it opened up to the Kawasaki ad and 5 gals in green caught my eye. they all have the flat expressionless look of a poser model, the fixed eyes and there faces all appear to be a variant of one of the things iv'e d/l over the past few years. anybody else notice this?

You wouldn't happen to have a scanned version we could look at would you?

Can you tell me what issue of Cycle World has the ad you are looking at? Steve Cooper '97 CBR1100XX

IMHO we should have a gallery of 'found' Poser art. Someone on the alt.binaries.poser forum was looking through a British mag on web design and an article had Linlin used as a background character.

I wish we could freely scan and post magazine images created with Poser, but I know from when we've tried to do this in this past on the CL website, we've run into image rights issues. So far my list of magazines in the US that have run Poser imagery is Maxim, Golf Digest, National Geographic, Scientific American, Time, Newsweek, numerous daily US newspapers. Here in the US, we also see the occasional product packaging that uses Poser figures. There was a line of squirt guns, and disc golf with Poser 4 figures on the cover. Then of course, there's MTV, Nickelodeon, the Letterman show, NBC, ABC, CBS and even NASA! What's really ironic for me is to see other software/technology products that use Poser figures as an "accurate" example of a digital figure that supposedly is created with their product. For instance, there are several online immersive systems that use Poser art to promote their environments or tools, hinting that inside you'll find figures of this complexity. What I find most rewarding are the uses of Poser in pre-visualization of film projects. It used to be that we would almost never hear about these projects, but with the advent of DVD titles that contain animated storyboards as part of the extra content, we've seen some cool Poser animations. "The fast and the furious" and "Moulin Rouge" are two recent titles that have used Poser for pre-viz and include footage on the DVD. The users that most frquently make us go hmmm...? orders from the White House, from a a lot un-named famous celebrities, and oddly from a former infamous football star/actor/golfer/white chevy blazer driver... Anyway, back to the grind, Steve Cooper Curious Labs

Poser as legal scene reconstruction tool, eh? Nice. If I had a floorplan for the house, I could finally animate my theory that Ron and Nicole were victims of vivisectionist Zeta Greys, that the defendant came home and saw the extraterrestrials, bugged before they could recognize him as a much better specimen, and kept his mouth shut through the trial because the Truth was too much for the courtroom to handle. Time to get to work on those custom head morphs...

Talk about digital crime scene recreation... Back in the late Poser 3 days, the Ohio attourney general's office contacted me to explore using Poser and Canoma to create an animated crime scene for use in a murder trial. The digital forensic team modeled the 3D room using scanned crime scene photos imported into Canoma. Two Poser figures were altered with morph targets and custom texture facial maps to put together a fairly realistic depiction of the suspect and the victim. The figures were animated, not artistically so, but certainly convincing enough for the job at hand. The rendered animation was much more compelling than that other famous crime scene animation. So much so, the defense had the evidence stricken from the trial. After seeing the rendered results, I believe it was the right decision for the court to have made. Steve Cooper

Hey, kupa! I just finished watching Jet Li in The One on DVD. I'm a bit disappointed that the studio didn't include more of the Poser-created previsualizations/animatics on the disc. Do you know how many were done for the film?

I wish I had a number to share with you. The folks at Dave Allen's studio that we were working with head into their own world once production starts, and as soon as they're done, another project is in the wings. I'm sure we'll be talking with them again once some new tools start making their way out. Did you find any Poser animation on the DVD? I haven't seen any reports back on that disc yet. Kupa

I have clearence to the inside of a nuclear power plant. And I spotted Poser figures on the cover of a nuclear engineers magazine a few weeks ago Steve. That was pretty strange. ScottA

A recent issue of New Scientist (weekly UK science mag) had an article about Schrodinger's cat illustrated with a partially wire frame cat to illustrate it. It looked very like the P4 cat to me (but I haven't compared to the mesh) - Mark