I think it's about time somebody revived this old chestnut.

In the grand scheme of things I'm far from a Poser verteran, having entered the fray back in August last year with Poser 6.

How long have you been using Poser, and which version did you cut your teeth on?

If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards...checkmate!

Read the date on my avitar and I started with P4. PP was the only version I never bought, upgrading to 5/6/7.

Since July of 1999.  I bought my first computer that March.  It took me a few months to figure out what people were using to make 3d images of figures.  I finally learned about Poser just in time for Poser 4.  One of the things that made me aware of Poser was a Batgirl fan site run by good ol' Anton. 

Heckuva learning curve.  When I started, freebies were mostly for P3.  So I started asking how to create certain Poser 3 effects.  "Why would you want to do that, when Poser 4 has conforming clothing?" was the response.  Took me bloody forever to get the hang of conforming clothing.

I'm slow.

Feeling old now, too.  A long time ago.  :-P

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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking.  He apologizes for this.  He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.

Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below.  His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.

3 years.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

September of '99 - when I bought Poser 4.

Hugz from Phoenix, USA

Victoria

Remember, sometimes the dragon wins. Correction: MOST times.

I'm still a greenhorn. I started with Poser 5 in September 2004. That's what? 2 1/2 years?

Woah!

I'm really beginning to feel like a NOOB now!

:P

If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards...checkmate!

Since 2001. I started with Poser Propack.

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Hardware: self built Intel Core i7 8086K, 64GB RAM,  RTX 3090 .

"If you spend too much time arguing about software, you're spending too little time creating art!" ~ SomeSmartAss

"A critic is a legless man who teaches running." ~ Channing Pollock

My Gallery  My Other Gallery 

'99 for me too with P4!!!!!  Sigh...  the good ol' days!

G

The GR00VY GH0ULIE!

You are pure, you are snow
We are the useless sluts that they mould
Rock n roll is our epiphany
Culture, alienation, boredom and despair

I've been seriously using it since P5 came out and Daz - damn them to hell - came out with a "you can buy our entire store for $1.99 as if you were a plantinum member and get yourself into a huge credit card debt" Daz sales folk snickered evily. Anyway, I started life as a painter with- gasp -real paints! My first digital art programs were Poser 4 (I hated it - too fake looking people) Bryce 4 and Painter 6. Now I am a slave to Poser 6 and 7. God help me! I guess two and a half years.

I guess I'm an old timer. Poser 1 ... can't remember the exact year, but 1994-ish rings a bell. 8-)

EDIT: Maybe more like 95-ish. I did find the Poser 2 CD and it's dated 1996. Back then updates were along the lines of one a year. Was Fractal Design back then, then to MetaCreations, who was then bought by several companies. Then the Poser team branched out on their own to form Curious Labs, who was then bought out by eFrontier. Same people all throughout the transition, only the names have changed. LOL

What a LONG history this software has seen!

Anyways ... here is the Poser 2 CD.  Poser 1 came on floppies, which I have long since lost.

I'm still a relative newbie.  I started w/ Poser Artist in August 2005 as I started to dip my toes in, but I wasn't content with just that and jumped for the full Poser 6 a few months later.  You can find my very first render still here in my gallery.  V3 w/ Flo Hair!

¤~Giolon~¤

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P4 .. 2002 But spent most of my time modelling with Rhino..

Handle every stressful situation like a dog.

If you can't eat it or play with it,

just pee on it and walk away. :-)

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I wouldnt have to manage my anger

if people would manage their stupidity......

 

4 years now, started with P5 and now progressed to P7, still a newbie lalalaaa.

Despite of what my joining date says, I started using Poser (ProPack to be precise) after my 23rd b-day - during early Autumn of 2004 that is :)

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Outdated gallery over at DeviantArt

Fics at FanFiction.net and Archive of Our Own (AO3)

**About 18 months for me, started with Poser 6. I still haven't learnt half the stuff in the program!
**"Poser 1 came on floppies, which I have long since lost"
Floppies, those were the days hey, LOL!

Yikes, this is scary, 1998....okay spent alot of time in front of pc....where has the time gone. I was a true beliver in Bryce and Vue, that is what pointed me to Poser...had bought Poser but really would not use it due to all the smoothing of models, thought it was a stupid program, but little by little it grabbed me.  Now it is almost the only software I use. Sharen

Quote - I How long have you been using Poser, and which version did you cut your teeth on?

 

Not exactly sure any more.

The late great Don Tatro got me hooked on 3D.

