Rance01 and Jafo

You guys are an inspiration and your encouragement is amazing. The people that have answered my call have been supportive and helpful just as you say they would, this is indeed a wonderful community of artists.

I will try your suggestions Rance01. I wont give in... Not with people like you in the world. Thank you all.

Hi Rance01

I appreciate your encouragement and truly I don't want to wrap up using Poser but you see there are problems that I can't resolve. I keep being told to learn more about it and read tutorials and thats the point, there are few tutorials that truly deal with Poser Animation in depth and secondly, with these bugs in the software nobody anywhere is going to be able explain the depths of it when it goes haywire no matter what you do.

I am using Poser 9 Demo version. I have been using Poser for about a year and a half and I want to do animation with it.

As I said I am a novice with it but it seems to me that you should be able to Pose fugures with IK turned on and get the pose right, kneeling, crouching etc. without having a figure fly all over the place when you turn the IK off. It simply doesn't work properly, why do they even bother making IK available with animation? Whether you use keyframes on the body or hip or whatever it still doesn't resolve anything.

My guess is that these problems run deep inside Poser and putting it right would need a complete rewrite of the entire animation side. I also think that there are so few tutorials out there for animation because they have all encountered these issues and the bits that work is what they tell you about and that's not much.

I'm all for trying hard to get my ballet dancer characters to dance together and look right even if it takes a few years but the problem is compounded with bad software and is likely to never to be achieved.

Somebody has suggested that I give DAZ Studio a try but I know nothing about that package or if it also has bugs!

I absolutely respect the people here who do make amazing animation with these tools hats off to all of you.

Hi Wolf 359

First, thank you and to everyone else who has offered advice to me.

You are absolutely right there are problems with Poser doing animation and all that you say about it (regarding the bugs and weaknesses) I have experienced and my conclusion is that there are some really serious bugs in this software which need to be addressed but Smith Micro really doesn't want to be bothered with it.

How do I know this? because I have asked them about these problems and how to get round them.

When I explained in detail the problems that I was having (as detailed in my questions)  they really didn't do anything to solve problems for me, it was as though they were brushing it aside because there isn't any way around it and guess what? They told me to come here to this forum and to get advice about these issues from the Poser community here.

Whilst I have the greatest respect for all of you people and in comparisson I am an absolute novice it is for sure that many of you do know about these problems too but being knowledgable and experienced animators and long time Poser users you can at least cope with it but sadly for me its a no no and I truly am dissapointed with Smith Micro that they market software like this and put it out with so many bugs and weaknesses for doing animation and don't even have the decency to put it right with updates - shame on them.

Well; Thank you all but after reading through these replies I am definitely none the wiser in getting the results that I want with Poser's Animation and it is fast looking like a lost cause.

I am sure there are some nasty bugs with it and from what others say here, these problems have been with it for some time and are never likely going to be put right.

So my question is this: having already aquired a library of V4 and M4 stuff from DAZ3D and some things here at Renderosity, what other package could I use that will help me to achieve some good animation with these figures and get the results that I can't seem to get with Poser?

Hi Jafo,

At first I thought that I was making mistakes with Poser using WD and it was doing some strange things but you are absolutely right there are lots of bugs in this software which need fixing. I am undecided whether to buy Poser 9 as it is?

I appreciate your comments though. Thanks

Hello PhilC

I have been using spline breaks and that certainly improves things but I just haven't understood this really.

I'll look at the links that you have given me.

I was not aware of these features in Poser 9 I hope that they resolve these problems?  I shall check them out thanks.