thinkcooper opened this issue on Mar 01, 2013 · 70 posts
wolf359 posted Sat, 02 March 2013 at 8:27 PM
HI I dont think anyone has honestly asserted that you cant Do animation "in poser".
I think I have debunked that notion over these last 10- 12 years.
I think for some the question often becomes wether you can produce"final quality" animation productions all within in poser including full render and the answer remains a resounding ..No IMHO.
Posers ability to import canned BVH mocap from a variety of sources and apply it to figures with "basic "poser rigging is its strong suit for sure.
Although at this point the aniMate+ nonlinear motion clip mixing system for DAZ Studio is the Superior approach.
The problem however with both poser & DS is when you have to create Custom Client guided, hand keyed animation.
this is when you see how horribly broken
is posers "all or nothing IK system is.
and how ancient its graph editor and Dope sheet is as well.
and have you ever tried to do some really dramatic animated camera move with posers cameras and the "point at "feature enabled??
From my perspective as someone who does animation for paying clients
the greatest feature poser has seen the last decade is the poser physics/ragdoll system and that is from a dedicated third party developer.
And as Cyberdene stated rendering full quality animation frames in Firefly is just a non starter
completely impractical IMHO.