My first exposure was with  Poser 3.
Poser 4 hadn't been released yet.
I skipped Poser Pro
Have since gone from P4 to P5 to P6 to P7.

Cheers
DR

"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves."
Thomas Jefferson

Early November 2006.  Yep, I'm a noob.

My Freebies

I think it was 2002, with Poser 4.

I joined here in Oct 2002 but I lurked for ages before making my first ever post in May 2003.

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"you are terrifying
and strange and beautiful
something not everyone knows how to love." - Warsan Shire

Well Deecy makes me feel a little better about my status. I started way back in November '97, when Poser 1(!) was given away on a Computer Arts cover CD (Issue 11, I think it was). Been using it ever since, and I've had copies of every version except for 7 (didnt' get Pro Pack either - went straight from 4 to 5). So whilst not quite as venerable as Deecey, I'm certainly feeling a little long in the tooth about now. :)

jonthecelt

I got Poser 4 about 2 or 3 days before the date on my avi. (iI borrowed the money for it from my then 15-year-old daughter - who is also a renderosity member under the name Posertte - yes, my kids frequently had more money than I did).

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Jeff

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I started with a free copy of Poser2 late in 2000, upgraded to Poser4 early
in 2001, now approx. 6 years ago (ooops).
I am still using Poser4 for most of my projects, did my first steps with the
free copy of Poser5 (esp. material room, mirroring and water surfaces).
and - yes - I am still refusing buying Poser6 or 7 ...
(guess I am waiting until Poser10 is released and get a free copy of Poser7 -
LOL)

I started with Poser2. I forget the year. I think Poser 2 had just been released.

I didn't start with the online scene till 1998. I started with Comic book interests.

-Anton, creator of Apollo Maximus
"Conviction without truth is denial; Denial in the face of truth is concealment."

Over 100,000 Downloads....

Off and on threw the years. I started with poser 2 and I'd post a few pics here and post in the forum  but I really didn't get in depth into poser until the last year or so up until now I've been mostly playing. I have more time now that I've retired from the service and I can put more time into really
understanding the program as well as using my 3D modeling program.

My Facebook Page

I started collecting freebies for Poser in November 2003, not being sure I'd be able to learn how to work with this 3D stuff. Then I bought Poser 5 in March 2004. I bought Poser 6 before it was released and I bought Poser 7 to get the runtime but I uninstalled it after I took what I wanted and still use Poser 6. ;o)

France, Proud Owner of

KCTC Freebies  

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Hello to all you Poserites out there in Poserland.

Gosh, has it really been almost 12 years? :blink: ____ WOW !!!
I guess time does fly when you're having fun ...... with Poser. :biggrin:

cheers,
dr geep
;=]

P.S. You might, also, like to read about The History of Poser HERE!

Remember ... "With Poser, all things are possible, and poseable!"

cheers,

dr geep ... :o]

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Since 1998, started with Poser 2, just before Poser 3 was released and moved to Poser 3 shortly after.

Artwork and 3DToons items, create the perfect place for you toon and other figures!

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?vendor=23722

Due to the childish TOS changes, I'm not allowed to link to my other products outside of Rendo anymore :(

Food for thought.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZw0dfLmLk

Don't remember the year, but I pre-ordered Poser 1 from some software catalog. 

It was not to be, however, there was a problem with the joints (but at that time no one, including Fractal Design had a clue). Spent a few weeks faxing printouts of the renders I was getting. Last call I got from their tech support was that someone else had the problem, so I was officially removed from the insane idiot customer list. I moved, lost touch, forgot... and then maybe a year and a half to two years later, picked up Poser 2.

kalonart.com

Poser 3

Poser 3 for me too. In fact I was having a sort out on the weekend and found the back up discs for it, as well as Poser 4 Pro.

Also found my first ever 3D image with Bryce2. Man it was bad :laugh:

PORTAL

Still a struggling noob here.  Got Poser 5 for a Christmas gift December of 2005...and I think Poser 6 hit the market, what, 3 hours after I installed P5?

Couldn't understand it to save my life when I started playing around with it and found a  beginners class at LVS online with Brit teaching it. (and a top notch, friggin' awesome teacher she is!)  Hooked from the first day of class and have been in debt since.

I started with Poser 4 early in 2000, I think. Or was it late 1999?  Shortly after Poser 4 came out. I skipped PP and P5 and got re-ignited when Poser 6 came out. Now I am a happy Poser 7 user.

