Product Description: Now you can conquer each essential feature of Poser 7! Poser 7 Revealed helps you develop the skills you need to create, render, and animate scenes and projects using the amazing tools offered by Poser 7. This hands-on guide provides you with step-by-step tutorials for each task, followed by projects that allow you to use each new skill on your own. Examine each feature room of Poser, including working with materials, cloth, hair, cameras, and bones. Put the power of Poser 7 to work for you as you 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 the new Talk Designer to automatically sync facial animations to an audio track, combine the power of Poser 7 with other software packages, create new motions using the new animation layers feature, and import externally created 3D models to enhance the scene.
Hard to find my answers in it I'm a programmer and industrial guy who enjoys writing fiction shorts in my spare time and thought it might be fun to start cobbling simple 'illustrations' together to help set the mood for the stories. Really 2D stuff but I figured a 3D tool like Poser 3D would help create a series of modified images for different chapters. I'm of average competence in tools like Corel and PaintShopPro, which I use to illustrate tech articles and web pages. Poser's interface and paradigm is pretty tough to grasp - in part because I already know "other things" I guess and thus have incorrect expectations of how to do it.
I bought this book hoping to get myself up to speed; it isn't doing that. I think the author tried to mix in too much advanced material. Each chapter starts with a horrible "intro" which doesn't summarize where we're going - just bowls a lot of jargon at the reader. While the books seems to have nice "we did this - you learned this" like any good educational book, they seem to be "we pulled down the menu" etc (what our mouse did - not what we as brains did).
I'm sure I'll get more use from it once I know the basics, but for now it's not helping. The author should have gotten feedback from some absolute beginner trying to use the book to make a simple Poser image.
Perfect for beginners! Having purchased Poser 7 and wanting to find the easiest way to learn this massive program I bought this book hoping it would be good. Mr. Murdock has written easy to follow instructions that take you from introduction to the controls through rendering, using other software with Poser, and beyond. It has concise lessons with projects and reviews to help you practice what you are learning and make it easier to remember. This was precisely what I needed and it is going to be my #1 reference for Poser. I couldn't have asked for more.
Just use the online reference guide! Disappointed. The book really is really no better than the online reference, which comes with the software. If you are wanting to learn Poser, skip this and buy something else.
Great, Helpful book This book has taught me a lot that I didn't know was possible with Poser. It went into pretty good depth and I can't seem to tear myself away from it - I'm always going back to the book to read up on the other possibilities with Poser, and every time I go back to the book for more information, it feels like christmas :D
I am really enyoing this book.
Warmest Regards,
Fredo D Murillo Jr
Enjoy colors and resolution The technical content of the book is quite worth the buy, but I am not giving a score greater than "average" since: 1- the pictures within the book are all greyscale 2- the resolution of the pictures is so low that whenever the text points to such pictures it seems to me more like a sadistic joke rather useful information
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