Cyllan for sure, her landscape products (Terraformers series, Horizons, Weird Weather, Geoforge) are very innovative and changed the way I used poser a lot. I always depended on outside apps line Bryce and Vue to do my landscaping, but with Cyllan's prducts we can do it right within Poser now.

Revision 29th May 07
In appreciation - honourable mentions of some great  user-contributors to Poser's  continuing evolution into a terrific program.

Acadia -  for always sharing her  wealth of Poser related links and her helpfulness
AdoranaDE - dynamic hair.
Ajax - (EasyPose)
andi3d -  for all his great bones
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.
Arduino - highly appreciated for providing the genital bits for the chaste Millenium and Unimesh figures
As Shanim/Siliphiel -
Bagginsbill - for sharing his Matmatic and taking shaders    to new levels
lesbentley- a great many  Poser tech contributions and ever helpful
B.L. Render (Bloodsong).  "Secrets of figure creation for Poser"  is an indispensable asset for those who wish to create content for Poser.
JeffH - Poser4: Solved the Poser code syntax that allows for Changing Geometry Dials to be applied to any part of a figure.
Baron Vlad Harkonnen (BVH)
Jim Burton - for lots of (especially low poly) freebies for many years now
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!
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.
DeeCey  - for her "Practical Poser" books.
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.
Colm
Steve Cooper -(Kupa)
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.
Dimension3D
Dodger
Dr. Geep - for his unique classroom style who has  newbies grinning  while climbing that painful learning curve
colin g
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.
face_off - Poser5/6: Pioneered advancements in node based photorealistic Poser skin rendering and he has been so helpful in the forums.
Dan Farr - formerly of Zygote
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.
 Anthony Hernandez - 2002: employee of Curious Labs, gathered, compliled and released the CR2 guide from interal and community information.
DPHoadley  - for remapping Posette and Dork to take V3 textures.
hokusai
ISOP
JKeller - pre 1999 Created Jacketman. Earliest example of cr2 embedded clothing. Pre dates conforming clothes
kirwyn.- His/her dynamic hair solutions are innovative and a great asset to animators.
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
 jack k - Poser Forum owner before it became Renderosity
 jaager - prolific morph'n stuff contributor- among which are anatomically correct  hip/genital
 Kim99 for his brilliant CR2Builder program, which is not only the best damn Poser file editor around, it's absolutely free.
 Lab 108
 Michael Lane - Poser4: Innovated first Global Illumination to Poser using Poser4 lights in a dome effect.
 Tim Laubauch - Pre 2000: Site Happy World Land was a huge resource for Posette photo based textures
 legume- originated the Poser forum on usenet and 2002: Starting the Magic Pink Pony & Mr. Fluffers anto-Poser hot 20 pardody.
 Levius - photo source for a lot of textures
LittleDragon
John Malis - for his Armor textures
Mapps - so generous with his great freebies, models and textures
Patrick Martin - of the Papa Sage Fame
Masa - innovative utilities such as PAE
Maveris
maxxxmodels - great helpfulness
maya - creator of free Maya Doll and lots of freebies
maz -  for his objaction mover program  This encryption/decription program was a breakthrough in allowing figure modifications to be distributed without infringing copyright.
Moebius
Nerd
nitrane
Ockham - for great python scripts automating a great many Poser functions- all for free
opera guy - enlightening discussions
Panko -  for weapons and skin textures
PhilC - tutorials and great add-ons like Wardrobe Wizard etc
Pitklad for NEAena, Neja, and Domus.
nruddock - for  invaluable Poser tech contributions.
Sams3D - generosity with superb freebies and tutes
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.
Steve Shanks- generous contributor of quality freebies
Schlabber...he is the posing genius and has helped pretty much everyone in their posing endeavors.
sharkey
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
stewer - one of the most informative and enlightening helpers
Stonemason - superb product innovation
svdl - quality free creations and always helpful
Sydd - 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 coplex layered texture/transmapping effects to Poser that changed forever the way Poser clothes were textured.
Don Tatro - created and shared the iconic Creepy the Clown
3dsk - Acclaimed photo reference store design catering to 3d artists. Most widely used photo reference site used in Poserdom.
Thorne - oldendays calendar faerie freebies, inspiration, beautiful faces and figures
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
Traveler - great contributor of quality freebies  and tutorials for using the morph magnets etc
Trekkiegrrrl - freebies galore
tromnek (Poser RPC scripts)
Virus - Admin for The Prop's Guild, one of Posers frst mega content sites. All content was free.
VK - I wouldn't be surprised if the Poser 7 dependent parameters are an evolution of his work with complex master/slave dial relationships.
Judith Ward for what she has done with bontanicals over all these many years.
Larry Weinberg - Inventor/ designer of Poser
Robert Whisenant was the one who really went in and made sense of all the ERC/JCM/etc.
willow - originator of the Poser Forum which became Renderosity
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,
Yarp - for free 3PDO which makes Poser file navigation so much easier.

