Here is the bit about her morphs and poses:

• 7 Full Body Morphs, over 20 Upper and Lower Body Partial Morphs and over 100 Facial Expression, Face Sculpting, Eye, Ear, Lip Mouth, Nose, Tongue and Phoneme Morphs
• 34 Advanced Body Controls
• 16 Miki 3 full body Poses
• 26 Miki 3 hand Poses
• 13 Miki 3 utility Poses including Deformer pose to apply to third party content
• 17 face Poses

Attached Link: Miki 3 on YouTube

Yes!  She will be available tomorrow - if you buy her and need support or have questions, please remember that the best way to get questions answered is to contact Smith Micro customer service and tech support directly, though there is an amazing PDF user guide put together that should address any questions.  We welcome discussion on her Facebook profile, and encourage you to submit renders to the Smith Micro Gallery so we can show off the range of looks this lovely lady has.

To simplify pricing, everyone will be able to get her for the promotional price of $14.99 through the end of the year.   After that time, she will be $39.99 for new users, or previous owners of Miki 2 can get her (with their Miki 2 serial number) for only $19.99.  Miki 2 will remain on the market at her current reduced price of $19.99. (Originally $49.99.)  MK2 is a lovely figure and I think still has a strong home in the market.

She is compatible with Poser 8 and Poser Pro 2010 only, and will not work with previous versions of Poser or DAZ Studio.

Content Paradise and RDNA will have additional products, and PhilC will be providing a Wardrobe Wizard module for sale.

She is gorgeous and her smile is charming.  I think she will be worth the wait. 

Quote - > Quote - What I don't understand is if these are the entries:  http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=123244&id=106113697478

If so, then Tempesta 3D has entered like 10 images or something to that effect and so have several others.   If not, then why is titled the same as the contest?  I got an email that mine was accepted but it's not on there so maybe they were flooded by the multiple entries?
This has got to be one of the most confusing contests I've ever seen and I don't even want to think about the judging :)

I think the "Faces of Poser" page which that link takes you to is a long-standing Facebook gallery of Poser images - for instance the one they use as the promo/box art for Poser Pro 2010 is in there - and they've titled it "Faces of Poser"; there is a note at the bottom which says it was last updated 10 months ago.  The fact that they've also titled the theme of this week's competition as "Faces of Poser" might be the source of the confusion.  I don't think they've posted the entries for the second week yet, like they did with the first week's.  I'm probably wrong though, I usually am....! 

Correct - We have been collecting "Faces of Poser" for quite some time, and the Facebook gallery is unrelated to the current blog contest, as you can see by the very old upload dates - you can see these same images on deviantART here:  http://smithmicro.deviantart.com/gallery/#Faces-of-Poser.  We have not posted the entries for the current week contest, and will not do so each week until the contest closes and the winner is announced.

We also collect our favorite DA faces of Poser that have not been submitted as gallery images here, in case you want to browse more awesome art: http://smithmicro.deviantart.com/favourites/#Faces-of-Poser

Acadia - There must be some confusion - We got your week #2 entry multiple times, so it is possible you received a rejection notice for one of the duplicates, but I clearly saw your entry in the pool to be judged for this week, so please don't worry.  Did you not also receive a notice that your image was accepted?  I see that it has been approved 3 different times:

Date Submitted: 08-31-2010
Approved By: on Fri Sep 3 09:36:17 2010

Date Submitted: 09-02-2010
Approved By: on Fri Sep 3 09:35:28 2010

Date Submitted: 09-04-2010
Approved By: on Tue Sep 7 10:41:18 2010

We only announced the winners for the Week 1 contest, and it appears you have entered week 2, which only closed on Sunday and hasn't been judged/announced yet.  There are 5 weeks of contests with different themes. 

***This is the type of thing where it's good to ask a question on the blog itself, rather than wondering over here, as our blogger does not read the forums.

Quote - You basically gave three answers to your own question.  Poser is tied to Shade which is tied to anime which equates to non-sexy which results in old fogees still using Poser.

Just a quick note - Poser is not tied to Shade.  We have been owned by different companies for over 2 years now...

Here are some of the images I really liked at DeviantART:
http://smithmicro.deviantart.com/favourites/#GroBoto

Quote - Is there any online demo's available. I'd like to see what you're talking about with the generating meshes stuff.

I found this YouTube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp3-98ZGIas

There is also a trial here:
http://groboto.com/Store_Downloads.html

We also hoped that stuff like the staff video would help show a little more that we are trying to communicate and put ourselves out there.  There is also a lot more to communication than the forums, and we are a very small team who can't be everywhere talking to everyone at once.  If you have something to say to Smith Micro - PLEASE - contact us.   There are multiple methods to email your suggestions, feature requests, etc.  I was pretty surprised that when we offered an open feedback form at the beginning of this year, fewer people than I expected shared their opinions or feature requests.  The feedback we got was plentiful enough for me to submit some opinions to the teams and was actually pretty amazing, but I truly expected a lot more in terms of volume. 

I think the blog is awesome.  (And funny, and no, I don't write it!)  blog.smithmicro.com is not about announcements.  It's about the art, the artists and the products.    I'm not really here to defend our use of social networks, but I can say very clearly that had I not been on deviantART the past few months, our Poser Pro 2010 box wouldn't have such a kickass image and we wouldn't have been able to discover Paul Sutton.  We're finding new artists and stories every day on Twitter, YouTube and Facebook.  People are out there sharing their art, and we're out there trying to talk to them about it.  I can say since the launch of Manga Studio 4, Anime Studio 6 and Poser 8, there has been a decided turn in the tone towards communication with our users, and there is A LOT of back and forth happening.  It is frankly why I love coming to work every day.

