Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: How Do Some Poser Artists Get The "X" Factor???

PaganWarrior opened this issue on Feb 15, 2009 · 59 posts


Lillaanya posted Sun, 15 February 2009 at 3:49 PM

Quote - Do search in the galleries (search by artust) on the names he gives in and you'll know what he's refering too. I personally don't care for their style and for me the characters don't come to life at all in those images, I do find there's something missing. They're not telling me a story at all. For me they're dead, they don't speak to me, they don't tell me anything, they're just standing they're looking into an empty space with empty eyes. They look a lot these young teen models you see in magazines, looking empty.

But if that's what your looking for the answer to your question is very simple and one word..... postwork. Learn to photoshop. Seriously, you need to learn to use photoshop to accomplish these kind of images. They've got very little to do with Poser. The main character was rendered in Poser, the rest has been done in Poser. If you study some of these images closely, you will notice that some the hair and clothes handdrawn in photoshop.

All you need for this is a very basis skill in Poser. You need to know how to pose a nude character, give it a body texture, at times know how to add some basic hair and perhaps some clothes, a light here and there (but not too fancy) and know where the render button is found. That's about it. The rest is done in photoshop and similair applications. You need to know all about those applications and very little about about Poser. You need to know how to postwork, that's what they mainly rely on.

Imo all these images should be in a photoshop category, but that one still is missing. But that's a different discussion.

I'm not real convinced by your arguements that you have looked at the artists she mentions.  It is possible to get results like that with minimal to no postwork.  Just takes practice and an understanding of the program.