Have you folks figured out how to make large gaping flesh wounds, compound fractures, and severed limbs yet? I hate to do this to poor michael, but I need some combat injuries for an animation I am thinking about.

I don't think you would get away with that kinda thing... I imagine Michael would walk off the set if asked to play these gory roles, so you would have to hire the poser dork or even the poser 2 or 3 dorks to play the stunt roles. Just make sure that you put the severed limbs in the contract before they sign so they don't have a way out of it.

The best way that I know how to do such a thing is to twist his limbs around a few times then bend them to impossible angles. He just kind of opens up. The resulting carnage can then be easily painted in postwork. Also don't overlook the disembodied head and hand that come with Poser. Hair and textures can be applied to the head and I think you can even give it facial expressions...LOL. I almost posted something that I did a while back while experimenting with this tactic, but after previewing the post, I removed it. It would have broke about every major rule here at Renderosity. Good luck!

Try trans mapping the bodyskin, & placing viscera, torn muscle tissue, etc just within. (lots of free medical 3DS & OBJ files avail at several free download sites - 3Dcafe has a ton! - I just checked to make sure they're still there) Also try a search here, I recall seeing a tutorial about breaking a mesh into individual body parts I found thru a link in this forum.

Severed limbs would be easy if done at the joints, just pose and export selecting just the severed pieces and then import back in and appley texture/props. Also conforming a skeliton inside Mike and putting a transparancy to the body texture may help in protruding bones and ribs....

Those are some good ideas! Thanks!