Penguinisto posted at 9:41AM Mon, 26 August 2019 - #4360483

randym77 posted at 6:56AM Mon, 26 August 2019 - #4360476

The thing is...if you're doing stuff like forensic animations or workplace training illustrations, you really don't need to buy anything. Poser comes with everything you need. Every once in awhile someone wanders in here looking for a safety vest or hard hat for Jessi, but otherwise...why buy anything?

A huge variety of vehicles (that don't all look like Ferraris and Porsches), streets/scenes, industrial equipment and scenery, weapons (that don't belong on Star Trek), etc... there's a surprising amount of stuff that you do need for such videos and illustrations. Even in the example I gave earlier with my chiropractor, he still had to go out and get the muscle-map texture kit... :)

I think for a lot of those, they'll model their own, or pay someone to do it. You can't just use a generic house or vehicle if you're doing a crime scene. It has to be an exact match. I remember seeing one where Jessi was found dead at the foot of a set of stairs. The defense claims she tripped and fell. The prosecution claimed she was thrown over the railing of the second floor. So there was a lot measuring of blood stains and scrapes, etc. with the animation showing what they thought happened. You're not going to find the house you need for that scene in the RMP.

And in the training PowerPoints I had to watch for my most recent yearly training, it was mostly head and shoulders only. So cheap they didn't even need desks and conference tables.