Yeah I'll be trying to fill Steve Cooper's shoes as Poser's Product Manager. Today is my first official day but I've been trying to come up- to speed for about a week.

I'll be here for you when you have questions. Please, if you have ideas don't be shy, let me know. Maybe your idea can be a feature in the next version of Poser.

Let me be the first to congratulate you.  This is wonderful.  I'm happy for you!!!

Wow, congrats to you!!

We're all really happy to have Charles on board! Here's to a bright future!

Hi Charles, congratulations on your new position. The Poser community is lucky to have gained such expert to be in the driver seat for Poser. Does this mean that we are neighbors now?:)

Yeah, listen Nerd, sounds cool, just as long as you know there are certain Poser girls who refuse to be managed!!!

Later,
Roxie - Girl With Blade

Congrats, Nerd, or is that Mr. Nerd now?

congrats Nerd!!!!!

great news, nerd!  I daresay we got quite a few requests.

p.s I still got "nerd stuff" from '99 in poser 4 runtime.

Hey Paolo! Telecommuting and Commuting. We'll have to get together for lunch or something

Hey Paolo! Telecommuting and Commuting. We'll have to get together for lunch or something

Absolutely. Let me know when you are in Santa Cruz, I'll stop by and we can go to lunch. Cheers.

Cool Beans!  :D

Congrats, Charles!

Already put my congrats in over at HiveWire, but want to add them here, too.  Congrats, Chuck -  They couldn't have made a better choice and they were super smart to grab you!

This might ruin my glee, because he'll probably correct his "mistake" now, but I couldn't help but notice that this announcement was made on every forum except with one "intriguing" omission. :)

Many congreatulations!  Coop is a hard act to follow but I'm certain they picked the right guy here.  Well done you, and well done SM for hiring you.

Congrats

This might ruin my glee, because he'll probably correct his "mistake" now, but I couldn't help but notice that this announcement was made on every forum except with one "intriguing" omission. :)

Who's intriguing? Me? I resemble that! LOL

Pleased as can be! Many congrats and welcomes!

Congrats and good luck.

Congrats!!! I'm very happy for you, and for me!

Fresh blood, fresh idea's.
New chief, new future.
And, LOL; Many good tutorials coming our way to enhance overall usability.
A bright and creative enhancement for Poser.
All the best, Tony

Neat!

Now about those animation upgrades...... ;P

If it was just me it'd be all about animation LOL. You guys may not know but I rigged most of the characters for RWBY season two.That was an awesome experience. Taking on the PM job, I probably won't have time to do that for season three. That was a tough choice but I think I can actually benefit both RWBY (and all the animators) and Poser more from here.

hmm, congratulations .

er, one question though, ....., is Poser going to optimised for chain mail bras and bikinis ? 

LOL I still have some of those on old backup CDs.

Why are they in a backup? They should be in your library favorites! They're a must for NPITWAS renders. That's Naked Posette not Vicky LOL.

I should do a render as a celebration tribute LOL

I hope to see something that will make rigging clothing a little simpler, easier and faster.

If it was just me it'd be all about animation LOL.

Does that mean we might get new styling tools for the hair room so we can have hair that moves? I don't know about the other dynamic hair creators but I'd even be willing to remake my hair if new and easier to use tools meant no backward compatibility with old dynamic hair.

Best Poser related news I have heard for a long while.  Many congratulations.

If it was just me it'd be all about animation LOL. You guys may not know but I rigged most of the characters for RWBY season two.That was an awesome experience. Taking on the PM job, I probably won't have time to do that for season three. That was a tough choice but I think I can actually benefit both RWBY (and all the animators) and Poser more from here.

You sneaky bastard! There were some tricks I saw in a video of one of the panels that looked familiar, I just couldn't place where I'd seen it! Are you the one who finally gave the girls fully rigged hands? And if we're making lists, maybe you could see if Wierd Juices Metaform is up for sale at a reasonable price. That little python script did some amazing things, and once it was multi-threaded to take advantage of current hardware, you would have a lovely poor man's RealFlow to play with. Maybe not on order of oceans and such, but it did lovely effects, and a shower is quite possible. Or broken pipes in a post apocalyptic set, etc...... Particularly if you could get it talking to Poser's physics engine. For that matter, a ragdoll module for Bullet would be nice, too...

Cheers!!

So.. what exactly is the Product Manager's role?

So.. what exactly is the Product Manager's role?

He manages the product. :)

sorry to hear this Nerd.. you're now gonna get all the shit that comes out of the forums ,,, every bug, every person that disagrees with a programming choice, a policy choice..

good luck mate. you will need it... 

Through I am not an animator, I'm assuming you will be focusing on ALL aspects of Poser... CONGRATULATIONS!  It just DAWNED on me that it was YOU that taught me how to use the cloth room in that youtube video I have book marked and go back to now and then! I've been afraid of the cloth room forever...but HAD to learn it, since a large % of clothes for Dawn are dynamic...and now seem to remember a voice saying hi, this is Chuck with Nerd3d... wait... WITH?? um.... is "Nerd3D" more than one person?  or wouldn't it be This is Chuck, pause Nerd3d, now I'm confused.... grin!

