here and for me to see the images I had to be a member.

...bought P5 on the day that it was released and haven't had any kind of social life ever since. Uh? Any Poseraddict has social life out of Poser??? Me not...

In April of 2002 I was looking for a way to express myself in an online communty I am part off. After a few weeks trying to find a way I decided to try Poser 4 later upgraded to Pro Pack. I was hooked about 6 months after Poser 5 came out I tried that out but I didn't like it nearly as much as Poser Pro Pack which I still use mostly. Even today I still use the Pro Pack vs the newer Posers for my pictures I make. I grew to like Alice in Wonderland type or Asian lifestyle themed Props to date I have nearly 30 Asian themed props from Lab 108 alone.

Got tired of drawing stick figures ... bought Poser 1 when it came out ... or shortly thereafter, and have been trying to get Poser figures into Vista Pro ever since...my first landscape program..version 1 on that as well. Thanks John for writing that one. then came Bryce V2 and on and on...

Does any one have P1 or P2 artworks they can show? I would love to see what people did back then!!

Wanted to make sprites for a game I was doing - and never finished. Poser was the ideal tool for making sprites, then I thought 3D sprites would be better so I went studying 3D deeper. I aim to get back to game programming one day, but I still like 2D animations.

Didn't know it at the time, but Poser 1 actually came with my first computer! It was an off the shelf markdown, and the price was right (though the one I'm currently using is vastly more powerful, with 100x more storage space AND a great video card, and still cost about the same). I never even knew it there, until a few months later, when I bought Raydream Designer 4, I noticed that there was another program listed in the Fractal Design folder. I thought it was an easter egg from the Raydream install. It was, er, interesting (we've come a long, loooong way baby). I had a HDD meltdown later on, and had to reformat. Reinstalling Raydream did not put Poser back, so I then figured out that one of the guys at the store must have stuck it on there (they did sell Poser). Saw a Poser 2 ad in a magazine, and the rest is Poser history.

I was bored with psp and loved all the wonderful 3d images I had seen on the net, found em under 3d wallpaper searches all the time lol. Over and over I would end up here, then reading the description under a pic saw the name poser looked it up and the rest is history as they say.....tip to newbies though look out those tutorials can be killer, the very first one I tried was for making "Angie" a tutorial for making realistic skin omg lol was I in over my head; no wonder I couldn't do it, still don't have that figured out just yet ;) I had just opened poser for the first time and that was where I tried to go with it...Still plan on tackling that one though!!

I was working with the Cubicom software way back in the '80s, later I forgot everything I had learned about CGI and decided to pick it up again. Was going through the web one lonely night, saw Posette and it was love at first byte... She still won't give me the time of day but I keep trying... Q

About 4 years ago broke my back and couldn't work. Bought a computer for the first time to help kill time. Cat jumped onto the keyboard when I was getting a coffee, came back and found this site on the screen. P4/P5/P6 now. Never could figure out if I should shoot the cat for costing me money and time or give him treats. I'm still thinking on it.

Hmmm. I've been an artist all my life. Love to draw fantasy scenes, westerns ... illustrations for stories and ideas. I even have a degree in Art ... but using live models are difficult and can be expensive ... but to Poser ... First time I saw Poser (1)I was a Graphic Designer for a print shop back in 1993. Didn't understand it's potential and shrugged it off. then... in '94 I was working in Fry's Electronic's Software department when I was introduced to Bryce 2 by a friend and wanted to populate my scenes. I got demo's of both programs (as a salesperson I got demos and free software all the time, a nice perk) and was hooked ever since. I hope to get enough work so I can afford to buy P6 pretty soon. :) Boni

I use to mainly do Photoshop stuff, and was never really into 3d. Got Poser 3 from Computer Arts when they gave it away for free (dont remember when) and took the 99$ upgrade to P4. E

I was researching and working in my 3D engine, I heard about Poser but I never was interested in people, so ignored it and continue my work. One day I was looking for a mesh of the Galactica's Cylon base ship, it was a difficult mesh to be found and at least I found it in a German site, it was a LWO version. I downloaded it and looked into the links section, there were many links to Poser stuff, nothing interesting for me, and I found a link that caught my atention: Renderotica, opps, Render + Erotica, it must be interesting! This way all started, soon I discovered for my surprise (I never studied and did nothing with art) that I was good!

