Let's have a fun topic for a change. How long have you been using Poser and which version have you started out with? I'm just curious to know how long some of you guys have been using this program. :) I'm biting my nails right now while watching th Super Bowl. lol.

Since 1999... Wow like 5 years almost!! I'd have thought I'd be better at it by now!! ;) LOL!!

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Since 1998 or so, but I only played with the program for a long time. (I seem to recall that I got it bundled with something, but it's been so long I can't remember.) bonni

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hmm..more than 2 years, less than 3..started with 4, then 3 (hey, isn't that supposed to go the other way?..;) I've only in the last coupla months actually used it, except as a way to populate Bryce renders..;)

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Just over a year.

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Since 2001. I started with 4. For a while i played with the German version of 3 that I got free from a German website.

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Since some time during the previous millenium :)

Stumbled across some early works posted by Bushi, then found PFO, and ran out and got P3 - 10/98.

April, 1998.

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1999 or a wee bit sooner. Started with 4 and still using it.

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wow, Damn, I've just barely begun to understand P4 been at it for no more than under a year. I always wondered what the older versions were like. I'm just a beginner compared to you guys lol. Do you ever find yourself running out of ideas though?
Pats won so I can get back to poser. ;)

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Since about 97 or 98. Started with Poser 2, but really didn't do much with it until Poser 3 was released.

I started with Poser 2 and I'm guessing here, but it might have been around 1995 or 1996. (Maybe later, but my memory is pretty well shot, lol) Talk about a totally different interface! But I didn't really get into it till I started coming here when it was called (Poser Forum?) and Zygote, now Daz, had just released the V2 Fairy.

Nearly 2 Years now. Also you will never run out of Ideas. Soon as you understand new things in Poser, endless Ideas start to happen.

ideas? no. time? ....

thou and I, my friend, can, in the most flunkey world, make, each of us, one non-flunkey, one hero, if we like: that will be two heroes to begin with. (Carlyle)

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What's 'Poser'?? Oh, that program hogging up my whole second hard drive!!! OK, well I think it was around 1997 when I got Poser4, my brother had a copy of Poser3 on his old computer when he gave it to me but he had lost the manual and I never quite figured out what it did but it look interesting...so when Sharp Electronics gave me a corporate card and said "Go buy yourself some somewhere and learn about graphic artists" I saw a copy of Poser4 on Fry's shelf, grabbed it and have been hooked ever since.....It was something else before Metacreations wasn't it? I think it was an update that changed the name but I can't remember the original company's name anymore.....oh well, DAMN YOU CURIOUS LABS, DAMN YOU TO H*LL!!!!!

I've owned Poser since version 2. Got Version 3 from a mag after I purchased Poser 4w/Propack. Now I have Poser 5. All the while, I've only actually used Poser Pro and Poser5 though. lol.

I have used it since Poser 1 ... Around 10 years or so I think but I am not really sure. Since the begining though.

Poser 1 eh?,what features did the first version have? I started a couple years ago on Pro pack.

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Started with poser 2 didn't like, played around with poser 4 w/pro pack didn't care for it eithr, then I bought poser 5 ,been using it almost 2 years.

Four years and started with Poser 4

I heard about Poser at a computer trade show prior to Poser (one's) release. I remember calling every 2 months for over a year to find out when "that posable mannequin program" was due out while deadline after deadline for release was missed. Got to where the woman on the switchboard and I were on first-name basis, and chatted more often than I did with most of my family members. G I think it was about 11 months before Fractal Design (I think that was MetaCreation's previous name) would accept my credit card order, and even then they were obliged to offer to cancel the transaction every 6 weeks thru several more missed deadlines before they started shipping. Nostalgic Sigh Memories, memories . . . What a change from today - Those were the days, eh?

I started with Poser 1 too, but only used it to print figures that I could trace. Bought 2, 3, and 4 as soon as each came out, started making digital art with 4. I skipped Pro Pack and Poser 5, now I'm using DAZ Studio. If 6 looks to be an improvement over 5, I might give it a try. ;) SnowS

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I'm another user since the first version. I think ten years is about right ... 94 or 95-ish. What has changed? Yikes ... back then, Poser was basically just a digital mannequin that artists could use as a guide for their artwork. It was a far cry from what it is now. The figures were VERY low resolution, and I can't even remember if they used textures. No clothing either.

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AHA! I found the thread that shows Poser 1, 2, and 4 figures as well as some interface shots. We've come a LONG way! LOL

I'm playing with Poser for a little over a year now. Did start with Poser 5. And there still to little time for Poser :(

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wow! That was P1?? That looks awesome compared to P4. Edited to add not the figures but the interface. :)

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Poser 1 is the one shown in posts 23 and 24 in that thread. If you're talking about the one in Post 3, geep was having a little bit of fun with "an easter egg" in Poser 4, I think. LOL

Post number 3. That interface looks cool.

since -99 or 2000 Poser4 still using it. :)

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Bought P4 during the Fall of 2004. I wanted P5 but at that time it was so buggy that I decided to wait. I try to read all the forums and keep up with what's up. I got P5 last summer and I love it. I want P6 but again, I will wait to read how it goes before I put out the money!

