Does anyone have, or know where to find screenshots or renders done with the first Poser? And was it called Poser?

Curious minds want to know.

Thank you!!!

Don't know about any screenshots or renders, but yes it was called Poser and it was by Curious Labs.

Up until 2012 when my apartment was destroyed by a fire I still had all the poser versions. My Poser 1.0 had two stickers on it one said ver 1.0 and the other said beta 1.1 on it

My boss had a program that he was messing with that was kind of like Poser. I don’t know what it was called. But this was in 2003 or so. I’m curious to see what everything looked like before 

https://www.posersoftware.com/article/484/poser-through-the-years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poser_(software)

Also, if you use the search bar at the top of the page, set to galleries, and search 2001, 2002, and 2003. You'll find some of the earliest gallery posts.

Thank you!!!!

I made a mistake about who brought it out first I bought it when it first came out back in 95

I was 15 years later, with Poser 8 in 2010...

2007 with Poser 7 here...

I started with Poser 4 Pro Pack.  I believe the original was by Fractal Design.

2005 here with Poser 6

I started with Poser 4 Pro Pack.  I believe the original was by Fractal Design.

The Poser 1 figures are/were part of the separately downloadable legacy content.

They can be found in the Poser 2 Lo folder and for the most part still work in Poser 11.

Neither clothing nor hair was provided. Also the hands were not rigged, so different hand gestures were realized by geometry switching instead.

(You have to dial through a variety of differently sculpted hands)

Also expression morphs were still something Poser users had to wait for a couple of years until Poser 3 I think.

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But the Poser 2 figures were already a massive improvement over them, as nudity was now "optional", even though they still couldn't talk and properly rigged hands were still not on the table:

Here is a review of Poser 1.0:

https://www.wap.org/journal/poser/poser.html

And this is how the packaging looked like:

http://poserhistory.blogspot.com/2014/07/1995-fractal-design-poser-1.html

I vaguely remember getting a free poser 1 with a magazine. Didn't keep it, thugh, after finding you could spin a figure at the waist through any number of turns.

Next encountered it with Poser 4 (still have the manual), but didn't use it much till Poser 6. My old G5 Mac (2005) has Poser 7 installed and everything still works, so if ever we lose poser 11(dial home) support I'll still have that to fall back on.

Poser 1-2-3-4 were owned by MetaCreations, Poser 5-6-7 were Curious-Labs , 8-9-10 till Pro e-frontier, then SmithMicro and finally P11-up to current P13 Bondware. :)

Myself was in Poser since version 2 up to Poser Pro 2014 very actively. the last version I own is P12.

noxiart posted at 12:57 AM Thu, 27 June 2024 - #4486774

The Poser 1 figures are/were part of the separately downloadable legacy content.

They can be found in the Poser 2 Lo folder and for the most part still work in Poser 11.

Neither clothing nor hair was provided. Also the hands were not rigged, so different hand gestures were realized by geometry switching instead.

(You have to dial through a variety of differently sculpted hands)

Also expression morphs were still something Poser users had to wait for a couple of years until Poser 3 I think.

*

But the Poser 2 figures were already a massive improvement over them, as nudity was now "optional", even though they still couldn't talk and properly rigged hands were still not on the table:

Here is a review of Poser 1.0:

https://www.wap.org/journal/poser/poser.html

And this is how the packaging looked like:

http://poserhistory.blogspot.com/2014/07/1995-fractal-design-poser-1.html

Thank you so much for posting these.

The first pic created with Poser I ever saw was this 

Nice. Of course the box for Poser 8 was the first one I ever saw.

To be honest, I didn't buy the program the first time I saw it. I was curious, obviously, but I put it down. I contemplated it a few times. The price was $80 for it, and I remember thinking that if it didn't deliver on what the box promised, I'd be out $80 and sitting with a useless program.

I went back a couple days later and bought it. After looking online at what it could do, and seeing how much less it costs at a Navy Exchange in Bahrain, I went ahead and took the plunge. Now 14 years later I don't regret it one bit.

I started with Poser Artist.  By that time, Poser 5 was already out.