Attached Link: http://www.the-forge.ie

Actually, the address for PoseAmation is: http://www.the-forge.ie

We're in negotiations with someone at the moment regarding the distribution of PA2 as a properly packaged product. I'll let you know more later. Chris

I think that you're still missuderstanding me. Let me clarify: 1) Daz produce some cd's of motions that use mostly motion capture and I believe, can be used with Victoria. 2) The Forge produced PoseAmation Volume 1 in 1998 for Poser 3, it was updated in 99 for Poser 4. None of these files will work with Michael or Victoria due to the differences in joint structure and grouping. 3) The Forge stopped selling cd's and began distributing PoseAmation as downloads only, selling it as full cd contents, as individual downloads and as small packs of related actions. 4) When Daz opened their on-line shop, they asked us if they could sell PoseAmation in their shop as well. They decided not to sell the full cd contents and rather than use the packs that we had assembled for our website sales, they decided to bundle the actions in their own way - combining scnes from both the Poser and BVH versions of PoseAmation 1. 5) In the near future, we plan to revise the animation from PoseAmation 1 and 2 for use with Michael and Victoria but it hasn't happened yet. That should clear things up a little. :') Chris

Oops, I forgot to make my point... The Daz cd's may be made for Vickie but I can guarantee that the PoseAmation files do NOT work with Michael or Victoria. Chris

Please note, PoseAmation and the Daz Motions cds are NOT the same thing. Daz have repackaged the PoseAmation 1 files as Male Motions, Female Motions and Horse Gallop packs in their on-line shop. The motion cds are totally different. Neither The Forge Studios nor I personally were involved in Daz's own cd's.

BTW, Paul, Here's what I get when I try to e-mail you: This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. A message that you sent could not be delivered to all of its recipients. The following address(es) failed: phl@neont.com: SMTP error from remote mailer after MAIL FROM: SIZE=13036: host vopmail.cboss.com [199.190.100.20]: 550 5.7.1 This system is configured to reject mail from 159.134.237.20 (Host blacklisted - Found on Realtime Black List server 'orbs.dorkslayers.com')

(I'll respond to the questions in your e-mail here as well.) The Poser version is 62 MB and the BVH version is 10 MB. no need to worry about getting disconnected, you will be able to download it again - Digital River have a good service. However, I would recommend using a download agent like Real Download (from the Real Player people) which allows you to pause a download and resume it some other day or pick up where you left off if you lose your connection. Daz have broken the contents of 2 CDs - PoseAmation volume 1 (poser version) and volume 1 BVH version - and assembled them into their own packs of files. All of the PoseAmation 1 content is there, so don't worry about missing out on stuff if you chose that route. However, it is much more expensive to buy all of their packs than it is to buy the full cd. To answer your e-mail question, the Poser version includes Poser scene files (pz3) and library files (pz2) for every scene as well as props, the HTML manual and a couple of character models that were donated for volume 1. The native poser scene files and library files include facial animation as well as the material settings and textures (if any). The scene files can also contain sound, window size, light and camera settings, background image, multiple characters, deformers and any other Poser element. BVH files only contain joint movement information so no animation of morph targets, like facial animation for example, is recorded. The other fundamental difference is in the keyframes and accuracy. A poser file contains only the number of keyframes that the animator sets, a BVH file is 100% keyframed which can get pretty heavy on your computer if it's a long scene. Having said that, I made a fundamental error when producing PoseAmation 1: I hadn't considered downloadable content at that point - we were just going to be shipping CD's, so we saved the files 100% keyframed in order to lock the animation in place, allowing users to change elements of a scene without screwing up other parts accidentally. Of course, as I mentioned, it makes the files rather large. This is another reason why the Poser version is 62MB - too many keyframes. Unzipped, PA1 is a whopping 648 MB!!! Volume 2 is different in many respects: We have kept the number of keyframes to a minimum, allowing us to fit 5 times as many scenes onto the cd. It includes a few incredible character models! You may have already seen the Scritt, Sea Serpent, Water Elemental and Dragon Rider on our site and Daz's site... but we kept the best for distribution with PA 2 only. :') Also, the quality of the animation in PA2 is much higher that PA1 simply because we've improved our abilities and become more accustomed to 3D animation. We're from a traditional background: Den was a comic artist, Fantasy Painter and designer that moved into 3D. In fact, he was one of the original TSR guys, you might have been into the Dungeons and Dragons stuff when you were younger - that was Den. David Rosler was a stop motion animator that found his way to computers somehow. I was a traditional cel animator that stumbled into Poser 4 years ago. BTW, there are detailed instruction included that explain how to install and use the files as well as the PoseAmation manual which gives some animation advice and Poser advice. Chris

When we set up the on-line shop with Digital River, we had to stop selling physical cds for legal reasons. PoseAmation is produced here in Ireland but the sales are fulfilled by Digital River in the USA. We can't ship cds from Ireland on sales made in the US without breaking a bunch of import/export laws. We could set up a physical shipment service with Digital River but it cost thousands. We may produce physical cds again but not right now, sorry.

Attached Link: http://www.digitalriver.com/dr/v2/ec_MAIN.Entry17c?CID=0&PN=21&SID=22676&PID=728856&SP=10007

Paul, I have tried to return your email messages several times but for some reason, your server has my e-mail address blacklisted, so the messages are being rejected. I just received your message pointing to this thread - clever lad! I have tested the link and it seems to work fine from here. I checked the code and it is definitely pointing to the correct file, I don't know why it isn't working for you. I've attached a direct link. BTW, Credo no longer carry PoseAmation - I don't know why they still advertise it. Ste, I think that you need to refresh your browser window. Wer have updated the news section twice since November. The latest was on June 18th. We will be making another announcement very soon. :')

One of the better schools out there for learning CG is Van Arts in Vancouver, Canada. There are actually books on choosing the best school for CG available on Amazon.

Thanks, that's good to know.

I'm interested but the Join the Webring link on your site is a dead link. Fix it and let me know when it's up. It should be a good ring, I'll do what I can to promote it. Chris Derochie (the PoseAmation guy)

It sound like your memory isn't being dumped properly but I doubt if it's Poser that's hoarding it. Do you have any other applications running or TSR (terminate and stay resident) programs in your system tray? They could be the culprit. Chris

Attached Link: http://www.the-forge.ie/images/order_form/textecom.htm

Try PoseAmation. You can download individual scenes which include the .pz3 AND the .pz2 and .rsr as well as any props that are needed. The link above leeds straight to the online shop, you can get in the front door here: http://www.the-forge.ie

Hi, I made the PoseAmation trailer with Poser 3 using Bryce renderings in the background right in Poser. This works great unless the characters need to interact with the scenery or if you want shadows to animate over the 3D background. Chris