I discovered P3 on the front cover of a 3D magazine about four years. I had it sitting on my PC for a couple of years with only the very occasional use. Then about 2 years ago, I bought P5, and was suddenly and incurably hooked.....

ohhh nearly 4 years. Bf liked some renders in some sites and I wondered what this poser thing was. I am addicted to it ever since.

It will be 2 years come April - Started with Poser 5 which was bought for me as birthday present. I had never even seen poser before, let alone used it. Boy was that manual confusing - thank God I found Renderosity in time to save my sanity (if not my credit card).

Think it was Poser 1. Then followed it up, but doing nothing in the program but opening and having a look. Using trail/demos. Not until about a year ago when I got Poser 5 first one I actually rendered a picture in.

About a week before the official retail release of Poser1 ... I was working in a software store at the time and specialised in graphics programs. I remember thinking at the time what neat thing it was and if they kept working it would be a very useful program some day. And now .. well we're looking at a new release soon from what I've heard and I make my rent from making stuff for Poser. Life sure does move along doesnt it. Lyrra the Ex-Evil Overlord

Poser 1 in the mid 90s.
I was teaching at an art and media school. I tried to convince the 'never been close to art creation in my life' people (them who made the decisions) that we should try 3D art and use Poser as one of the tools. No, that was too far away to be grasped tone of irony.
Anyhow, I continued working with Poser my self now and then.

Which version came with the first animals? Remember I got hilarious because I was working on my first computer horse game and there was a horse among the animals. Didn't use it though.

Those threads and images sure brings up a bunch of memories. :o)

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Since 2001. My husband found Poser 3 somewhere and showed it to me, thinking that I might have some interest in it. I still have the very first picture I made with it:) I have been hooked ever since. It's the one in my Elfwood gallery called testing the strings.

Poser 1 - from a UK personal computer world cover disc. card CD sleeve says 96. Lent the poser cd out (mostly likely to play Doom) and a mate lost it. Recall very strange blob like figure and thats it. The machine would've probably been a 486 with 4-8mb of ram. Around that time no sites like rendo, internet access was via Uni (Telnet and VAX) and later via compuserve at home. 30 a month plus call charges to a local node that could only take 6 users - so you called around to see who was going online. Did'nt bother with poser until 3 was on a disc. Now it's not the technology thats the problem it's the girlfriend discovering ho much I spend on poser stuff!

Pinky - you left the lens cap of your mind on again.

When did Poser One come out? I have been using poser since then. I have Poser 1, still have the disks and manuals, Poser 2, Poser 4 and now Poser 5. I spend hours a day using poser and it is a good thing that I am retired and the time otherwise I would be in a world of trouble. I could see calling into work and trying to explain that I wouldn't be in today because Vickie's joints had exploded or something.....

I had version one back in the day, then upgraded to 4 Like in 2001? (For $99! Thank you CL!) kinda lost interest then got into it again when Poser 5 was announced, since then I've been steadily becoming a power user. I'll quite possibly get Poser 6.

P1 Beta. I'd like to find my critique, suggestions, and bug finds. Even after 11 years I know I'm still making some of the same suggestions that Larry and staff ignored oh those many years ago. The manual and disks from P1 release are sitting on my shelf to the left.

since spring 2001 where i bought poser 4. (i had a free poser2, but only played with it, and gave up, frustrated. this was the time before i found the poser forum on the internet).

Three or four years, I started off with poser 1 free with a magazine.

Oh, well....I've answered similar questions several times in various threads.....there's certainly no harm in doing it again. Since Poser 2. I don't recall the exact date when I purchased it. I suppose that I could make the effort to look up the date, if I was interested enough. I'm not really interested enough.

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Since 1999 with the already old Poser 2

The first pic in my gallery here is dated July 2002. So I reckon about 3 or 4 months before that was when I started trying it out. Poser 4 with Propack. Started with that and I've never felt the need to upgrade yet.

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About 2000. poser 4. Got a dicky ticker so i played with poser during my recuperation phases. Now addicted but illness still dictates when i use it. Had almost a year off during the divorce thing but now it's a permanant resident on its own hard drive. Jack

December 2001...I started out with Poser 4, then propack. Now I still use Propack most of the time, and about 25% of the time Poser 5.

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I started 2000. I downloaded the demo from CL, then went out and bought a computer and ordered a copy of Poser 4 from CL. So, I bought the computer just to do Poser. Luckily I have found other uses for it too, hehehehe....

I started with Poser 2. Used it a little then got Poser 3. That would have to be somewhere around Oct of 1998. My first use of Poser was to create a Microsoft Agent character.

