Attached Link: RWBY White Trailer

If you haven't heard of Rooster Teeth, well, time to fire up the interwebs and see what its all about. :-)

Rooster Teeth has the largest youtube channel of any non-pop star out there. Top twenty all time. A billion views on Red vs. Blue alone. Billion with a "B". Their business 24/7 is creating content, as in animated shorts, comedy, sketches... And they have audiences and viewership numbers that make the Cartoon Network blush with envy. And the connection to Poser? They use it. In a major way.

Red vs. Blue? All Poser. And they have a new series RWBY. Cut and paste "All Poser". Red vs, Blue has been all Poser for the last five years. And RWBY is all Poser as well. BVH Mocap data. Compositing in non linear video tools. Some video effects. But Poser through and through. We're pretty jazzed to see what they have been up to.

If you want to see too, check out these these youtoobs

Attached Link: RWBY Red

And another

Attached Link: S8 Tex fights Red and Blue

And the grand daddy, Red vs. Blue...

Monty Oum the lead animator, along with Shane Newville and the rest of the team at Rooster Teeth turned the game of Halo into the top-dog of Machinema by getting Microsoft to lend them the game assets so they could rig and animate them in Poser to do comedy.

My favorite of the bunch is this one.

WOW! Way cool. :)

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Any chance the next version of Poser will have better realtime shaders/effects? Poser 9 and Poser Pro 2012 are already a vast improvement over previous versions, but there are a few things lacking in the realtime shaders, namely reflection maps and some type of SSS. The ability to also use custom GLSL shaders (at least for Poser Pro) would also be very appreciated.

Among things currently implemented, but in need of improvement, the shadows and transparency handling could use a little sprucing up :)

That Red vs Blue one is very funny :) Both my 16 month old son and I just laughed our asses off at it.

He's a big fan of any kind of physical comedy ;)

Very well done!

I loved it. I think I've seen something similar to the RWBY White trailer before, but this was nicely done.

And I laughed my ass off with tex vs red and blue.

Very nice work too!

If I had a nickle for ever time a woman told me to get lost, I could buy Manhattan.

Way funny, be interesting to know what sort of system specs they create that stuff on :) and whether it was rendered in FF or an external engine.....

Impressive, but don't say all Poser, it's so very obvious it isn't, but impressive nonetheless.

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Quote - Way funny, be interesting to know what sort of system specs they create that stuff on :) and whether it was rendered in FF or an external engine.....

Their 3D content sequences with full lighting, stage and set are rendered in Poser; in the case of Red vs. Blue, it's using the realtime preview rendered as a sequence of images. For RWBY it's a composition of toon shading preview renders, custom materials, rendered in layers and composited in post.

Quote - Impressive, but don't say all Poser, it's so very obvious it isn't, but impressive nonetheless.

In my staccato literary style I do say "all" but in paragraph three dig in a wee bit deeper and credit effects in post. All their starring role 3D elements are done in Poser, using custom tweaked or custom rigged characters. Monty Oum, the creator is doing at least one open panel for us at the RTX (Rooster Teeth's fan event) show this July in Austin, Texas. He goes into full detail on his use of Poser. It's remarkable to see how he gets these out of Poser. They have a site license of Poser Pro and have trained a dozen team members on Poser to execute new episodes for several concurrent series. They also have their own on-site mocap stage and Monty, along with a few martial arts friends actually do the choreography and fight captures.

How about "All" with an asterisk? ;-)

Quote - How about "All" with an asterisk? ;-)

 

That would be much better :biggrin:

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Quote - > Quote - How about "All" with an asterisk? ;-)

That would be much better :biggrin:

 

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Quote - Any chance the next version of Poser will... jkgrth .... lmbbvcx ..... ssss .....

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I don't understand how red vs blue could have been done in Poser.  I thought it came out before Poser got weight mapping (which looks to be in use here).

 

Quote - I don't understand how red vs blue could have been done in Poser.  I thought it came out before Poser got weight mapping (which looks to be in use here).

The original RvB was indeed pre-Poser. When Monty joined the team he transitioned them to Poser, I believe its about five years now. Since that point they may model in other apps, but it's rigged, materials applied, animated and rendered out of Poser.