A ship in port is safe; but that is not what ships are built for.
Sail out to sea and do new things.
-"Amazing Grace" Hopper

Avatar image of me done by Chidori. 

@ BillyGoat

Hi, how ya doin'?

;=]

Remember ... "With Poser, all things are possible, and poseable!"

cheers,

dr geep ... :o]

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Started in late '97, with Poser 2, so it's been almost ten years.  Had every version except PP.

Do I get a gold watch? ;)

John

June 2006, with P6.

I bought Poser when the first one came out and kept upgrading... I forget how long ago, it was before I had internet, one relationship, two jobs, three cars, photoshop 4 and I don't remember how many computers ago.
But, I never used it a whole lot because I got into different type of 3D, Landscape, Terrain and product visualizations. 
In the last year or so I started picking it up again and gtting more into characters.  I'm not sure how to count a dozen or so years of it sitting on my shelves collecting dust...

Hi, my namez: "NO, Bad Kitteh, NO!"  Whaz yurs?
BadKittehCo Store  BadKittehCo Freebies and product support

1999 when P4 came out, then upgraded to P6 when it arrived on the scene. Still use P4 a lot.

FlyByNight

2001, using Poser 4. :)

MS Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1
Intel Core i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz, 12.0GB RAM, AMD Radeon HD 7770

PoserPro 2012 (SR1) - Units: Metres , Corel PSP X4 and PSE 9

Poser 1

Still have the floppys.

I think it was spring of 1998 I got Poser 2. I was in the process of making a Microsoft agent character and Poser looked like it would help... but it didn't help much:) Poser 3 was released and I thought i was in heaven... 2 months and I don't know how many hours later, I had a Microsoft Agent character. At the time she was the first female human agent character and I was suffering from an addiction  that to this day I still haven't found a cure for:)

Ed

I discovered Poser in August of 2003, purchased ProPack and two months later I posted my first pic here at R'osity.  I later upgraded to P6 and I'm now using P7. 

"You don't know what we can see
Why don't you tell your dreams to me
Fantasy will set you free." - Steppenwolf

I lurked around here for a long time before getting hooked on Poser 4.  It is exactly two years this past Monday.  My first render is still here! LOL!  Time's flown, but I finally learned how to build my own conforming clothes! Yaaaaay!  Painted, drew, sculpted and wrote for years before finally getting into 3d.

I had a friend who was a computer teacher who kept talking me out of trying 3d art because he kept telling me, "It's too difficult!  You can't do it!"  He was a REAL rocket scientist, physist and a bona fide genious with a Phd and everything.

After a week of using Poser 4 and Vue 4, I told him to go to hell, and haven't looked back since! :lol:

I cannot save the world. Only my little piece of it. If we all act together, we can save the world.--Nelson Mandela
An  inconsistent hobgoblin is the fool of little minds
Taking "Just do it" to a whole new level!   

I read a blurb in a computer magazine about the imminent release of Poser (aka Poser 1) in the early 90's.  I recall placing monthly calls to Fractal Designs as deadline after deadline passed for over a year before the young lady who always answered the phone (Barbara? Dianne?) would finally take my pre-order. Another 8 months of calls before it was finally shipping, and I got my copy.  Played with it thru 2, 3, 4, and finally got fairly serious with P4/ProPack.  Bought P5, 6, and now 7, but still most familiar with P4/PP.
Updated to new computers at least 9 times since then, but I still have 5 or 6 versions installed even now.

I think I take the prize. Poser 1, early 1992 on...hell, what was the Mac version back then? Mac Classic, I think.

I'd rather stay in my lane than lay in my stain!

How long? 

Far far too long.

Wich version was the first?

Poser 3

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein

Free the freebies!

Poser 3 and still a serious noob.

Almost 2 months. I got the program last year and tried for a second and became intimidated. Recently decided to give it another go.

2001 with P4, PP, then P5, P6, and soon to P7. so about six years. and it has been quite  a ride, I useto post a lot, now it is mosly print work.

I got Poser 3 on a magazine cover CD in 2000, I think it was; I registered at the old Poser Forum Online in December that year. I registered at Renderosity under my real name at about the same time (I'm logged in as both me's right now, look quickly, oh too late, you missed it!) - but I can't find my registration date. I won Poser 4 in a contest, and Poser 5 was the first version I actually paid for. Nearly put me off for life. ;)

Yeah, bob, I remember when you were still using P3. (at PFO I was singing_brakeman, back before I established the wheatpenny id that I now use in most places online).

