Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: OT: so why do you do it?

replicand opened this issue on Jun 13, 2008 ยท 31 posts


EnglishBob posted Tue, 17 June 2008 at 3:37 AM

Back at the beginning of the nineties I needed artwork for a CD cover, and I thought some of that new-fangled 3D stuff might look cool. Maybe some reflecting spheres over a chequerboard, something like that. :) So I downloaded POV-Ray from the You Can Call Me Ray BBS in Chicago, since the Internet hadn't been invented yet (don't write in, I'm exaggerating for humourous effect, okay?). One overnight render on my work 486/DX66 later, I gave up music and took up computer graphics instead. (Still exaggerating - but the CD was dropped by the record company, so I didn't feel like doing any more music just then.) See those little people standing around the base of the letters? They were made from primitives. I can draw - a bit - but getting human proportions correct was always hard for me, so what I really needed was a computer program that would take the place of the artist's lay figure. It could be called, say, Poser... The rest, as they say, is history.