They can do some cool tricks as a byproduct of their relationship with Microsoft (owners of Bungee and the Halo property) including using direct game assets like charcaters, or doing screen caps of architectural elements which they then texture and place into Poser for the interior and environmental scenes.

Here are some snaps I shot at RTX last summer, during the Monty Oum R vs.B panel. Note the images on the screen are from the Tex S8 fight video I posted above.

note the classic Poser ground plane above :-)

interesting file extensions eh?

I think I recognize those iconic folder tab UI qwidgets. :-)

Attached Link: MegaMan X Fanimation from Shane Newville

Shane Newville, another of the Rooster Teeth animators created this fanimation in Poser, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Capcom's Megaman. You guys might recognize some of Stonemason's set work in this one.

Now that's clearly poser.... "all" of it :biggrin: Imoressive, must have taken quite a while to create.

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Quote - Now that's clearly poser.... "all" of it :biggrin: Imoressive, must have taken quite a while to create.

 

You'd think so, bu you know what's weird? They create episodes at an epic pace.

Because they are primarily using realtime preview renders to give the final video that "gamey" look and feel, they actually move really quick. Much faster than a typical studio using harder to use, more exclusive tools. They are also able to set up lots of assistants to work in Poser on the support components. That's not as easy to accomplish with high-expertise-barrier tools like Maya or Max.

Well, the new openGL features such as hardware shading and hardware AO, make a lot of difference compared to the previous poser versions, even on my 'crappy' laptop gfx card. I can imagine that having a machine with a good graphics card can do such excellent stuff as this. Still, having said that, I couldn't do it fast at all.

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Ratings to me, never really meant "better" Try comparing a lot of the terrible animations to how it use to be for my generation and the animation today loses. The 1990s seen a major wave of hardcore animation, granted CGI and 3D animation is still very rare because not too many people use it. Imagine if a lot more movies were using the Technology the studio that worked on the first two CGI Resident Evil films, or the makers of the Final Fantasy Advent Children film. Now Poser can never compete with that, Octane maybe but Poser is only good for one thing and that's setting up figures. And even then its buggy sometimes, a real memory eater too which causes major slow down if you have at least 4 or more figures in a scene.  One time I tried to render in poser 7 and it nearly took me two days to get it to finish. Plus animations for Poser in general look bad. If your going to roll with animating I suggest getting some Softimage XSI skill or 3D Studio Max, maybe Maya which is pretty much the same as Softimage XSI. 

Quote - Ratings to me, never really meant "better" Try comparing a lot of the terrible animations to how it use to be for my generation and the animation today loses. The 1990s seen a major wave of hardcore animation, granted CGI and 3D animation is still very rare because not too many people use it. Imagine if a lot more movies were using the Technology the studio that worked on the first two CGI Resident Evil films, or the makers of the Final Fantasy Advent Children film. Now Poser can never compete with that, Octane maybe but Poser is only good for one thing and that's setting up figures. And even then its buggy sometimes, a real memory eater too which causes major slow down if you have at least 4 or more figures in a scene.  One time I tried to render in poser 7 and it nearly took me two days to get it to finish. Plus animations for Poser in general look bad. If your going to roll with animating I suggest getting some Softimage XSI skill or 3D Studio Max, maybe Maya which is pretty much the same as Softimage XSI. 

You really should watch the videos I linked to.

HI I dont think anyone has honestly asserted that you cant Do animation "in poser".

I think I have debunked that notion over these last 10- 12 years.

I think for some the question often becomes wether you can produce"final quality" animation productions all within in poser including full render and the answer remains a resounding ..No IMHO.

Posers ability to import  canned BVH mocap from a variety of sources and apply it to figures with "basic "poser rigging is its strong suit for sure.

Although at this point the aniMate+ nonlinear motion clip mixing system for DAZ Studio is the Superior approach.

The problem however with both poser & DS is when you have to create Custom Client guided, hand keyed animation.
this is when you see how horribly broken
is posers "all or nothing IK system is.
and how ancient its graph editor and Dope sheet is as well.
and have you ever tried to do some really dramatic animated camera move with posers cameras and the "point at "feature enabled??

