Hello Happy Poser People, Having a ridiculous problem that I can't lick. I'm trying to render an animation, appear to have all the settings set to Firefly (and I try Poser), but the animation appears like a sketch drawing, not a realistic render. This only happens when I export the movie as Flash, which I want. Producing a Quicktime movie is fine. I've checked and rechecked and can't just can't figure this out. I thought I checked myself by rendering a single frame (which renders perfectly) but the final animation is sketched (not blurry and pixelated like some other posts I've found here).

Post a screen cap of your render settings... might help to figure this out for you. G

Attached Link: http://maxxworks.com/screenshots.jpg

It's my understanding that when you render to Flash, Poser makes a vector trace of your render (like a cartoon). I could be wrong, but I'm just about positive of that. If this holds true, then your only choice is to render the animation as an AVI or whatever, then convert it to a rasterized flash movie (non vector-traced) using some other Flash conversion software. There was a good one I used to have a while back, called something like "WildFlix" or some such name.

Attached Link: http://www.on2.com/technology/flix-features/

Thanks for the info and the link to the software. I'm trying my hand at exporting as a Quicktime movie, then importing into Flash or Squeeze. And I'm beginning to think that a nice sketched animation might not look so bad afterall.

I agree, harlann - please post one of these sketch frames.

the only trouble with sketch animation is the constantly vibrating background, which is cool....for a little while! I've noticed that United Airlines, which has deployed sketch render commercials for several years, has figured out some way to calm down the background recently. (that is aside from their foray into 2D, which has begun to appear as well) ::::: Opera :::::

A lot of 2D we see in commercials today actually starts out as 3D. I personally know of one ad agency that I did some freelance work for recently that used FinalToon in their pipeline to produce some really convincing 2D cartoon commercials from 3D scenes. I swear, some of the stuff I couldn't tell was computer generated. Looked hand drawn. The best example of 3D that looks 2D is probably SouthPark.

You figure the Poser guys can just create a new button to export an animation in flash. You just click it and bang! There it is! Here's my first little movie. I put it on the splashpage of my site: http://www.maxxworks.com . Thanks for everyone's help and comments.