I thought it might help to start arranging these in groups. I had a hard time trying to classify some of these (especially in deciding between content and innovations ....) so if someone feels that it's more appropriate to put some folks in the Innovators category speak up.

Anyway, this list includes the people that are listed in the May 29 version a few posts back, and doesn't include the additional ones added in posts after that.

Revision 29th May 07:  Categorized

In appreciation - honourable mentions of some great  user-contributors to Poser's  continuing evolution into a terrific program.

PROGRAM AND ORIGINAL CONTENT DEVELOPERS:
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Larry Weinberg - Inventor/ designer of Poser

Steve Cooper -(Kupa)

Dan Farr - formerly of Zygote

COMMUNITIES:
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Ian Grey was co-admin of the Poserforum with Willow DaNaan. This was back when Poserforum was the first and only forum available for poser users.

jack k - Poser Forum owner before it became Renderosity

legume- originated the Poser forum on usenet and 2002: Starting the Magic Pink Pony & Mr. Fluffers anto-Poser hot 20 parody.

Virus - Admin for The Prop's Guild, one of Posers first mega content sites. All content was free.

willow - originator of the Poser Forum which became Renderosity

**INNOVATIONS:

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Anton - who has not only been an excellent content provider over the years but has designed and finally given away for free his brilliant Apollo figure and all contents.  His support has been/is exceptional too. (Anton can actually fall in several different categories … I think he’s best defined as an innovator)

Bagginsbill - for sharing his Matmatic and taking shaders    to new levels

lesbentley- a great many  Poser tech contributions and ever helpful

JeffH - Poser4: Solved the Poser code syntax that allows for Changing Geometry Dials to be applied to any part of a figure.

Bushi - he did a lot of great development work and was always very helpful in these forums.

Capsces - Poser3: Among the earliest pioneers in transforming animals through what later would become Full Body morphs and for adding so much more to all the poser figures with her great morph sets!

Chris Derochie - started The Forge/PoseAmation back in the late 90s and has been instrumental in a lot of the early Poser animation and is still actively doing BVH work.
face_off - Poser5/6: Pioneered advancements in node based photorealistic Poser skin rendering and he has been so helpful in the forums.

Catharina Przezak/Harders -( digital woman)- Pre 2000: One of the first and earliest photo realistic figure texturists upon which other later artists based their work. Predates most texturists  and she always tried to share her knowledge in the forums.

Hellborn - was the first to make an anatomically correct genital hip for a female figure.  His WWG (Woman With Genitals) was the P3 Posette with his specialized hip hard welded into the mesh.

JKeller - pre 1999 Created Jacketman. Earliest example of cr2 embedded clothing. Pre dates conforming clothes

Kozaburo - (with Yamato) introduced the concept to Poser of realistic transmapped hair, eyelashes, etc to the community. Earliest designers of hand painted realistic hair textures with baked-in highlights, a lot of which are still available for free

Michael Lane - Poser4: Innovated first Global Illumination to Poser using Poser4 lights in a dome effect.

SanctumArt (Michael Rak) for being a true innovator and master for sci-fi, both in Poser and abroad in other mediums. And one of the best modellers around anywhere; ever.Schlabber...he is the posing genius and has helped pretty much everyone in their posing endeavors.

Sixus1-  for getting 1 complete model out a week for 3 years for the CP freebie while doing other contract work and for having a hand in a lot of the content for Poser 7.

snowsultan - Standardized the design approach for color coded UV mapping templates based on color blocking seam-line polygons.

Stahlratte for GIRL 3, Wiktorija, and Valerie

SteffyZ - pioneer in hyper-realistic textures

Stonemason - superb product innovation

Syyd (two y’s, not two d’s) - who showed what could be accomplished with photo references for creating hyper-realist textures.

Symphony- Merilyn Ellison (D'Mentia) and Moyra (Ellusion) for their introduction of complex layered texture/transmapping effects to Poser that changed forever the way Poser clothes were textured.

Torino - Invented the first Eve.  He pioneered the Hip/Buttock/Thigh configuration, and the Inverted T chest with the breast in the Collar groups- came up with the so-called "millenium"-style rigging of characters

VK - I wouldn't be surprised if the Poser 7 dependent parameters are an evolution of his work with complex master/slave dial relationships.