I first got started with Poser 3 in 1998/99. Really got interested in 2002 after the release of Poser 4 and Pro Pack. Moved on to use Poser 5 since mid 2003 :)

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Since June of 2000, when my friend ARADtech showed me what he could do with Poser I just had to go out and get it too! :D

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About 18 months and I started with P5. Never touched any other 3D package until then. I bought Vue4 recently now!

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I still have my Poser 1 FLOPPIES.... And to echo what has been stated above, I'm still trying to get a handle on this thing!

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3 years. Started out with P4 Pro Pack. Posted my first image here a few months later. Switched to P5 about 14 months ago.

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I discovered Poser August 2003 and rushed out and bought P4/PP. Spent 2 months completely stressed, cussing and tearing my hair out. LOL! Almost gave up several times. But by October I had finally gotten the hang of it, posted my first image to the galleries here, and I've been loving it ever since! :)

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I started with Poser4/PP at work in 2001. New people at work got my software so I bought Poser 4 for home. I was one of the suckers who pre-ordered Poser 5 and I have loved it since the beginning. I'm looking forward to P6...

I started on Bryce 3 and soon afterwards Poser 3.

wow, never realized just how old this program really is. What came first Bryce or Poser?

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I started with Poser 2, got it just about when it first came out, can't recall when that was, either, only it was a long, long time ago, in computer years. ;-)

Zippyozzy I think that bryce came first.

Poser 1 - about 9 years... What a long strange trip it's been :-)

Poser 1. I also checked every week for the release. Then I pre-ordered. Still have those original Poser 1 floppies.

I saw it demonstrated at the now defunct 3D Animation Conference at the Santa Clara Convention Center in 1999 and was hooked immediately. I tried to convince my company's graphics dept. to buy some copies but some nitwit consultant trainer they were using said it had a very steep learning curve. So I went out and bought Poser 4 myself. I'm disappointed in the inferior speed of Poser 5 on the Macintosh platform, as the hair room is unusable, even on my dual processor G5. But I'm a die-hard fan. And also still use Metacreations Infini-D all the time. Oh yeah, the graphics dept is eating crow when they see what I'm doing with Poser now.

I think since 1998 or 99. I had just gotten on the net and was actually searching for book companies and their requirements for submitting manuscripts. Must have been destiny because somehow my search oddly turned up some art site that had these incredible landscapes. I kept clicking links and looking and was in awe and kept seeing the word Bryce......hmmm, did a search, Bryce 4 had just come out so the price on 3 plummeted. I got it for $72 bucks. So I went searching for freestuff even before it arrived. I happened onto this site by Thrallord. I liked his work and emailed him. He mistook what I said about Bryce, and welcomed me instead to the Poser community. I had to email him and say it was Bryce that I had coming and that though I'd heard of Poser, I couldn't afford it. The man mailed me his copy of Poser3 because he'd just gotten Poser4. Oh, yes, I enjoyed Bryce, but Poser, well, I became addicted to that right quick. Upgraded to Poser4 after I saw a Koz render from P4 that I could have sworn was a photograph. Took a while to warm up to P5, but it gives me access to some Bryce like functions. I still have P4 on the laptop tho and will use it for composing a scene and then go to P5 for the Mats, Raytracing and render. Now P6 is on the horizon. Oh yeah, and P4&5 take something like 20 gigs of hard drive space. grin

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Zippyozzy I think that bryce came first. I thought as much. I had Bryce 5 given to me by a friend. I bought P4 not too long ago. I wanted to make short, animation cartoons and couldn't make my own characters out of anything, went hunting around the 3D sites and saw Poser and checked it out and low and behold, it had everything I needed for character rendering. Bought it at the store the next day, worth every penny. I'm such a newbie still, 9 months later. Bryce and P4 looked like they had almost the same interface. I like Bryce a lot and use it for background making in P4. Message edited on: 02/07/2005 23:25

How many floppies did Poser 1 come on? What facilities did Poser 1 have?

I just checked the cd I got Poser1 on & it was 1996, I've had poser in one form or another for 9 yrs O_O

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I think I still have my P1 box here someplace. I think it was 2 or 3 , 3-1/2 floppies. If you look in your p4 or p5 figure library, the original P1 characters are still in there. Render one out and be in shock. I had all the characters on my site for a bit...from P1-P5..and the DAZ characters o show the evolution. There is a big difference except from P3 to P4

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P1 came on 3 floppies. Pretty primitive and simple, especially compared to P5. Shallow learning curve.

I'll add my name to the list. 1998 with Poser 2. The hands weren't posable back then. That was a huge thing in P3 :D

lol, I really had Poser 1...yes...really Thomas

Zippyozzy I actualy preferred the older interface of poser 1 and 2 also (I actually used them), I remember being dissappointed when poser 3 came out with the newer interface that poser has now.