Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Visionaries are usually misunderstood by the masses...(aren't we all?)

zalmegra opened this issue on Oct 11, 2000 ยท 17 posts


zalmegra posted Wed, 11 October 2000 at 11:09 AM

Attached Link: "So where to now boss?"

Well, maybe I shouldn't have written to Curious Labs with my fantasies about what Poser could be. In times like this I think about George Lucas, and what he was trying to accomplish with his first Star Wars movie, and how some of the special effects didn't come out like he had planned them, blah blah blah 20 years later...dream fulfilled...millions of dollars....yadda yadda. You see, my teachers in school mentioned a few times how I was always daydreaming, and maybe my imagination does run away when it comes to intersecting it with reality. Warning:Incoming Anecdote....take cover immediately!!! I have been playing video games off and on since Pong, and finally in 1996 I decided to fantasize some more, thinking "If I could make a Virtual Reality Game/Simulation/Universe, I would make the blasted thing like ...." I still remember the night driving home from a temp job with the ideas pouring through my skull, thinking "Why am I all of a sudden having all this crash down on me right now?" I started banging away on a 486, making a design document and preliminary sketches, and now, 4 years and a few thousand dollars later, I have finally been granted a patent for my design. So what? I'm so independent-minded, that I didn't really consult with talented 3d people like so many of you are, and I shopped around on my own to grab some 3d stuff to throw together a demo to sell my invention, and ooooops....I let my expectations jump up there a bit. (Unit Zalmegra1...Prime Directive...License or sell invention to major corporation.....Failure not optional......) So yes my rambling has its reason and it seems a few of you, perhaps younger folks post replies with just a tad more emotional content than is necessary, but that's ok. Everybody has their own thing. I still use poser all the time and I realize I should just attempt to become a "Morph Master/Monster?" and, like the proverbial virtual plastic surgeon who "improves" on the Poser gods creation.....Live long and prosper. "Doctor: I think I took an overdose of Humor....now my face hurts....Yeeeheee heee haaaa......" Pose On, Dudes