Hey thanks.

DeeCey is actually just spelled : Deecey.  Her name is Denise Tyler. Though there have been many books over the years, Bloodsong's book being the best and most accurate technical book, this one by deecey was the first really comprehensive book suitable as an alternative Poser manual.

Lyne's Creations of Vista Internet Products: For pinoeering extensive long term development of Poser animal figures.
http://www.vistainternetproducts.com/lyne1.htm

I made a typo on legume. Should say...
legume- originated the Poser forum on usenet and 2002: Starting the Magic Pink Pony & Mr. Fluffers anti-Poser hot 20 parody.**
Olivier-**innovating a comprehensive node based material system for illustration style rendering.
http://www.runtimedna.com/news.php?viewStory=940

Together Merrilyn Ellison(D'Mentia) and myself created Subdividing Material Poses,(though I am not sure people use them or even know what they are anymore).

**Kimilche(Cindy)-**Innovating universal pose conversion for humans and animals orogially with Puppetmaster.

face_off (Keith)- Adding gravity capabilities in Poser by creating PoserPhysics
http://store.e-frontier.com/us/user/poserphysics_plug_in_for_poser_6_product_24650

There is a lot to remember. So many people over the years. And the mind is a fragile thing. As I remember, find stuff I'll post back.

And there are fun little commercial facts like 3DCommune having the first html newsletter (which inspired Daz's ebing I was there when they said "why don't we have that?") we all get and expect from all sites today. And that BBay had the first "view other products"/"associated products" options. Just interesting store trivia which is it's own category of history.

A couple more:

Gerald Dey - for good quality freebies
x2000 - for really cool space freebies
Morris, Vali and Gwendelyn - for stunning textures and characters
Pretty3D - for making V3 ultrasexy! also, great clothing!

@Masha, for those you've already listed:

As Shanim - at least for his(?) cool Gothic Dungeons and the MyShirts
Nerd3d - for the V3 walk designer addons
BVH - for some killer outfits and his tutorials on putting poser characters into MSAgent

Thanks a bunch  guys!!!    A  wealth of history Anton :)    Revision  upcoming soon.

Cheers,
Masha

If you guys are serious about wanting to do this... why not someone 1) register a domain name for the "Poser Hall of Fame" and start a site designed to hold the list (and the nominees) and 2) put together a group [prefferably of people not on the nominees list] to vote on new additions and 3) set up a form where people can send in nominations anonymously? There's lots of talented web designers in the community, lots of people with hosting space, and lots of people who'd be good at sorting out nominees. Do it right, not just a thread in a forum that'll be buried 40 pages deep in a few weeks and forgotten. ;]

Wonder if eFrontier would put a section on their site?

nerd3D ... also the first to introduce a Poser backdrop tool..the forerunner of quite a few more by DAZ, and RDNA.