From my perspective as someone who does animation for paying clients
the greatest feature poser has seen the last decade is the poser physics/ragdoll system and that is from a dedicated third party developer.

And as Cyberdene stated  rendering full quality animation frames in Firefly is just a non starter
completely impractical IMHO.

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HI I dont think anyone has honestly asserted that you cant Do animation "in poser".

I think I have debunked that notion over these last 10- 12 years.

I think for some the question often becomes wether you can produce"final quality" animation productions all within in poser including full render and the answer remains a resounding ..No IMHO.

Posers ability to import  canned BVH mocap from a variety of sources and apply it to figures with "basic "poser rigging is its strong suit for sure.

Although at this point the aniMate+ nonlinear motion clip mixing system for DAZ Studio is the Superior approach.

The problem however with both poser & DS is when you have to create Custom Client guided, hand keyed animation.
this is when you see how horribly broken
is posers "all or nothing IK system is.
and how ancient its graph editor and Dope sheet is as well.
and have you ever tried to do some really dramatic animated camera move with posers cameras and the "point at "feature enabled??

From my perspective as someone who does animation for paying clients
the greatest feature poser has seen the last decade is the poser physics/ragdoll system and that is from a dedicated third party developer.

And as Cyberdene stated  rendering full quality animation frames in Firefly is just a non starter
completely impractical IMHO.

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Attached Link: Gabe Sabloff's Reel

> Quote - HI I dont think anyone has honestly asserted that you cant Do animation "in poser". > > I think I have debunked that notion over these last 10- 12 years. > > > I think for some the question often becomes wether you can produce"final quality" animation productions all within in poser including full render and the answer remains a resounding ..No IMHO. > > Posers ability to import  canned BVH mocap from a variety of sources and apply it to figures with "basic "poser rigging is its strong suit for sure. > > Although at this point the aniMate+ nonlinear motion clip mixing system for DAZ Studio is the Superior approach. > > The problem however with both poser & DS is when you have to create Custom Client guided, hand keyed animation. > this is when you see how horribly broken > is posers "all or nothing IK system is. > and how ancient its graph editor and Dope sheet is as well. > and have you ever tried to do some really dramatic animated camera move with posers cameras and the "point at "feature enabled?? > > From my perspective as someone who does animation for paying clients > the greatest feature poser has seen the last decade is the poser physics/ragdoll system and that is from a dedicated third party developer. > > And as Cyberdene stated  rendering full quality animation frames in Firefly is just a non starter > completely impractical IMHO.

 

Rooster Teeth seems to feel otherwise.

So does Gabe Sabloff

Those are some great videos! Thanks thinkcooper for sharing that with us. (^__^)

 

I've seen some amazing things done with Poser and I look forward to people showing off more of their tallents that way with Poser.

My brain is just a toy box filled with weird things

Attached Link: "The Drop" by Gabe Sabloff

> Quote - Those are some great videos! Thanks for sharing that with us. *(^__^)* > >   > > I've seen some amazing things done with Poser and I look forward to people showing off more of their tallents that way with Poser.

Thanks man! I mentioned Gabe's name a post above. Check out this animation he created for Chris Brown's 2008 concert tour. This video ran on a jumbotron behind the stage and gave a little "back story" on why Brown was late for the show. At the end of the video, the band would rappel on stage from a superstructure above and jump into their first number. Dramatic stuff.

"
Rooster Teeth seems to feel otherwise.So does Gabe Sabloff"

Yes it is good for people to feel enthusiastic about their own projects
and Canned mocap & open GL screen blasts  can be useful for some projects but you run into posers severe limitations when you need full quality renders  in outdoor environments or quality hand keyed animation at your clients direction where you can not depend on canned BVH Data.

but fortunately there are options for getting animated poser figure into other programs for rendering  so posers rendering limitations need not be a show stopper for us who need  the speed of a pro level render engine for our poser animation work
( See my Demo Reel Sig link for Example)

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Quote - "
Rooster Teeth seems to feel otherwise.So does Gabe Sabloff"

Yes it is good for people to feel enthusiastic about their own projects
and Canned mocap & open GL screen blasts  can be useful for some projects but you run into posers severe limitations when you need full quality renders  in outdoor environments or quality hand keyed animation at your clients direction where you can not depend on canned BVH Data.

but fortunately there are options for getting animated poser figure into other programs for rendering  so posers rendering limitations need not be a show stopper for us who need  the speed of a pro level render engine for our poser animation work
( See my Demo Reel Sig link for Example)

Cheers

Yep, checked out your demo reel, several times actually over the years. When you've got any updated professional samples, please let me know.

