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The Poser 5 Handbook with CDROM [Paperback]

Mortier (Author)
2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

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This completely updated edition of The Poser 4 Handbook details the latest advances in character design and animation of Poser 5 and ProPack. It begins by explaining the basics, including navigating the Poser interface and mastering the dial controls, and then moves on to more advanced features, such as applying bones to imported characters, deformation techniques, and keyframe animation. After learning how to manipulate models, animations, and scenes, users learn how to use ProPack to import their files into a variety of programs, such as LightWave and 3ds max. The Poser 5 and ProPack Handbook is a great tool for beginners and intermediate users to learn and master Poser 5.

KEY FEATURES

* Contains step-by-step tutorials for Poser 5

* Explores all of the new tools and processes

* Teaches key concepts of Poser modeling and animation, such as facial movements and expressions, altering character appendages and parts, mastering the walk designer, applying bones, developing texture maps, and much more

* Contains a companion CD-ROM with the files needed to create the tutorials in the book, plus sample images, animations, props, and demos of useful software programs

About the Author

Shamms Mortier (Bristol, VT) is the author of a variety of successful books on graphics, including Modeling in LightWave and The Amorphium Pro Handbook.

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GOOD PRICE April 4 2004
Format:Paperback
Course Materials - Fairleigh Dickinson University | Digital 3D Animation and Gaming Program
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Aim Higher Dec 9 2003
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
Do not waste your $$$ on this book. The other reviews here are accurate when they say it is amateurishly written and the visual examples are even worse than the writing. You can gain greater inspiration and learn far more FOR FREE by perusing online resources such as renderosity.com, poserworld.com or any of the other poser community links at Curious Labs' website. There you will find complete tutorials and beautifully done CG artwork to feed your mind and imagination.
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Absolutely Dreadful Oct 7 2003
By jd
Format:Paperback
Absolutely Dreadful

Sometimes ya gotta wonder how someone gets picked for a job. The author of this book is a horrible CG artist (click on the book cover photo for proof) and not a particularly good writer. He spends 4 sentences saying something that could be said in one, and then, in the following step-by-step example, he will leave out a crucial step or two. If you do manage to figure out the steps he forgot to tell you about and thereby finish the exercise, what you are left with is an image that looks like one of his - i.e. horrible. Wow, now that's bad.

I only bought this book because, after six months, I got tired of waiting for the Peachpit Press's Poser 5 Visual Quick Start book to come out. The Visual Quick Start series is a wonderful series. I have a least half a dozen of those books, and they've all been good. As for Charles River Media, the publisher of this book, all the books of theirs that I've seen or purchased have been highly doubtful.

The only reason that I don't give this book one star is that if you do fill in the missing steps yourself, and if you come up with your own parameter settings, you can make some pretty cool stuff. Poser 5 is an exciting, powerful "new" program, and this book will give you just enough information to just barely make it over that "newness" hump. Which is more than I can say about the manual that came with the program. It is even worse than this book (how's that possible?).

Bottom line - if Peachpit Press's Poser 5 Visual Quick Start book is available (now due October 21, 2003, but don't bet on it) - buy that instead. If not, and you really want some info now - buy this book and live to regret it. What a choice!

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