Been so long, I think I forgot the date? It was in the 1900's, sometime....Have never looked back. Sharen

Been so long, I think I forgot the date? It was in the 1900's, sometime....Have never looked back. Sharen

Way back when, I saw an ad for Poser 1 in a computer magazine and I have been hooked ever since. I have P5 now and I HAVE to play with P5 every day or I start having withdrawals.....

I needed someway of creating people to put in my software as I could only afford an artist for contract work. By the time I'd got some idea of how to use the program and upgraded from 4 to 5 and now 6. I wish that I'd had broadband back then and had found Renderosity. There is so much info, help and, of course, Dr. Geep PhD whose knowledge knows no bounds.

Not long after buying a Mac clone in September of '97, someone at work asked if I could prepare some radiography illustrations for a student manual. I had bought a software package that included Ray Dream Designer, Poser 2 and Painter 5 (I still have the paint can it came in and somewhere the glossy catalog from Fractal Design). The project is long finished, the Mac clone gone but I still tinker with Poser.

Try THIS and enjoy.

cheers,
dr geep
;=] Edited to remove all: None, Nudity, Violence, Both, NNSGIATWOAB, TOS violations, dirty jokes, xposts, and all TOP SECRET information.

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In 1998 I was picking up reseller licenses for graphic, video, and audio programs for bundling in systems and support deals I was selling. Used it to create a series of simple images for advertising, graduated to animations for web and tv, then to training videos for retail stores. All of that aside (that was all for show -- it gave me the excuses I needed), the real reason I picked up poser was previsualization work for story telling. Every character I've created over the last several years has been set out in Poser so I'd have a consistent reference and could check interactions to be sure what I was describing would be possible. When I sold the computer company in 2001, I used the money to invest heavily in my new hobby's toys and tweaks -- most of it a waste of said funds -- buying high end stuff. the poser communites right now sorta remind of where RPG stuff was circa 1981 - 1982.

I wanted to make CGi art, so I asked about for a good CGI program and someone recommended Bryce. Afterwards I found about Poser via an email group for Bryce users. That was when Bryce 3 and Poser 3 were the latest models out.

I was in the process of trying to create a female human Microsoft Agent Character and kept hearing about this thing called "Poser"... so I started looking around. I found Poser 2 at Fry's, instantly bought it, ran home, installed the program and proceeded to accomplish absolutely nothing... I'm thinking to myself.. WTF are these people that keep talking about Poser for real. If I remember right, this was some where back in early 1998. Not long after I got Poser 2, I found out that Poser 3 was coming out.... Found it at a CompUsa... Think I paid like close to $300 for it... did the same as with Poser 2.. rushed home, installed it.. and couldn't do a damn thing with it.. Then fate intervened and I found the internet which lead me to the good ole Poser Forum... started reading messages, finally figured out how to do something, found a bunch of freebies and I was off the races with my character... 2 months later I had a female human Microsoft Agent Character called "Babe". Boy was I proud of myself:-) The problem was the infection that is Poser has set in. I was told by many people more knowing than me that there was no cure and I was doomed to a life of having no life:) They were right!

I saw a really kule posercomic way back and thought "this could really save time. I wouldn't have to draw every panel. I could make complete comics in matter of days" I was horribly wrong ofcourse. Didn't understand anything about 3d back then...Still don't. :P About the only thing I learned is that it takes a loooong time to make anything in Poser. I was better of with my pencils really. But damn Poser is so addictive and fun :D

I was working in a software store in NJ ...some guy came in to demonstrate this 'new figure creation' program to help artists draw people ... I bought poser 1 within a week of it hitting the shelves and well .. I'vew been cursing at various incarnations of the dratted thing ever since :)

I bought Poser 1 when it first came out to help me learn to draw the human figure. I still can't draw a recognizable human but I've bought every version of Poser that's come out and, like Lyrra, I've been cursing at all of them. Still, I love it and will persist with this expensive and frustrating hobby for as long as I can.

• was playing The SIMs - wrote a program to modify the meshes (BodyWarp) - created a line of Uber-gals (big boobs, I'm a guy, what can I say) - was scouring the net to find other examples of Uber meshes when... - ...I discovered Poser. - now I get to play with 'hi-res' nekid chicks - life is good ;).