The folks I've linked to seem to be making a pretty remarkable living doing animation with Poser. Rooster Teeth has at least fifty people on fulltime staff creating animation, video, voice overs.

I'm always on the hunt for stellar Poser animation. Good luck!

Just a quick example of what I mean by "Full quality"  animation render of an animated poser figure

http://vimeo.com/44397428

But again the interposer pro plugin Makes the rendering of poser content in  C4D quite easy  and there seems to be new option for other rendering apps appearing every few months so things are looking good for us  poser animators overall

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Quote - > Quote - Those are some great videos! Thanks for sharing that with us. (^__^)

 

I've seen some amazing things done with Poser and I look forward to people showing off more of their tallents that way with Poser.

Thanks man! I mentioned Gabe's name a post above. Check out this animation he created for Chris Brown's 2008 concert tour. This video ran on a jumbotron behind the stage and gave a little "back story" on why Brown was late for the show. At the end of the video, the band would rappel on stage from a superstructure above and jump into their first number. Dramatic stuff.

That's a pretty sweet vid. I noticed one of Sanctum Arts Phenotypes and the use of one of Stonemasons' sci-fi corridors. It also looked like they used one of the custom render or shader scripts I've seen somewhere in the Poser community.

My brain is just a toy box filled with weird things

I think the RWBY trailers are professional anomations in any sense of the word - fit for TV or cinema. A workflow of how they produce their animation would be extremely educational. Maybe the lesson I learned from the Anomaly webinar was that sometimes simple things work best is here applicable too.

 

 

Quote - Ratings to me, never really meant "better" Try comparing a lot of the terrible animations to how it use to be for my generation and the animation today loses. The 1990s seen a major wave of hardcore animation, granted CGI and 3D animation is still very rare because not too many people use it. Imagine if a lot more movies were using the Technology the studio that worked on the first two CGI Resident Evil films, or the makers of the Final Fantasy Advent Children film. Now Poser can never compete with that, Octane maybe but Poser is only good for one thing and that's setting up figures. And even then its buggy sometimes, a real memory eater too which causes major slow down if you have at least 4 or more figures in a scene.  One time I tried to render in poser 7 and it nearly took me two days to get it to finish. Plus animations for Poser in general look bad. If your going to roll with animating I suggest getting some Softimage XSI skill or 3D Studio Max, maybe Maya which is pretty much the same as Softimage XSI. 

 

I can't believe that these words come from someone who uses poser.... Poser is only good for one thing and that's setting up figures? Com'on, Poser deserves a bit more credit then that after all these years and it sure can be used for more then what you say. Seems like you're still using an old version of Poser, a lot has changed since version 7......

 

I know that animations in Poser generally looks bad, but let's be honest, that isn't Poser fault, as these videos show, that's our fault.

 

Wolf and you are forgetting one thing though, while the traditionally the big 3D applications are alwasy the ones you needed for doing animation, things are slowly changing. GPU rendering is getting more and more advanced and that technolgy is becoming available for everyone. We're getting close to where we don't need an expensive rendering engine for animations anymore. Thanks to the game industry a lot is changing.

 

Honestly, I've been waiting for the whole you cannot do this with Poser and you need 3DS, XSI and so on...... the videos show you can, now people need to learn it and that seems to be the biggest ostacle. It's not like we're using Poser 7 with a single core cpu and 2 gb of RAM, please, those days are over. We now have Poser Pro 2012, 64 bit with Que Manager for network rendering, so lot's of RAM and Cores to our disposal. The problem is that most users are still in the old poser cannot do it mindset, while we're seen plenty of examples showing us otherwise, so time for the narrow minded to break free! Throw out the old versions of poser, dump the old single or double core machine and get something up to date and be amazed at what you can do with Poser. Poser only to be used for figure setup..... I wonder how I ever did get my comic printed if it only can do that, it's a miracle that I could render printing quality with Poser then. So, wake up..... it's 2013, we're not living in the 90's anymore.

