So far for me I think this is going to work perfect. The setup room is going to be a lot easier to use than I thought, so I’m happy about that. It’s a shame you have to use the same head model for the face room, but that’s OK as I think I can do the same in Zbrush anyway.
I haven’t looked into rendering much yet, but I’m hoping to eventually get to that point. I tried out the Winter lady that comes with the program, and it looks alright. I’m not a big fan of the anatomy on the models, both the male and female figures, but like I mentioned earlier I wasn’t interested in that anyway.
I don’t know how it compares to Vue 5 as far as rendering. I’d imagine Vue 5 would allow for more “expansive” scenes whereas Poser might be better for up close figure renders. But that’s all my assumption, so don’t take that as any sort of definitive answer.
I haven’t tried out the Shade program though.
The documentation seems pretty good. There is a printed Reference Manual, and a .pdf Tutorial Manual that comes with the software. The printed Manual seems more technical, and the Tutorial manual seems more hands on. There seems to be enough documentation to get you started at least.
I’ll know by this weekend if this is something that I can actually use, i.e. I can pose my models without having to go through as much hassle as I had to in Maya.
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Yeah, I’ve played with Motion Builder a bit, but comparing prices of MB to Poser, I decided it would be best to go with Poser. I’m mainly looking just to pose my models, as quickly as possible, so MB would be a bit of overkill for that. I’d use Maya for this, but honestly it takes a long time to setup a rig, and have it function well. I’m not familiar with scripting, so that makes it even harder to rig in Maya. Poser just seems like a better fit for what I wanted.
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