Hi and welcome. First, it's a good idea to give the Poser version you're using in such posts. Poser5 and Poser4 tutoria are quite different. A good place to start is the Poser Forum FAQ. You'll find a link at the top of the Poser Forum main page. A good place to find characters is right here in free stuff, or the market place. You'll also fing models and Characters at: Daz3d.com ; RuntimeDNA.com ; PoserWorld and many, many more places that you'll find in the links section on the right of this page...way down there. You'll find tutoria there as well, within these great sites. What sort of tutorials are you looking for? What do you want to tackle first? That's a question you'll have to ask yourself. As for the FF8 characters... Don't know what that is...I'm old. Somebody else (read a whippersnapper) will come along and help. Just wait. You'll see...) Good luck, Q

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