Is everyone in touch with tha awesome potential of animating Poser characters within the worlds strangest surrealistic 3D environment(Bryce)? I know that a third party is working on just that, but it will just take the full market value out of Poser and Bryce if it isn't Metacreations (or a company purchasing both programs soon) that developes this capability. Shortly thereafter, most new 3D animations for TV will be Bryce/Poser at the core. Remember who told you. -Gear

It doesn't look likely that Bryce and Poser are going to the same company. Bryce is going to Corel, while Poser's destination has still to be announced. I doubt Bryce will ever be used for mainstream TV production, unless it is revised at the core so much that isn't really the same program anymore. Bryce is far too slow at rendering, and too restrictive in other areas, to suit TV use. 3D Studio Max, Lightwave or Maya are far more likely candidates for TV CGI work.

With the rapid convergence of broadcast tv, cable tv, and the internet, it won't be very long before there's 1000 channels and nothing to watch. Someone will have to be producing programming for those channels and my bet is with the little independant producers using off the shelf products like Poser and Bryce make semi-cool animation series and features for broadcasting. Speed is not important to the independant, final product and total production cost is! Products like Poser and Bryce offer the little independants the ability to compete with the big boys at a fraction of the cost. Ultimately the broadcasters, cable and network, will start looking at the smaller production companies for fill products just because they'll be a whole lot cheaper. The Asian market has already realized this and major opportunites exsist for sell absolute TRASH to them just because they want Western products to broadcast.

Well I don't know about all that other stuff but I do know someone has already managed to "animate" poser figures in Bryce. She uses a workaround to the whole process. I've written more on the subject over at big-i.com but anyone with a subscription to "3D Artist" magazine can read the actual article in their latest issue! As for the Bryce in TV, I would never count it out as I've already gone to my local Sears and have seen Poser figures in ads. I've also seen posers in movies, tv shows, and once I saw not only the Poser male and dog, but an environment done ENTIRELY in Bryce 4 on a tv show called "Seven Days". Needless to say we've all encountered the "penny-pinching" boss who doesn't want to spring for costly equipment/software but wants a complete episode of "Bablyon 5". As long as this demand exists we will most certainly push towards applications like Bryce and Poser (with TONS of postwork) to get the job done. PAN~ federation-21.com

I've no doubt a few small independants will make stuff with Bryce, which may well be bought up cheaply by content hungry minor TV channels. However, that is a long way from being 'most new animations for TV' as proclaimed by Gear above. DAD wrote: +++++++++++++++++++++ Speed is not important to the independant, final product and total production cost is! +++++++++++++++++++++ Speed equals time, and time equals money. If an independant producer is making movies in order to finance food for her/his table, then speed is going to be very important indeed to her/him. Any profit making movie producer will tell you that the biggest cost of all is time/labour. For only about double the cost of Bryce, you can buy a program like Inspire or Animation Master. These are much better featured programs, and render ten times faster. At around ten times the cost of Bryce, are programs already used in mainstream TV CGI studios. Ten times the cost of Bryce may be expensive for consumers, but it's a tiny amount even in independant commercial movie making circles. As much as I love my Bryce, I'm not going to delude myself that it's anywhere near a professional CGI animation tool, except in rare circumstances. I certainly wouldn't make an association of its output to 'trash'. ;-) As for Poser, things are slightly different. I too have seen many advertisments (stills) using the figures. They've almost always been rendered in another program. As a quick route to simple characters in simple poses, Poser makes an ideal and incredibly cheap tool in any CGI pro's studio. The limitations of the render engine make it unsuitable for high quality animation work (although the painterly filters could be very useful). If a plugin to make Poser animations work in a program like 3DStudio Max comes out, use of the program amongst pro animators will probably increase dramatically.

As an independant producer, I'll sacrifice time on my computer for rendering with a lower cost software package than forking over the big bucks for a program that's faster but in the end doesn't really do it all THAT much better for the money. I'll render while I sleep, or do other things on my other computers... In the end I'll still save money and have bigger profits in the final sale cuz I didn't blow it on software I really didn't need.

That certainly is your choice.