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2004 ?  I started with Poser Artist, methinks.

Eternal Hobbyist

 

Played around a little with the P4/PP demos, liked it, and decided to go for the full product. This was only a month or so before P5 was released, so I decided not to buy P4/PP, but preordered P5. Must have been early 2003 or so.
Since then I upgraded to P6 and P7.
My interest in 3D started with Bryce. Version 2 came with a computer magazine (can't remember when). 

Funny thing is, I almost immediately started with dynamic cloth and dynamic cloth creation.

I still have to learn a lot about Poser, especially about the material room, hair room and face room.

The pen is mightier than the sword. But if you literally want to have some impact, use a typewriter

My gallery   My freestuff

Bought a copy of Poser2 from a computer store that was going out of business. Built my first original character using P2 using the body replacement technique. All the parts were created in a software package called Arena3D and imported into Poser as DXF objects. Individually alligned to the correct body part and then replaced one at a time to create a new character. So I can officialy say I've been creating original content for Poser since version 2. When P3 came out I jumped into using PHI files and quickly figured out how to make fully functional original characters. My first full character that I offered for free to the Poser community was Anti Pasto, an alien bipedal ant creature. At that time most people were only doing sinple props for Poser and, although I cannot confirm it, I believe it might have been the first original Poser character offered online for download. The website I offered it on was shut down after three days due to bandwidth draw ... ah, those were the days. LOL 

Hmm, for myself, since the orginal P4 came out but I was never a Poser fanatic in the first place. I started with Bryce and a few other apps like Studio Max. I'm not a noob however, I've been doing this as a hobby for many years.

I started when I bought Poser 2, way back in the mists of time. I was a young man, then. *P

Poser 1 Beta.  Reviewer.  Had to download it.  Received disks sometime later

Since Poser2. It's a sickness. LOL. :biggrin:

My brain is just a toy box filled with weird things

1997, Poser 2, got it for free. Sucked at it, Poser 3 came out, didn't suck quite as much at it. Then I leapfrogged to Pro Pack and have steadily upgraded ever since. Now using Poser 7.

Joined Poser Forum Online sometime in the late 90's, mostly for the free stuff. Remember when everything went haywire and PFO became Renderosity. Yes, that's right, folks. Criticize us all you want, but if it wasn't for Poser this place would likely not exist. :biggrin:

Neener.

I remember when RDNA went up, when Poser Pros went online (joined very early on), and I also remember when the original Renderotica was the adult section of Renderosity. I remember when Animotions was the 3D Comic Collective, and a few years ago talked to co-founder Maximum Impact on the phone in a tech support situation with his internet. Like'ta died!

I also remember when Radio Free Ironbear was at 3D Arena, with the good company of Dodger, Spinner, IB himself, and a motley crew of wonderfully sarcastic, intelligent folks.

My join date here doesn't jibe because I had a different logon that I abandoned for this one when I decided to "delurk" and upload something to my gallery. That first render is long gone. Grant you, my gallery isn't huge, but RL gets in the way of a GOOD time, y'know? :rolleyes:

Okay, I'm done reminiscing. Someone else can have a turn at it now.

Brynna

With your arms around the future, and your back up against the past
You're already falling
It's calling you on to face the music.

The Moody Blues

Dell Desktop XPS 8940 i9, three 14 tb External drives, 64 GB DDR4 RAM, NVidia RTX 3060 12 GB DDR5.
Monitor - My 75 Inch Roku TV. Works great! 
Daz Studio Premier 
Adobe Creative Cloud - newest version

What ever happened to Quill?

Oh jeez, I forgot about Poser 2! I started with it in 1998 but didn't like it much. Poser 3 was such a vast improvement so I finally got serious about Poser with that version but it wasn't until Propack was released that I got fully involved with content development and everything.

All in all it really has been a long time - where did the years go? :)

• Rick

I started 2001 with Poser 4. bB

Since Poser 1. Either 1995 or 1996, I can't remember. It came on about 4 floppies at the time.
CD ROMs were still a bit new.

I, like Kalon bought Poser 1 as a pre-order from a computer catalog. I thought I could use it to design people doing exercises for my Physical Therapy Clinic. It was too cumbersome and the figures were too geeky for that purpose. I kept buying upgrades but not using it much until I started writing a medical book. I did some illustrations with Poser but mostly used it for diversion and stress relief from writing. Once I started to add up how much I have spent on Poser stuff but when I got over $2000 I decided I didn't really want to know!