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OK, so this shows me a strength I did not know Poser had.  Will Poser grow toward this use?  When will we have parity with import/exports formats?  I want the Poser I have now, but one which works alongside Unity, iClone, D|S, and blender.  Collada, FBX, BVH both in and out, not just conforming to spec but working with the programs we all actually use.

I see your point, but honestly, I don't think the majority of poser users goes beyond poser at all, so is it worth a huge investment if only a handful of people are going to use it? You may use those programs, but we all sure don't, there are many different applications people use with Poser, giving full export/import features just isn't possible for what we're paying at the moment. Where does it end? Why only these? Why only Unity.... there are so many more game engines people use... I want full gamestudio A8 support, AGK, FPS Creator, DGS, CryEngine, Torque3D and so on.

 

With all this, let's not forget that current licensing of content will be a major problem as well, you couldn't use most of it in a 3D game engine at all and the use of Poser would be very limited when it comes to those engines. If you want to use game engines there are much better options available then Poser. So once again the question would be, is it really worth the investment.... personally I don't think so, the poser team is much better off creating features and improvement we all can benefit off, not just a few people.

 

I'm not using any of those applications myself, I'm using poser only with Vue and that works very well. E-On and Smith Micro have done a good job in working together. Working together with the others you mention may well be a tough job, I'm sure the poser team would like that, but we have to consider the other end of it all.... licenses. When it comes to D/S, forget it. DAZ isn't willing to give anyone access to their native format without paying a lot.... per seat, they've become very money hungry lately. I've gone back and forth to D/S through Collada, works great if you go from Poser to D/S, but the other way around is a huge problem, a lot of the D/S export features are simple not functioning properly, not only with poser, but with more applications.

 

I've got Collada import and export and the little bit I've used it, it worked well, but others may have done different things and may have other experiences. Also, if you have Poser Pro, I would say one of the import/export plugins should work with all of the mentioned applications, with exception of blender perhaps, don't know that one.

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Thanks for sharing, Coop!

Nice teaser designs, excellent staging and interesting characterizations for the first two members of this group. As well as excellent synching with the score. These guys are -good-. This is the kind of thing that puts big, big cracks in that 'Poser is a Toy' meme.  

"Wolf and you are forgetting one thing though.........................
GPU rendering is getting more and more advanced and that technolgy is becoming available for everyone. We're getting close to where we don't need an expensive rendering engine for animations anymore."

I am well aware of all of the advances in rendering technology.
How many have SM implemented directly inside of poser??
( unbiased,GPU,CPU)
Blender has done so with its free program

Actually we never needed "Expensive" rendering engines for animation per say.

But if you have read any of the threads here
from people who have tried to use poser pro 2012's IDL to render animations you already know that the latest version of poser is not really prepared for lengthy animation with quality any higher than Open GL screen renders from with poser itself.

"So, wake up..... it's 2013, we're not living in the 90's anymore.
"

Indeed we are not
but posers IK system*( such as it is )* and its graph curve Editor clearly still remains in the 1990's.

yes it is nice to be able to quickly import some raw mocap with feet ice gliding all over the floor and figures gliding down stairs wells with ZERO foot contact with the stairs as seen in the "red verses blue video"

But there are times when you May have to be more precise at a paying clients direction and that is when you see how vestigial posers character animation CREATION/EDITING tools remain.

I speak from painful experience with this.

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Quote - yes it is nice to be able to quickly import some raw mocap with feet ice gliding all over the floor and figures gliding down stairs wells with ZERO foot contact with the stairs as seen in the "red verses blue video"

I saw all of that, and I saw the effects of IDL rendering with the flickering shadows, and the fact that the characters were all assuming SWAT stances, but to me it didn't matter.  I engaged myself in the story, and the animation was good enough not to dislodge me from it.

But it was the story that carried the day.

The animation wasn't perfect by any means, but I watched the entire 10th season of Red vs Blue because the story hooked me.

Combine that with a high end studio with a warehouse full of dedicated render engines, this thing could rock.