Robert Whisenant was the one who really went in and made sense of all the ERC/JCM/etc.

Wyrmmaster - for fathering what magnets could be used for with figures and clothes.

yamato -(with Kozaburo)  introduced the concept to Poser of realistic transmapped hair, eyelashes, etc to the community. Earliest designers of hand painted realistic hair textures with baked-in highlights. Some fantastic figures and innovative utilities,

TOOLS AND UTILITIES:

Steve Cox -  pre 1999 creator of UV Mapper, the most widely used UV mapping app for Poser content allowing for advanced UV mapping prior to tools like Deep UV.

Dimension3D

Kim99 for his brilliant CR2Builder program, which is not only the best damn Poser file editor around, it's absolutely free.

Masa - innovative utilities such as PAE

maz -  for his objaction mover program  This encryption/decription program was a breakthrough in allowing figure modifications to be distributed without infringing copyright.

Ockham - for great python scripts automating a great many Poser functions- all for free

PhilC - tutorials and great add-ons like Wardrobe Wizard etc (yet another one that can be put into so many different categories)

tromnek (Poser RPC scripts)

Yarp - for free 3PDO which makes Poser file navigation so much easier.

TEACHING AND ASSISTING OTHERS:

Acadia -  for always sharing her  wealth of Poser related links and her helpfulness

B.L. Render (Bloodsong).  "Secrets of figure creation for Poser"  is an indispensable asset for those who wish to create content for Poser.

Deecey  - for her "Practical Poser" books.

Dr. Geep - for his unique classroom style who has  newbies grinning  while climbing that painful learning curve

Anthony Hernandez - 2002: employee of Curious Labs, gathered, compliled and released the CR2 guide from interal and community information.

maxxxmodels - great helpfulness

opera guy - enlightening discussions

nruddock - for  invaluable Poser tech contributions.

Stewer - one of the most informative and enlightening helpers

NOTABLE CONTENT AND FREEBIE CREATORS:

3dsk, aka Levius - Acclaimed photo reference store design catering to 3d artists. Most widely used photo reference site used in Poserdom.

AdoranaDE - dynamic hair.

Ajax - (EasyPose)

andi3d -  for all his great bones

Arduino - highly appreciated for providing the genital bits for the chaste Millenium and Unimesh figures

As Shanim/Siliphiel -

Baron Vlad Harkonnen (BVH)

Jim Burton - for lots of (especially low poly) freebies for many years now

Cyllan - her landscape products (Terraformers series, Horizons, Weird Weather, Geoforge) are very innovative - always dependant on outside apps line Bryce and Vue to do landscaping, but with Cyllan's prducts we can do it right within Poser now.

DPHoadley  - for remapping Posette and Dork to take V3 textures.

kirwyn.- His/her dynamic hair solutions are innovative and a great asset to animators.

jaager - prolific morph'n stuff contributor- among which are anatomically correct  hip/genital

Tim Laubauch - Pre 2000: Site Happy World Land was a huge resource for Posette photo based textures

John Malis - for his Armor textures

Mapps - so generous with his great freebies, models and textures

Patrick Martin - of the Papa Sage Fame

maya - creator of free Maya Doll and lots of freebies

Panko -  for weapons and skin textures

Pitklad for NEAena, Neja, and Domus.

Sams3D - generosity with superb freebies and tutes

Steve Shanks- generous contributor of quality freebies

svdl - quality free creations and always helpful

Don Tatro - created and shared the iconic Creepy the Clown

Thorne - oldendays calendar faerie freebies, inspiration, beautiful faces and figures

Traveler - great contributor of quality freebies  and tutorials for using the morph magnets etc

Trekkiegrrrl - freebies galore

Judith Ward for what she has done with bontanicals over all these many years.

UNCATEGORIZED AS OF YET (and many of these can fall in different areas):
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Colm

Dodger

colin g

hokusai

ISOP

Lab 108

LittleDragon

Maveris

Moebius

Nerd

nitrane

sharkey