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:

Larry Weinberg - Inventor/ designer of Poser
Steve Cooper -(Kupa)
Dan Farr - formerly of Zygote

Communities:

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:

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/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):

Colm (can fall into several different areas)

Dodger (can fall into several different areas)

colin g

hokusai

ISOP

Lab 108

LittleDragon

Maveris

Moebius

Nerd

nitrane

sharkey

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:
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Larry Weinberg - Inventor/ designer of Poser

Steve Cooper -(Kupa)

Dan Farr - formerly of Zygote

COMMUNITIES:
---------------------

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:

**

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):
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Colm

Dodger

colin g

hokusai

ISOP

Lab 108

LittleDragon

Maveris

Moebius

Nerd

nitrane

sharkey

Good work Deecey.:) I also thought it should be sorted into categories once the list was near complete and definitions of these valuable contributors' main body of work  had been distilled. I have added the latest nominations to today's revision of the list but won't post it now as it's better placed into the categorized one.  May I leave any further additions in your  capable hands now with my offer of assistance should it be needed? 

I also think Ironbear's suggestions should be discussed,  to preserve this list and permanently honour these contributors who have benefitted us so much and ultimately  added value to the Poser we now have.

I am so glad so many people  chose to remember and decided to nominate to this show of appreciation. And I'd say to those people who could be inadvertantly missed and  feel they have made notable contributions which they have shared but who are too modest to come forward publicly that they should pm the list keeper for inclusion.

It's late here in Oz so I'm off to bed, but look forward to tomorrows additions. :)

Cheers to you all,
Masha

(Edited by Masha for late night boo-boos)

LOL Feel free to continue, Masha ... I didn't mean to overstep my bounds there and that wasn't my intention. As I was going through the list on my own to see if I could think of any others, or to add to the list, I thought it might help refresh my memory to start thinking of people in terms of different skills or categories. Then I thought it might help others remember people if they saw the list in the same way.

One thing I did learn in the process is how little I actually remember about the history of Poser, and how little I knew about where and when things originated! Anton's additions have been invaluable, as have those of other "old timers" that have popped into the thread.

We can take turns with the updates if it's help you're looking for. 8-)

I actually thought of another category that might fit, though I don't know how popular it would be ... LMAO

OK. When battles and wars are raging in the forum, things can get pretty heated and ugly. During these discussions a lot of things surface that are usually based on rumors or whatnot.

There are a handful of people that show up in these threads that are brave enough to call BS! when things get hot and heavy.  Whether you love 'em or you hate 'em, whether you agree or disagree with them, their presence in a thread is usually a good indication that things are getting out of hand and out of control ... and to that end they serve a purpose in this community as well.

So, under the "Reality Check" category, I nominate Spiritbro, Ironbear, and Penguinisto.

;-)

Quote - If you guys are serious about wanting to do this... why not someone 1) register a domain name for the "Poser Hall of Fame" and start a site designed to hold the list (and the nominees) and 2) put together a group [prefferably of people not on the nominees list] to vote on new additions and 3) set up a form where people can send in nominations anonymously? There's lots of talented web designers in the community, lots of people with hosting space, and lots of people who'd be good at sorting out nominees. Do it right, not just a thread in a forum that'll be buried 40 pages deep in a few weeks and forgotten. ;]

I agree, take a group of community members that have been around long enough to know whats up and have them look over nominations, narrow it down then vote in a certain number each year. Maybe 5 or 6 each year make it in. I like that.

Aw come on Spiritbro, you just heard your ears ringing from the last post ... ;-)

I think it's a cool idea as well. Being that the Poser community was in full swing by the time I got here there's a lot of REALLY early stuff I don't know at all, and I suspect the majority of us aren't aware of a lot of the history behind Poser and content development. Something like this would be a great resource!

Quote - Aw come on Spiritbro, you just heard your ears ringing from the last post ... ;-)

I think it's a cool idea as well. Being that the Poser community was in full swing by the time I got here there's a lot of REALLY early stuff I don't know at all, and I suspect the majority of us aren't aware of a lot of the history behind Poser and content development. Something like this would be a great resource!

Actually, I didnt even see that lol. And while I thank you, there are PLENTY of others more deserving than I in that catagory and have been around a lot longer too. :) IB, Legume,PJF back in the day was good at it. Hell if I made a list it would be longer than the HOF list lol.

Ya know, I think something like this would go a long way in helping to restore some of the "community" feeling that we have long since lost.

Quote - Ya know, I think something like this would go a long way in helping to restore some of the "community" feeling that we have long since lost.