For what it's worth, I don't think anyone is piling it on.  If anything, I was thinking yesterday, I have known a lot of the more frequent posters on here for many, many, years and I know how your opinions of the products and companies have changed, and I have a ton of respect for your feedback on the product, good or bad.  I know that some people have very sensitive feelings about past actions of the company or their relationship with the product, but I also know the hard work put in here is appreciated a lot too.  I collect it all, and do what I can. 

Dave - I'll see what I can do about getting some sort of event set up where you can talk to some developers or ask questions.  We've done things here at Rendo in the past where you could submit questions to product managers, it's been a while. 

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If it were still a home-grown software with a small DEDICATED staff of designers and code writers, I think we would be seeing more of those enhancements and fixes.  Along with fresh new ideas.

I get the feeling that they just want to push the next version out the door to make some more money.  And as was already mentioned, not even fixing the older versions first, just moving on to the next version with a minimal amount of hoopla advertising.
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3 not-quick things:

What factors lead you to that feeling?  I truly want to combat this whenever possible.  There have been multiple service release showing our dedication to fix the products and bugs, we took serious user input and invited a public beta on this version and have tried to increase our communication with users.  We are trying pretty hard here to make you feel like we aren't corporate!  Do you have any suggestions on ways we could communicate that better? 

We are a very small, VERY dedicated staff that make up the Smith Micro Productivity and Graphics group here in Watsonville.  I've been here 9 years, and there are at least 10 people here who have been working with Poser longer than me and done more than the 3 company jump, some have done the 5 company jump.  (Smith, Efro, CL, Meta & Fractal.)  We have even more excitement and energy behind the product than ever before - It's really quite awesome to work here now.  (Oy, there were days in the past company years, it wasn't near as fun..)  I'm pretty excited to start doing a few more behind the scenes pieces so you all can really see who is working on the software and making the decisions, and where the ideas are coming from.  I will say what I always say - the motives behind the development and sale of this product by the team here are pretty darn awesome.  (And while our owner is bigger than in the past - they are certainly behind this product line, and it is not just another horse in the stable.)

Regarding the contest - I'm pretty sure that I had uploaded at least 30 videos the day before the close of the contest.  We're just trying to do more events, you should see a lot of these kinds of things for our products this year.  Not everyone will want to play every game, take every discount or visit every website.  I'll definitely work on some camera-shy events.  For this particular contest - I thought it was better to not cut 9 people out of the prize, that seemed silly.  If we had gotten 100 entries, chances are we would have probably had to enforce things like the video time limit, etc.  But, I was really excited by the quality of the entries and want people to have good happy feelings about participating in things, not negative feelings.  We haven't done many contests, this was a test of the waters again.  If you missed this event, watch out, you never know what we're going to do next!  I don't think there is any direct relationship between the events, prizes and contests to the future or development of the product, nor any indication of a corporate influence in them!  If that's what you're hearing from this though, I need to rethink how we approach things.

Regarding the website - We tried to add the new "microsites" in order to be a little more graphic and image based as well as share more of the product information.  Check out poser.smithmicro.com, anime.smithmicro,com and manga.smithmicro.com in order to see a little less corporate feel of the company and graphics products!

Thanks for being part of this community - I am not here as much as I like, but I do try and listen and carry forth the messages here, and know many more lurk...so keep talking, and we'll do what we can!

Tori Porter
Online Marketing
Smith Micro

Quote - I purchased the "Poser 8" sidegrade to "Poser Pro" with the promise of a free upgrade to "Poser Pro 2010". How do I access that download?

Check your email for instructions if you purchased from store.smithmicro or Content Paradise.  If you did not receive an email, perhaps try contacting customer service later today and they should be able to assist you.

Quote - Anybody who owns Poser 8 or Poser Pro can get it for $50

You have to own BOTH Poser 8 and Poser Pro to get Poser Pro 2010 for $50. 

Upgrade details here:
http://poser.smithmicro.com/upgrade.html

Quote - What about those who recently sidegraded to Poser Pro from either Poser 7 or 8? Aren't they supposed to get the free download?

TS

Yes!  Anyone who purchased Poser Pro within 30 days gets a free 2010 download version.  We will try and contact as many of those people via email as possible, but if you do not receive an email, please contact customer service, but I would wait a little bit.  The launch is just beginning, and many things are rolling and something may be on it's way.  I'd give it at least the morning here on the west coast for all the switches to be turned on and warmed up! 

LK - YAY!  That's what we like to hear!  I hope the rest of the installation goes well. 

Okay, now back to flipping switches...

Quote - efstarlet:

Poser Pro 2010 is now on sell at Content Paradise. The special upgrade price for Poser Pro - Poser 8 owners is not offered.

http://www.contentparadise.com/productdetails.aspx?id=13301

When will we be given the opportunity to order and download Poser Pro 2010?

Thanks,

LMK

A special email is coming to you with special links if you registered for the beta, but you can also get it from the main upgrade page on the Poser website.  You require 2 serials for the special price -
http://poser.smithmicro.com/upgrade.html

edit - crosspost :) 

Attached Link: Poser 8 & Poser Pro 2010 - On Sale Now.

Contact support - it's possible your spam filter blocked my email.  All entrants should have your copy.

btw - it's here.  :) 
http://poser.smithmicro.com

Quote - Still can not get SM site to show how to sidegrade from P7 to Poser pro , asks for Pro serial number. Just when I really believed it was no dream offer, "buy / sidegrade to poser pro and get Poser 2010 for free "   ,......   only if you can get the site to except a serial number.........

Perhaps SM will get it together and sort it out   ??? And then I`ll rush in where fools dear to tred

Contact support here:
http://support.contentparadise.com/contact.html

or here:
http://my.smithmicro.com/support/index.html