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Poser - OFFICIAL F.A.Q (Last Updated: 2025 Jan 03 8:14 am)
Really depends on how much you already know about Poser. I bought my nephews Poser 9 in 2012 for Christmas. I also upgraded them to Poser 10 this Christmas. At thanksgiving they had a ton of questions about how to do a lot of things in 9. To help with all the things they needed help with I bought the Infinite Skills training from Amazon (which by the title I believe is the same one) which you are asking about.
It covers a lot and I even got a couple tips out of it. There are a couple of very small issues with what is covered and the current version of Poser, the training is based on a prerelease version and is also done on a MAC. It will not make you an expert on any one subject, but does go over all the programs features with exercises to make you do the task and do for yourself what is being discussed.
As I said it depends on how much you already know. I know the principles of rigging but the demo of how to rig a model was fairly well done and explained a couple issues that I had not even thought about. So I personally think it a good buy.
Poser 5, 6, 7, 8, Poser Pro 9 (2012), 10 (2014), 11, 12, 13
Just found the course on InfiniteSkills.com's web site and watched the What's Covered video under the Table of Contents tab. Definitely looks promising. Covers a lot of stuff I don't yet know anything about.
http://www.infiniteskills.com/training/learning-poser-10-and-poser-pro-2014.html
I've bought a few tutorial sets from the big guys including an early production from a major player I won't mention.
They aren't worth the money.
In my real job I prepare graphics for online training and work for a couple of real, honest-to-goodness training development folks. I've learned a LOT about what to expect from training packages and all the ones I've paid for have fallen a long way off the mark. All the material I've downloaded has large (or small but important) gaps or make large leaps of assumed knowledge leaving one wondering where the heck "that" came from.
I've gotten used to this from learning other software via online tuts and and recommend that one adopts a 'driftnet' approach to grabbing lessons. Like a driftnet indiscriminately raping the oceans by catching everything that swims, suck up everything you find on the subject, hoping that they will together, provide a reasonably complete set of instructions. You may even find some gems. I've become a huge fan of this site... http://drgeep.com/ It's a bit messy and some lessons are duplicated in two spots. The navigation is a teensy bit odd but my suffering snot suckers!...it has a ton of excellent material. While seemingly simplistic and childish, the lessons cover the material thoroughly. As an example, in none of the two books I'd bought, none of the hundreds of tutorials I'd downloaded, and NOT anywhere in the actual manual supplied with Poser is one taught the difference between a prop, figure and a body. I couldn't even find what the 'hand' icon meant in the hierarchy editor. Dr Geep filled me in quickly. I can't say enough about his tutorials.
...and no, I'm not trying to suck up Doc.
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I just got an offer from SM to save 40% off PPro 2014/P10 training videos by InfiniteSkills.com that expires March 15.
Is the training worth $60?
http://sites.fastspring.com/smithmicro/product/24059?tags=poser&utm_source=SmithMicro&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=HeaderCTA&utm_campaign=PoserExpert&hq_e=el&hq_m=1340412&hq_l=5&hq_v=8e1217e23d