masha opened this issue on May 25, 2007 · 157 posts
masha posted Fri, 01 June 2007 at 1:10 AM
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.
Larry Weinberg - Inventor/ designer of Poser
Steve Cooper -(Kupa)
Dan Farr - formerly of Zygote
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
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,
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.
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
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
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