Novels are about people. In order to populate a graphic novel would require several dozen entirely different character morphs along with similarly different clothing, hair styles etc. In the past only a handful of the many character artists working with V4 had the talent to design characters suggesting actual people, NONE of these have made characters for Dawn or La Femme. So to enable any kind of graphic novel one would expect a steady stream of new new products indicating support from a wide variety of content artists. This can still be accomplished with Poser 11 and legacy content for V4 still for sale at Daz, still the only source for professionally designed Poser people. Sad but true

I don't know about that. I have quite a few characters for Lafemme. I just did a story with 7 women using Lafmme and V4. The only 2 that looked similar were done intentionally. And one was Lafemme, and one was v4. I know 7 isn't a lot. But I've done more that were primarily Lafemme and v4 but also included Dawn, LF2, and Alyson 2. I know there isn't a whole lot for the legacy characters, but even if you use their default looks, it would still give you 1 more character. 

I don't know what you call "actual people" and why you say the other figures aren't people, unless you're looking for morphs of celebrities. In my expiriance with graphic novels, the characters aren't hyper realistic, but a reasonable facsimile. 

It might also depend on the different morph packs. I recently created a random character generator for myself, at least for V4 so far, and only using the full head morphs from her main morph packs like Elite, ++, S4 and so on.

With La Femme it gets a bit more complicated, but she is definitely on my list for the randomizer, I just need to tweak a few more dials.

Because of all the morph packs, I think V4 will actually remain unmatched in terms of variety. You could get even more variation by including the characters that come with Poser as well.

The downside is that they do not have that many clothing options unless you use dynamic clothing or know how to adjust it.

But overall, I do not really see a problem with variation, as long as you are not sticking to just a single figure. Jessi looks completely different from La Femme, and Miki, I am not even sure if she comes with Poser by default, also has her own unique look.

Like with most things, it really comes down to personal preference.

If I seem opinionated on this matter it is because I have written one. It is right here in the gallery starting here. https://www.renderosity.com/gallery/items/3010688/01-the-mansion

It is well over 100 images has multiple characters and scenes so best read a few pages at a time following the NEWER button - You can bookmark stopping points. Created in Poser 11. Most contentatill available in Marketplace and yes V4 and M4 still there at Daz.

While I haven't done a graphic novel, I have illustrated an 8-book series with a few 100 characters (not all got pictured) and probably 80-100 images per book. Here's the main character. Yes, there are 2 with the same face. They're twins.

I'm just saying, don't limit yourself to one figure because there aren't many options for some of the others. Some of these figures don't have any extra character morphs. But that doesn't make the look they have invalid. And don't forget the fitting room for clothing swaps. Do you know how many of the women are wearing MFD, including both the little girls?

And yeah, before someone complains about the stiff posing, my computer was struggling with so many people, so I was happy to just get them all in the scene.

Wow, impressive… both of your works. :)

How long did it take to render the image? It reminds me of an old photo of my parents’ house where all the residents were standing in front of it. There were far more people than the newer apartments would have allowed.

Wow, impressive… both of your works. :)

How long did it take to render the image? It reminds me of an old photo of my parents’ house where all the residents were standing in front of it. There were far more people than the newer apartments would have allowed.

I pretty much wanted to stay out of this, but couldn't resist putting my oar in the water.  Poser is GREAT for building graphic novels.  I've done about a dozen of varying lengths (admittedly, all but 2 are unfinished and ongoing.  Here is an example of a page:

Note, that one of my characters is human and one is not.  It gives lie to the assertion that novels are about people if you limit that to human people. ;-)  Novels are often about individuals who are not human at all and the same goes for graphic novels.  The range of characters available just from the material included with Poser is huge.

In this instance, the Molly character is based on La Femme and the cartooniverse character emerging from the computer is Dr. Pitterbill by the wonderful Nursoda.

Note that, Poser is not the only application required to get a result like this!  Some work in Photoshop was helpful although not required (Poser includes tools for tweaking pictures' brightness, exposure, etc.) and setting up the page requires some sort of Publishing software (in this case, I was using Plasq's Comic Life 3.5.21).

What you do is limited only by your hardware, software and mainly by your creativity.  It's amazing what can be accomplished on relatively limited systems as Poser will run well on limited as well as very powerful computers.

Teh Mollz

MollyFootman 

Wow... It looks great 😍

Comics too and you dont need Poser 14

Agreed, Mazzam, that earlier versions of Poser are perfectly good as tools for graphic narrative whether it be illustrated narrative as in your case or graphic layout as in my case.  I don't think anyone is claiming you NEED P14 to do sequential graphic narrative but an effort to market Poser (the latest version and earlier) as a story-telling tool is appropriate.  As always, there are features in the latest version that some will find worth supporting development of the software and others won't.  I am definitely in the former category and the improvements to the Superfly rendering engine alone make P14 a worthwhile purchase for me.

