Hi all,

I've been 'off-world' for a couple of years and havent delved into 3d illustration for some time for one reason and another... but i've started to re-kindle an interest and so come back to my old favourite 'rosity' :) but tell me... not much seems to have progressed in the last couple of years... peoepl are still putting out great images and awesome postwork but fundamentally the images look the same as they did back in 2004- and yet we're on poser 6 now... i still have p4pp and i cant see much 'improvement' in the images being generated by poser- what does it do now that it didnt do before? is worth investing? and can you guys point me to some notable poser artists that i can look to for inspiration?

thanks! love ya :)

The big improvement that I can see with P6 are the material and cloth rooms.  Dynamic outfits are so much better for movement poses and look more natural when rendered because the wrinkles and bunching you get, especially on tight skirts, are all simulated for you.  The material room gives you much larger scope in getting the effects that you want and not all is reliant on a texture template but rather shader nodes and displacement and what all else - rather complex and a bit daunting and very underused at the moment by many of us, myself included.  Then you move onto the lights and now we have IBL 2 or 3 lights do the job of the 15 or 20 you needed in P5 to get anything halfway decent.

I only upgraded to P6 a month ago from P5 and I absolutely LOVE P6, if you can afford it I would highly recommend jumping in and getting it.  Of course, there are P4/PP users who have upgraded to P6, hated it and uninstalled P6 immediately.

I think the quality of the finished image is not so much dependant on which version of Poser the artist uses but rather the artist's inherent talent and knowledge of the programs they utilise to create digital masterpieces.

yes, there is a great deal of improvement. in the right hands, with the right settings, figures, props, materials et al., poser is capable of much better renders now, than in 2004, IMVHO.

i would have to recommend you vist my gallery for a fine example of what you can do with poser6!!

Lots of people stay loyal to p4pro just because they are used to it, and feel comfortable with it,but i would recommend upgrading to p6 as it has so much stuff that p4pro could never do!! it is just most people don't bother to unlock the power poser6 has, combine poser6 with vue5i(soon to be even better vue6i) and photoshop with a wacom, and there is very little that you can't do.