That would be nice, but I don't know. Things have changed so much over the years I 'm not sure that feeling can ever be restored. It's all about money now. Not fun, Not learning the different programs. Oh sure, some out there are still about that, but to a very large extent the Poserverse is based on the marketplace now. I do think it would be nice to remember those that DID put effort into furthering the community, So many have done so much out of those feelings of community back in the day.

I will gladly host it at a Domain... I will even get the Domain Name and Register it... (I would also accept Volunteers to help set up the Site.) I have some Sites available to me that are currently unused.

I suggest two fold approach.. Digital Art Hall of Fame and something like Nviatwas as the name for an Annual Award! We could have a Competition for designing the Statue each year.... Make them require a Gold Texture! LOL

I am good canidate for this, since I am not likely to be nominated for anything anytime in my Life!

AWESOME!!! 

I am good canidate for this, since I am not likely to be nominated for anything anytime in my Life!

Say what? How about the cutest icon in the world award?

Quote - AWESOME!!! 

I am good canidate for this, since I am not likely to be nominated for anything anytime in my Life!

Say what? How about the cutest icon in the world award?

We are talking about real contributions.... lol!

I thought of a name, but have not checked the Domain availablity... should be a .org... regardless

phof.org?  That way there wouldn't be anyone coming to the site thinking that it's something like the "Darwin Awards" or the "Biggest Dufus in the Universe" award. LMAO

And, don't worry ... we see how much you help folks around these parts. ;-)

@ Deecey
In no way are you overstepping any lines, indeed I asked for help so this could evolve into more than just a haphazard and  buried thread.

    Quote: " We can take turns with the updates if it's help you're looking for. 8-)"
   
I feel that less mistakes would be made if one person was in charge of additions, with input from others who might notice an omission.  And I nominate you Deecey, if you are  happy to do it.  You are a well-respected and trusted member here and a wordsmith whereas I,  with my sometimes British (where I learnt English) sometimes American (where I worked for a number of years) with a sprinkling of good old Aussie (which has become home) expressions,  might confuse more.

    As to Qote snippets: " I actually thought of another category that might fit..."  "So, under the "Reality Check" category, I nominate Spiritbro, Ironbear, and Penguinisto."
   
I have a feeling it might be a contentious issue whether such nominations do not serve an agenda of sorts, whether the nominees
(not necessarily the above ones :) might not be considered the provocateurs of such hot and heavy debates rather than the voice of reason at times.  Just my thoughts :)

At any rate, should you chose to accept this mission (heh), I'll update this new categorized list to this point, then gladly place it in your hands, ok?

Cheers,
Masha

@ ratscloset

Fantastic offer which is gladly accepted and could go ahead I'm sure.  As to the name it's of course up to discussion, but I'm in favour of the full  "Poser Hall of Fame" myself, so it would be clear to new and old what exactly it's about.  Acronyms tend to boggle my mind :)

What say you all?

Also once the site is up, other Poser sites could be enticed to provide links to it  for the edification of their members.

Cheers,
Masha

Names are trickling in more slowly now, but ratscloset is now investigating the possibility of creating a separate site where people can submit nominations in real time (and won't that be a cool thing!). I wonder if it might be best just to let names continue to trickle in here, update not quite as often, and then turn it over to whatever committee is chosen for the official Poser Hall of Fame web site. I can probably handle that much, at least. 8-)

I think we should have a "design the award certificate", "design the virtual award statue" and a "design the Golden NVIATWAS" award contest too! LMAO

A fun idea for sure, but perhaps too complicated and prone to pagentry. Once you add voting, nominating and such it becomes political, which never has done well in the community.

Finding impartial people, without store, site, software, or product affliliation/interest is going to be next to impossible.

I would rather see something purely historical, which is less  vulnerable to politics or special interest/popularity games. A accurate  poser history site really needs to happen before too much is lost or forgotten. And history free of censorship.

Just a thought.

Wonderful Deecey and Ratscloset.  We're on our way then.

So what would be the best way to elect a committee? Suggestions?  (Isn't committee a necessary evil really :p Especially nowdays.)