As far as that goes, there are other software suites such as DAZ Studio, Blender and Reallusion's software suite that can be used for graphic sequential narrative.  I happen to be a Poser user. =)

Teh Mollz

@MollyFootman

That does look really well done! I did something years ago but never went past a concept spread. I think it still around somewhere on the Daz forums.

I do have to agree though. These programs are excellent for creating this kind of content. You may go broke getting all the assets you might need depending on the story type though. 

I've been away from 3D rendering for so long but I've been getting that itch. I was actually searching for tutorials on postprocessing and stumbled on this thread. Might be time to figure my way around Poser 12 and see what I can remember. 

I would love to see more discussion on this topic. 

I agree, Poser is good for storytelling. There are a lot of examples in the gallery. The ability to handle multiple animation frames works just as well for comic frames.

Personally, I've been using V4, M4, and various other creatures. I would love more content for the newer figures but it's easier to stick with the one where I already have a lot, including a ton of poses and expressions. So honestly I haven't really tried. And the cats have the advantage that you don't really need outfits for them (and can have pretty expressive poses). :)

The whole thing is in my gallery https://www.renderosity.com/users/ChromeStar/gallery , or at https://tapas.io/series/Pomegranate-Seeds/info 

I keep saying I'm going to go back to writing novels/novellas, but I keep working on comics/graphic novels. I don't do the traditional layouts like Molly and Chromestar, because I don't make them for paper. I just do vertical scrolls for digital view. I have a few here at Rendo in my Gallery Albums. I also have more at Tapas and Global Comix, which you can get to from my website at https://vdbooks.com. I even made a couple of short ones for my very sick brother to remind him of his youth. Mostly, I just like telling stories, probably so I can vent here or there about this or that.

Paneling is pretty easy. I'm using Comic Life which is cheap too.

But I think vertical scroll is a more popular format for Tapas. I like the possibility of eventually doing print, but I've debated either trying some vertical scroll or moving my comic to Global Comix or ComicFury that are more page-oriented.

ChromeStar posted at 12:42 PM Wed, 1 April 2026 - #4504920

Paneling is pretty easy. I'm using Comic Life which is cheap too.

But I think vertical scroll is a more popular format for Tapas. I like the possibility of eventually doing print, but I've debated either trying some vertical scroll or moving my comic to Global Comix or ComicFury that are more page-oriented.

But I do love ComicLife! I've been using it to update some comics I made over a decade ago where I simply used captions below each image. The dialog bubbles are so much better. I just padded the top of each image with a thick black border to allow for the bubbles.

In my more recent comics, I allow spaces for the bubbles before I render. I know the "correct" way is to render images in layers, so dialog bubbles can be partially placed between the background and character, but, once again, I'm too lazy for that! :D

Good luck with your layout decisions. Both have their advantages.

mazzam posted at 10:25 AM Sat, 21 March 2026 - #2998715

Novels are about people. In order to populate a graphic novel would require several dozen entirely different character morphs along with similarly different clothing, hair styles etc. In the past only a handful of the many character artists working with V4 had the talent to design characters suggesting actual people, NONE of these have made characters for Dawn or La Femme. So to enable any kind of graphic novel one would expect a steady stream of new new products indicating support from a wide variety of content artists. This can still be accomplished with Poser 11 and legacy content for V4 still for sale at Daz, still the only source for professionally designed Poser people. Sad but true

When I was working on mine, my original goal was to populate it with no Daz figures what so ever.  Unfortunately, that simply wasn't possible, and that is after literally buying every single character made for every non-Daz base mesh.  I used literally every base mesh from Don & Judy to Dawn & Dusk.  I ran into 2 major problems:

1.  All Caucasians, All the Time.  It is difficult to get a wide variety when between 90 - 95% of the characters are Caucasian.  See the images above as an example.

2. The Logan's Run Effect.  Of those Caucasians, almost all of them were in their early 20's.

3.  Our family tree has no limbs.  90% of vendors had a single look & their characters were just slight variations.  Once you bought one, you were 90% of the way there for all of them.

These issues can be mitigated, but it will take a lot of work.  The upside is after you have done the work, you will know Poser inside & out.

There are a variety of characters out there if you look. And you can make them not look related. All of these are Lafemme. 

But you do better if you use multiple base figures, if you have a lot of characters you need to make.

