Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: The FINAL Jazz Singer

picnic opened this issue on Aug 30, 1999 ยท 4 posts


fauve posted Mon, 30 August 1999 at 9:40 PM

Amazing... the piano guy actually looks like a real person, not a Poser Mr. PotatoHead! Nice reflectivity on the piano as well, and the singer looks great (especially her hair.) The top she's wearing is cute, too... :-> I like her expression and her lively pose -- lots of personality. The textures are very good. But I see what you mean about the lighting... the only drawback to the picture is that flat unshadowed light. A vignetted sort of light would give the image more atmosphere. Have you tried using the One-Sided Square prop in Poser as a lighting reflector/baffle? This is one of my favorite tricks for adjusting Poser lighting. After moving and coloring your lights to roughly what you want, you create one or more One-Sided Squares. Leave the square colored white, move it just up out of camera range (into what would be, in theatre parlance, the "flies") and then mess with the position, angle and transparency settings to have the square either divert light where you want it to go (on the singer, off the piano), or use transparency maps on the squares to direct and shape the shadows. To keep the squares themselves from casting their own square shadows, you can turn off the "Cast Shadow" checkbox under Object Properties. (This doesn't affect their reflectivity.) I like your whole "Jazz Singer" series. -Nemo