Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: What would you like to see in a new Poser book

idova opened this issue on Jun 12, 2001 ยท 29 posts


atthisstage posted Tue, 12 June 2001 at 2:06 PM

Actually, Ike, I concur. When I started using Poser for animation purposes, it was like, "Okay, what do I do now?" I once spent an entire afternoon carefully working out a lip synch (not using Mimic, since the b********s won't issue it for Mac) on a frame by frame basis, only to find out that I had to put in the body movements first, then address the phenomes. The results were spectacular once it was finally done, but for those 25 seconds of 10fps animation, it was real guesswork part... hell, most of the time. Now, I use it as test work for choreographers in tandem with my other theatre previsualization services, and I can tell you, it works damn well once you get the animation stuff down. But to that: if it's going to happen any deeper, then I think CL needs to revisit the IK. I've noticed that some very strange things have a tendency to happen between key frames, stuff that really defies logical explanation when all you're doing is moving an arm from here to here. I suppose, with that, it would be nice (Curious, are you listening here?) if they could put in something that tells you when two figures have overlapped someplace. Multiple character animation right now in Poser is almost absurd because it's nigh onto impossible to tell when one figure has blended into another, let alone where the blending has taken place, until the render is seen.