I have been missing from rendo for far too long, got a little AI tangent with midjourney etc, I am trying dearly to get back to my beloved Poser with all of you beautiful people and one of the best programs ever. Rendo and Poser keep me alive, and I respect everyone here, thank you all \M/ from my metalhead heart. I am replying in this thread, it grabbed my attention as relevant to my feelings. Poser 4 to poser 12, sixty truckloads of content, I guess most from here lol, Parents with Dementia and depression myself. Not asking or expecting sympathy, just stating a fact that this program and this website is an awesome community that has played a great part in my 57 years, and I am grateful to all who are here now. Doing my best to save to update hardware etc to get back into the number one software in infinity, thank you all.

I have been missing from rendo for far too long, got a little AI tangent with midjourney etc, I am trying dearly to get back to my beloved Poser with all of you beautiful people and one of the best programs ever. Rendo and Poser keep me alive, and I respect everyone here, thank you all \M/ from my metalhead heart. I am replying in this thread, it grabbed my attention as relevant to my feelings. Poser 4 to poser 12, sixty truckloads of content, I guess most from here lol, Parents with Dementia and depression myself. Not asking or expecting sympathy, just stating a fact that this program and this website is an awesome community that has played a great part in my 57 years, and I am grateful to all who are here now. Doing my best to save to update hardware etc to get back into the number one software in infinity, thank you all.

Guys are a bit harder. They don't get the love the women do. But it's still possible to get variety. These are M4 and L'homme

Something many seem to forget when making characters for stories is not everyone is the same size. Scaling and using scaling morphs help greatly.

LF, LF2, LH and LH2 are among my current favorites for the variety of looks achievable with what vendors have provided both in character sets and a huge variety of morphs and textures.  All the included people with Poser increase variety although they were never as well supported as DAZ Gen 4, LF, etc.  DAZ gen 3 and gen 4 content is good but I find that V4 has a look that is a bit harder to disguise than the recent figures (LF, etc.) but again, using morphs to modify characters and mixing and matching and (gasp!) taking textures into a paint program to modify really makes it possible to come up with unique characters.  Red Phantom's comment about scaling characters is particularly useful if you want more variety (I have a particular weakness for females shorter than the Poser ideal, being a bit of a "shrimp" myself).

Throwing the fitting room into the mix gives you the ability to dress your characters with great variety.  Costuming often makes the character.

All that being said, I wish that sales volume supported more new content creation for Poser but that is what it is. =\

To maldowns, I say welcome back!  Poser is a lifeline for teh Mollz, too, in this brave new world of AI slop. >.<  Any support I can offer is yours! =)

Teh Mollz

Thank you for the kind words my friends, I look forward to sharing new images soon, from the variety of graphic novels I have in the works, Cheers to all!

Welcome back Maldowns! 

I read the above comments with a lot of interest. I'm working on comics and I am exclusively using Poser because of its OpenGL rendering of line art. Like some of you above, I feel constrained by having to stick with V4 and M4 so much. I would love to get into more modern figures, but for me it's not the "character" options, its the lack of costumes, clothing, hair and — this is the big one for me — a lack of utility and action poses.

Yes, I am fully aware that there are SOME hair and clothing packs for LF and LH. And what's there is some okay. But let's start with a character I need for an upcoming story set in the 1980s. I need an outfit for a high school coach. That means polo-style shirt and khaki shorts. socks, sneakers and a baseball cap. I go looking through the LH stuff and... nothing. To dress this character I need to try to fit clothes from other figures (mostly M4). Frankly, Dusk has better options LH does.

(BTW, I do not want to disrespect any creator, so do not recommend Casual Him 01 or 02. Those are not useable.)

Anyway, I guess I'm in a grumpy mood as i write this, so I'm being a bit overly negative. But my underlying point stands: without more usable clothing and poses, I cannot use LF or LH figures in my workflow. Aside from character options, they just don't have usable options.

Clothing is convertible. Here's how I use the fitting room. https://www.renderosity.com/forums/threads/2984135/returning-to-poser-after-a-few-years?page=2#msg4480097 Check James' clothes for most of what you need for the coach.

Most hair can be fitted to other figures. If it's not conforming hair, often it's just a little moving and scaling. Biscuits' hair has tons of fit morphs that allow you to use it with most characters. Conforming hair sometimes can be more difficult, but you scale and move it to fit the head and then parent it to the head.

Poses can be adapted. La femme and L'homme take Mil 4 figures decently, not perfectly, because of their feet. But I use a lot of Mil 4 poses, and Judy and Don poses. They need some clean up, but I find that I usually have to adjust a pose anyhow to fit the scene. 

You link is bad

https://www.renderosity.com/forums/comments/4480097/permalink

Very strange. It works with my admin account, but not a normal one. Thanks for the correction.