Tomorrow, November 17th, is the big day. Poser 11 and Poser 11 Pro finally arrive! I hope you're all as excited as I am. These new versions are packed with features and content to make Poser faster, easier, more fun, more productive, and more inspiring!

My past announcements have focused on individual features. This time I want to focus on the big picture.

It is not by accident that Poser cuts through the challenges for artists to work in 3D with ease. It happens with your help. In this version we've taken an unprecedented amount of feedback and requests from the people who use Poser daily. We've taken polls, connected with the community and worked with individuals to try and make all the new features as easy to learn and use as possible while introducing powerful new capabilities.

Our new renderer is the clearest example. SuperFly is Poser’s implementation of the production tested Cycles render engine. We went through several attempts to come up with the best way to integrate Cycles that allowed for an easy transition from FireFly while enabling advanced users access to the full power of the engine. After a lot of feedback and some rough early attempts we have something that I think you will find hard to stop experimenting with. This successful level of integration is thanks to your help -- the Poser community and testers.

This focus on you, the artists who use Poser, doesn’t stop tomorrow. We're currently working on streamlining our entire process so we can be more responsive to your needs. We'll continue to take suggestions going forward to make Poser 11 better and better.

So where's Paul? Our beta testers and Ambassadors said he wasn't ready. He missed the boat for launch day. We didn't want to hold the whole show just because he wasn't ready. He's still part of Poser 11, he will just be delayed a few weeks. We wanted to get him right before his public debut. Paul will be delivered in a free content update as soon as he's ready.

Speaking of Paul and Poser content. Paul and Pauline's geometry and texture files are officially vendor resources. The license file that is included with Poser at launch doesn't reflect that change yet. It will be amended. You have permission to use the OBJ and Textures for the new Poser 11 figures, Pauline and as soon as he's released Paul to create Poser content for Paul and Pauline. When you examine the new features you'll find a lot of new content developer tools. Making our new figures available as vendor resources seemed a logical addition to the new tools we’ve added.

It's all about you, the artists. The future of Poser is yours to create as much as the art you create with it. I can't wait to see what you create in Poser 11.