Perhaps a statue of sorts should head the site as a symbol rather than being awarded to singular individuals. It would be taken for granted that each contributor named is the recepient of one.  A contest for its design and especially the Golden NVIATWAS would be fun. :)  I can already see some outrageous submissions frankly :)

It occurs to me that seeing as it would have its own site we might also add a category for Outstanding Poser Artistry with links to the Gallery or render  mentioned.  How to avoid the usual pitfalls here is the big question. 

Ian Porter already mentioned:
    "Also Paul Hafeli was well known for outstanding realistic renders back in the early days of the Poserforum online .  Those were really inspirational works."
And from: NW316
    "How about MrX, almost without a doubt the most widely viewed Poser artist of all time.  :)"

Neither of which I knew what to do with yet.

We could easily nominate: fygomatic for his exceptional look-alikes for instance, etc etc.

the "statue" should be Dork ... he's the first Poser guy that really hit it bigtime. Poser 1 man is a bit too undefined.

I'm with Anton on this one.

I'd much rather see an accurate and detailed timeline than an arbitrary top fifty :).

I haven't been a part of this community for all that long and am always amazed at just how 'colourful' a histroy it has had.

Yes, it is the history that is important, not a popularity contest...and that is what it will become..its already starting to feel that way a bit.

Dr. Geep has some history on his site...
Also, wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poser

and of course, Larry  Weinberg's history   http://www.larryweinberg.com/gallery2/v/PoserHistory/

Anorther idea is to interview Dan Farr...I'm sure he has a lot to say about the history of Poser.

Anthony Hernandez had quite a bit of knowledge about the past Poser community. He may be a big help.

Hall of fame entries should also go to the different groups...and stores
PFO
Runtime DNA ... just tons of early great stuff going on here
The ORIGINAL POSER EMAIL list..which is still active at Yahoo..this was before PFO . http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/poser-new/  this has lost most of its zing. This list was originally huge, with all the Poser gurus in attendance.

Another group that gets little publicity is Poser 101 at Yahoo
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Poser101/

its been around since 2000, and has helped a tremendous amount of Poser users get started, including a lot of folks that are vendors and respected artists in the community now. I can't remember who the creator of the list was, but i was the moderator of that list myself for quite awhile and helped rekindle it after it was headed for oblivion because the owner wasn't active ...

I'd much rather see an accurate and detailed timeline than an arbitrary top fifty :).

Yes, good point. On that end I can't help a lot on the early stuff so I'm wondering if it might be best to elect someone who is more aware of the important developments as they occurred ... the list that Masha has compiled is a great start, but I have to confess that I won't be able to dig in and do a lot of research right now to add dates and more detailed info.

With that said, if someone else with first-hand knowledge can organize and date the info it might be better and more accurate that way.

How about 

nviatwas.org

It is sort of fitting!

What about the Pink Pony Award. lol SOunds like the Tony Award. Or "The "Woody". That woodend manikin thing in the library. :)  "Got Wood?"

In the end history and acknlowledgement can both be done if people were willing. And they compliment each other and give reference. And would provide backstory.

Or "The "Woody". That woodend manikin thing in the library. :)  "Got Wood?"

LMAO!!!!!  I like that one (snicker)

Since perspectives on history can change like all history over time, comparing feedback from multiple people with reference if possible, would help. Past moderators, now spread across multiple sites, tend to remember a lot because they read so much.

Store histories are important to have too since they are integral

Dave,

The search engines within the site forums are really handy. And I must say it it really fun to re-read the early years, though Rendo is missing the first 5 months or so of it's own posts. Not sure why. Only goes back to March of 1999. Should be earlier than that.

**all available:

**pinkponyawards.com
pinkponyawards.org
pinkponyawards.info
pinkponyawards.net
**pinkponyawards.biz

****Also available (but OMG what traffic it would draw! .com was taken, wonder what kind of site it is. LOL):

woodyawards.org**
woodyawards.info
woodyawards.net
woodyawards.biz
**

**

What about the folks from the comic book side of poserdom?
Phil Hokusai (the great Cara Loft file that everybody used for years?)
RIchard Kane (the muscular dork enhancements that set new standards)

Anton Mentioned George Deep - sheesh that guy made the 3d Comic Collective - one of the most hit poser sites in the old days!

