Does anyone know where I can find a tutorial on creating a dwarf charecter in poser?

Check: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/details.php?item_id=58280

or

RPG Series Pt 1: Dwarves over at Daz.

It's real easy ...

1. Select Body

2. Decrease yScale

3. Walla ... Dwarf!

:lol:

(sorry, couldn't resist)

THanks so much :)

My new pet peeve is walla. I'm not going to put up with it anymore. The word you mean, geep, is

voilà

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walla

and a dwarf is not a V4/M4 supermodel just flattened along the Y-axis, as a penguin is not just a flattened ostrich.

Usually, dwarfs have mainly reduced limbs, a somewhat reduced torso and an equivalently reduced circumference (X/Z axes) of body and limbs, and do not have a reduced head.

As a result they have quite a different motion cycle for running, walking, grabbing and reaching: they do need some serious torso movement as well to reach their goals elegantly.

all the best. And it might pay off to study the (sixus1 uni-)dwarf models at RDNA.

Attached Link: Here's da proof !

Voilà!

Sorry BB,

But I gots ta disagree wit ya.

HEY ! ... Ain't ya never heard da song ...

It's a purrectly good werd. :lol:

Here's evidence that prooves it. :lol: ... Us doctors have to stick together. :lol:

cheers,
which dr geep? <----------------------- da goofy one, ha ha ... ;=]
;=]

P.S. Je parle francais. :biggrin:

And if ya don't believe it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhJ1wa3phFQ 

as Lawrence Welk said, Tank ya boys! 

Quote - And if ya don't believe it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhJ1wa3phFQ 

as Lawrence Welk said, Tank ya boys! 

And ... the evidence builds ............................................... :lol:

Quote - My new pet peeve is walla. I'm not going to put up with it anymore. ...

BUT ... will you put up with it any ...... LESS? :blink:

You have to disagree with me in what way? You disagree that it annoys me? I assure you it does. You think that walla is a re-spelling, not a misspelling? But I gave you a link showing that it already has a meaning in English. Anyway, if you were going to claim it is a borrowed word, then it is borrowed from Hindi - e.g. chai walla - the guy in charge of the tea.

Let me give you an analogy. If you were to drink water through your nose in my presence, and claim it was valid and fun and you know how to drink water properly but choose not to, I'd still get up from the table.

Also, there are many people who, upon seeing this "re-spelling", believe it is the correct spelling and they repeat it themselves, to their own embarrassment.

i had a go at making an RPG style dwarf, when i was playing with dynamic hair beards (and eyes crossed pose).

Scaled down M4 body, then used the Head Scale morph to bring his head size back up.  added beer belly and a couple of weight gaining morphs.

Quote - and a dwarf is not a V4/M4 supermodel just flattened along the Y-axis, as a penguin is not just a flattened ostrich.

Usually, dwarfs have mainly reduced limbs, a somewhat reduced torso and an equivalently reduced circumference (X/Z axes) of body and limbs, and do not have a reduced head.

As a result they have quite a different motion cycle for running, walking, grabbing and reaching: they do need some serious torso movement as well to reach their goals elegantly.

all the best. And it might pay off to study the (sixus1 uni-)dwarf models at RDNA.

seeing what you mean about the shortened limbs.   but won't it run into the single axis scaling thing?

"Voila! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate."

If V said it's voila, it must be true ;).

Laurie

Quote - You have to disagree with me in what way? You disagree that it annoys me? I assure you it does.

I sincerely apologize BB, and I can not and do not disagree with the fact that it annoys you.

I, obviously, could not and do not know what annoys you any more than you could know what annoys me (which is very little anymore because life is too short to get annoyed with trivial things like the bastardization of the English language, e.g., the misuse of, to, too, two, or their, there, etc.).

Please accept my sincere apology and I shall try to refrain from using THAT word in the future.

BTW - Can you suggest a substitute that might be acceptable? :blink: Seriously.

cheers,
dr geep <---------------------------------- trying to get back to normal (maybe)
;=]

When I tried making one, shortening the legs Y scale worked reasonably well, but my problem was shortening the arms X scale - because the joints get all wonky, (or perhaps "voionky"?) ...& I've never set-up or played with joint rotations.   How tough would it be to realign them to bend correctly with new X-scaled arms?

what about elongating his torso, and then scaling down the body again?

or is it the opposite?  if you make his torso longer, legs and arms should look shorter, right?

sorry, brain constipation this morning.

i think 'little people' is the PC term. shame on you people :)

i wouldn't call Gimli 'little people' to his face.  thaz a big axe and a temper to match, he haz  :lol:

Quote - > Quote - You have to disagree with me in what way? You disagree that it annoys me? I assure you it does.

I sincerely apologize BB, and I can not and do not disagree with the fact that it annoys you.

I, obviously, could not and do not know what annoys you any more than you could know what annoys me (which is very little anymore because life is too short to get annoyed with trivial things like the bastardization of the English language, e.g., the misuse of, to, too, two, or their, there, etc.).

Please accept my sincere apology and I shall try to refrain from using THAT word in the future.

BTW - Can you suggest a substitute that might be acceptable? :blink: Seriously.

cheers,
dr geep <---------------------------------- trying to get back to normal (maybe)
;=]

iz cute when NaySayGuy says it 

Huh? Sez whot?

@Misty

You just HAD to mention his name didn't you.

Quote - Huh? Sez whot?

hi NaySayGuy, nice of yoo to stop by the threads.

@Misty

Puhleeeeeeeze ... don't encourage him.!!!

Quote - @Misty

You just HAD to mention his name didn't you.

no apologies tee hee

I say we dispense with voila / walla and instead use "Behold!" 

Hmmm ...

Somehow,  "Ting Tang, Behold Bohold, Bing Bang"

... just doesn't have the same ring to it, ya know. :lol:

Quote - Hmmm ...

Somehow,  "Ting Tang, Behold Bohold, Bing Bang"

... just doesn't have the same ring to it, ya know. :lol:

Maybe not but it does kinda have a catchiness all it's own don't you think?

Ah, pity the poor folks who actually live in Walla Walla. BB, you would have hated Norm Crosby :-) "Norm Crosby King of the malaprop, Norm always speaks from his 'diagram' and drinks 'decapitated' coffee."

I think you should head on over to Runtime DNA and buy Sixus' Unidwarf on sale for the unbelievably low price of $7.48 including texture map and clothes.  There is also an array of inexpensive clothinig and textures and morphs for him.

Attached Link: Marvelous Morphs

http://www.daz3d.com/i/shop/itemdetails/?item=9543

it comes with clothing fit morphs

Are those Genesis morphs or regular ones?  They look really good.  I would think it would be easier to create a dwarf with Genesis due to the sub-d and large selection of interchangeable morphs.  The link isn't working for me but I'll have to check it out.

I really do like Sixus's Unidwarf--it doesn't have the degree of realism that the above characters have, but I think that it is rather nice & I intend to buy it some day.

Attached Link: Marvelous morphs

maybe this link will work better

http://www.daz3d.com/i/shop/itemdetails/?item=9543

I do have a genesis version as well with my "Fantasy shapes" set

http://www.daz3d.com/i/shop/itemdetails/?item=12847

but that only works in ds4,  not what the OP was asking for.

I put your morphs on my wish list, I'll buy them eventually.

Apollo Maximus has a Dwarf scale dial and it's free, unidwarf by Sixus looks good too.