Afrodite-Ohki posted at 3:18PM Mon, 16 December 2019 - #4373524

This discussion is kind of like wanting to use Photoshop to make vector art. You can, but it wasn't made for that and it'll be much harder and take much longer to achieve what you could have done with, say, Adobe Illustrator.

That's right, but then I can easily point what Illustrator or CorelDraw has for vector graphics that Photoshop doesn't have. Like, Illustrator you can create polylines and polygons, then they exist forever, and you can change them, and so forth. So if I want a software where I initially draw a rectangle and then I want to change to an hexagon, then I can say that "Oh, in Illustrator I can add vertices to polygons, and therefore change a rectangle to an hexagon, while Photoshop doesn't have vertices, therefore can't do that.

So one can easily determine that he can't do a flying man on fire on Poser because Poser doesn't have fire, much less flying fire, so, if you want fire, use something else.

But the animation in question doesn't have any special effects, and every time I saw a "how it's made" clip about commercial movies, I always see the starting point as a bunch of guys moving skeletons and handlers in a timeframe, exactly like in Poser, followed by a very lengthy pipeline to add effects, pre-rendering, color correction, rendering, compositing, more effects, voice over, etc-etc-etc...

Of course Poser doesn't have (and isn't part) of that production pipeline, and that's not really what I'm looking for in it. I want the basic animation, with simple colors, no special effects, but with emotivity and grace. I fail to get that from Poser, and I tend to blame the darn timeline window for becoming unmanageable, but maybe Poser can do it, and maybe it's just lack of artistry in me. After all, you can give the same pencil to Rembrandt and me, and I have no doubt which one would create beauty in 5 minutes with a few simple strokes, and which one would spend all night and end up with a lot of junk.