Gerry - who made the great poser hero gloves and boots, among others used by thousands of artist?
Aremis
Fasttraxx
Hasdrubal
Sharby
Daniel Scott Murray - Talk about pusing poser past the envelope in art!
Brian Haberlin also has been doing things with poser that's just unheard of in comics.
bbarrett

These guys were cutting edge back in the late 90's - they showed the rest of Poserdom that YES you can make your own comic books with Poser!

sorry - it's probaby too niched though huh?

Not at all, it's a VERY valid part of the Poser community and history and should definitely be mentioned!

oh wow. Fasttraxx. I forgot. Yeah he had that great site.  Memories come back highschool spanish. :)

I like the Woody better... kind of pokes fun at the misconception about Poser and Porn connection in a tongue in cheek sort of way!

For Domains...

PoserArtLegends... or Pals for short!

Come on then folks lets give ratscloset a name for the site so he can go ahead and provide a repositry for all the info.
So far we have nviatwas.org; phof.org and poserhalloffame.org

We can then go ahead and plunk  all researched info on the History of the Poser Community there.  Then there needs to be a co-ordinator of said research perhaps -  so several people don't waste their time in doubling up on the same sources.  There needs to be volunteers to do said research and finally the thoroughly knowledgable individuals to compile same accurately and  with a discerning eye.  It would seem important not  to allow any bias creep into plain facts.

Anton and Dave-So  seems to be a funt of knowledge on history and the way to go about gathering the info.  Wonder if one or both of you would care to co-ordinate and compile this aspect?

As to the symbolic award statuette, The Woodie  wins my vote ;)

Ooops , add ratsclosets latest: PoserArtLegends or pals.com for domain names.

More suggestions or handsup please?

Aand: **pinkponyawards.com
and   ** woodyawards.org

Categorized revision 31May 07
Without the latest names submitted for  the comic book side of poserdom?  Over to you Deecey? Hugs :)

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

PROGRAM AND ORIGINAL CONTENT DEVELOPERS:

Larry Weinberg - Inventor/ designer of Poser

Steve Cooper -(Kupa)

Dan Farr - formerly of Zygote

COMMUNITIES:

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 antI-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:

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. With D'Mentia created Subdividing Material Poses

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.  Adding gravity capabilities in Poser by creating PoserPhysics

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.

Kamilche(Cindy)-Innovating universal pose conversion for humans and animals originally with Puppetmaster.

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.

Lyne's Creations -  For pinoeering extensive long term development of Poser animal figures.

Olivier-innovating a comprehensive node based material system for illustration style rendering.

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 - 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.

Nerd3d - for the V3 walk designer addons and many freebies over the years

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) - for  his tutorials on putting poser characters into MSAgent  and some killer outfits

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.

Gerald Day - for good quality freebies

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

ISOP - some wonderful freebies

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/genitals

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.

x2000 - for really cool space freebies

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

Colm

Dodger

colin g

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

[Masha's question:where should we put this? afaik  there have been other such products perhaps they all should be mentioned and which was the ground-breaking one?)

hokusai

Lab 108

LittleDragon

Maveris

Moebius

nitrane

sharkey

Either of Ratscloset's names is cool. I wonder if  "Poserdom" is taken. 

I'll help anyway needed. More people the better though.

I'll help as well. I've always been interested in the history of Poser. A lot of the early stuff gets kind of hazy, however :)

There is a site that has old web pages...its called the way back machine , or some such...it has some of the early Rendo pages...can't remember if it had PFO. I'll check there after work..or maybe someone has the link and can gather info there.

http://www.archive.org/index.php

Attached Link: http://www.cnn.com/interactive/entertainment/0705/gallery.lego.art/frameset.exclude.html

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/entertainment/0705/gallery.lego.art/frameset.exclude.html

Poser lego people. lol. One step forward, two steps back. :)

lol. this one is funny. Before all the gizmos
http://web.archive.org/web/19991127182951/http://www.renderosity.com/
I forgot there was an Adult section. Some of the links still work. :)