CONGRATULATIONS CHUCK!   :)    One thing I have wished for in Poser (though I do see there is a thread FOR that here at Rendo) ...but since I hope to have your attention...I'll speak up.... IS the ability to MOVE THE RENDERING IMAGE WHILE IT IS RENDERING... like in Carrara - that is so handy to check on the quality of the render or simply to check on where it is, in the process...-I do LARGE renders so most of the time it's "off screen" - and yes I do do test renders, but hey, it's nice, and its FUN to watch rendering in process. 

um and yes, I am a professional "run-on sentence writer"....sorry bout that. :) 

Coop is a hard act to follow 

We'll always have a special place in our hearts for Poser 5, won't we. From one old timer to another, kudos Nerd.

So.. what exactly is the Product Manager's role?

My primary function is to make sure Poser does what YOU need it to.

Congrats! :)

Congrats, Nerd!!! SM and the whole Poser community is lucky to have you in the Product Manager position.

Well I'm with Dale and the others here, Poser definitely needs up-to-date Animation tools, they're really pushing animators patience as it is, so if the next big release is still a failure in the animation area, I think that would be seriously damaging to Poser - they have got to show the animators some love in the next release cause iClone is making a laughing stock of Poser and I'm guessing that's where all the "would-be" animators will go if something isn't done about it.

Anyway, I'm super-pleased to hear that Nerd is into the animation side of things, that's excellent news indeed!

Congrats on the position, Nerd, but as with all of them, you shall be judged on what becomes of Poser while she's under your power :-P
I hope to be able to say "Yup, that Nerd dude, he really brought Poser up to speed in all the right places!"

If you don't, I'm asking Smith Micro for your job next time around!

Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha- "Pumeco" or the "blade lady" as Poser managers. LOL. I quit, I quit, where can I quit !!!!!!!!! LOL.
All stations, clear to dive. Does a sub sink? Damm, it can.

BAIL out, BAIL out ! Grrrrrrrrrr, that blade lady cut my chute !!!
Now, I am dropping in the Devils And Zombies river......
LOL.

HIVE, I need a WIRE

Realy? This forum is beyond repair.....

???

Too many 5 hour drinks, vilters......?  :P

Nerd, congrats. Hope before you start you can take a little time off and maybe go spend a day or 2 enjoying a "Tropical Cove", then spend another day or 2 watching the "Waves On The Beach". But whatever you do, don't work so hard you end up in "Boot Hill" before your time! .

Wondering what surprises a fresh pair of eyes does to all that code :)

Wooo hooo, I'm happy dancing across the forums and websites :)

@Dale
Yup, either that or he fell off his Quad-Bike and banged his head :-P

@Vilters
Don't worry, it'll never happen :-D

Oh no guys, just happy that Poser got a well respected Poser manager to build a bright Poser future for us all to enjoy.
happy renderings, Tony

Still no announcement on the DAZ forum about the good news. I so badly want to take that as a good sign that Poser is finally going to see Studio for what it is... the competition, not a partner.

Congrats nerd...

Although tempered with a bit of apprehension, as, unfortunately for me (because I really value your tutorials and such on your site, nerd3d.com) my IP address is blocked by your site. No, I don't have a clue why and it's a recent development... I've never posted anything on your site or participated in your forums. If I visit your site from a different IP via wireless on the same device I am not blocked, so I'm left only with speculation. Anyway, apologies for the ot, Rendo.

Congrats Charles I hope they pay well for the headaches

you are about to endure.

BTW your poser pro 2014 Video tutorials were quite 

helpful in getting  me up to speed after My making the huge leap

from poser 6 up to Pro 2014.

Although I have long been the bane of your predecessors existence with my endless rants about the Character animation tools, Just be aware that you sir will get no such grief from me.

As I have incorporated Iclone pro 5.5 with 3D exchange

for my Character animation creation and retargeting to my poser figures and Endorphin for my ragdoll action which also exports to poser compatibe BVH.

If I were to offer any unsolicited Advice  on major new features 

that would likley please the largest number of users,

It  would be to replace firefly with a proper PBR and make the material node system more user friendly, Like  the elegant system of blender.

Physically based GPU/CPU rendering is now in the hands of even the most Casual hobbiest's at ZERO ENTRY COSTS

( Blender,Cycles,Daz Iray ).

IMHO SM would be wise to get onboard.

"I so badly want to take that as a good sign that Poser is finally going to see Studio for what it is... the competition, not a partner."

Dont you mean poser users like yourself. :-)

Daz studio will truly never be "the competition" because

it is freeware.

thus I am not sure why you think this would be relevant news

to Daz users any more so than the hiring of a new product manager at Autodesk.