Poser 8 Revealed: The Official Guide

Description

Now you can conquer each essential feature of Poser X! 'Poser X Revealed', which has been completely updated to cover this latest version of Poser, helps readers develop the skills they need to create, render, and animate scenes and projects using the amazing tools offered by Poser X. This hands-on guide provides step-by-step tutorials for each task, followed by projects that allow readers to use each new skill on their own. Readers will put the power of Poser X to work as they learn how to simulate dynamic hair and cloth with collision detection, create realistic lighting with the image-based lighting feature, build custom morph targets with the new deformation brushes, use Talk Designer to automatically sync facial animations to an audio track, combine the power of Poser X with other software packages, create new motions using the new animation layers feature, and import externally created 3D models to enhance the scene.

CONTENTS:

Chapter 1: Learning the Poser Interface.

Chapter 2: Accessing Figures.

Chapter 3: Editing and Posing Figures.

Chapter 4: Adding Materials.

Chapter 5: Dealing with Props.

Chapter 6: Establishing a Scene.

Chapter 7: Creating a Face.

Chapter 8: Working with Hair.

Chapter 9: Working with Cloth.

Chapter 10: Working with Bones.

Chapter 11: Animating Figures.

Chapter 12: Rendering Scenes.

Chapter 13: Writing Python Scripts.