If I had a nickle for ever time a woman told me to get lost, I could buy Manhattan.

I sorta agree with you Rokket, but how many of us can afford "a high end studio with a warehouse full of dedicated render engines", I love Poser, always have, but it has its' limitations. The average hobby modeller or animator wants to be able to create seamless animations of a decent quality without having to step outside Poser to create it.

IMHO Firefly doesn't cut it, If I wanted to render preview quality animations I could do so all day long pretty quickly in Poser, but if you want to step up a notch to higher quality Firefly will drive you to the edge of insanity. My only hope is that in the new Poser the render engine improves as much as everything else has. I'd love to be able to create all my workflow in Poser, not talking P/W here, just quality anims, without rendering scenes in 3rd party programs.

Not Poser bashing here, like I said I love the proggie, but please SM listen to what people say, we don't all have the resources that these guys have , many of us don't even have the capacity to use Octane due to system limitations or cost implications.  It is sorta soul destroying to export your scenes to 3rd party apps to get the render times and quality that you can't get in Poser.

Quote - But if you have read any of the threads here from people who have tried to use poser pro 2012's IDL to render animations you already know that the latest version of poser is not really prepared for lengthy animation with quality any higher than Open GL screen renders from with poser itself.

 

I compelely disagree with your statement. I've read those, but we all know that between IDL and OpenGL we actually do have quite a number of good options available to render lengthy animations at reaonably speed. The problem is that we keep forgetting that IDL isn't a solution or a must for everything we do with poser. The other light systems in Poser have seen improvements as well, but render at good speed, so why not use them? You don't have to use IDL in Poser, you can ignore it and still get good quality in renders with other lights. for animation I wouldn't even consider IDL, and if I want WAY better quality then OpenGL, I've still got plenty of options that will give me good render quality with acceptable rendering times.

 

Besides, OpenGL has improved a lot in Poser and if you've got a good graphics card (even a half decent one as I have), you can boost your quality a hundred times from what it used to be before Poser Pro 2012. Most people seem to have forgotten that you can set up your OpenGL differently then it used to be, it's not on by default, but if you switch it on.... boy a world of difference from what it used to be.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZw0dfLmLk

I'm kinda with Rokket here - particularly if you lack financial resources. Trust in the core strength of your ideas or narrative (if you can't, focus on making that aspect stronger). Work with the limitations of the app & explore different stylistic approaches to abstracting materials & lighting for faster, different looking renders.

Poser is as valid and effective a tool as a stick of charcoal for getting an idea across (I've seen plenty of charcoal drawings that have rocked my world).

If your narritive absolutely relies on a more realistic aesthetic, you'll have those problems that require different levels of resoursefulness. But I think it's a useful question to ask, how perfect (or realistic) your work needs to be.

We tend to want what are considered 'the best tools for the job' - but the best tools right now are always the ones you actually have access to (financially or otherwise).

 

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"The problem is that we keep forgetting that IDL isn't a solution or a must for everything we do with poser."

No it is not
I agree

"Besides, OpenGL has improved a lot in Poser and if you've got a good graphics card (even a half decent one as I have), you can boost your quality a hundred times from what it used to be before Poser Pro 2012. Most people seem to have forgotten that you can set up your OpenGL differently then it used to be, it's not on by default, but if you switch it on.... boy a world of difference from what it used to be."

Yes the OGL display has greatly improved
But here lies the  irony IMHO:

you rightly admonished people to stop"living in the 1990's"
yet when we talk about lengthy animation projects in poser proper
such as red VS Blue project,

All we see is what poser was doing in the 1990's:
Importing BVH mocap
Single mesh custom low res figures
( where are the conformers or the weight mapped Ryan ,Alison Et al??)
NONE of the high promoted features of the "pro" version of poser"
Dynamic cloth
Dynamic hair
Sub Surface scattering
or IDL/IBL.
or even point lights

All Which if implemented would choke even the most highly specced beast machine into utter submission for a lengthy animation project to be rendered inside of poser.

"but how many of us can afford "a high end studio with a warehouse full of dedicated render engines", I love Poser, always have, but it has its' limitations. The average hobby modeller or animator wants to be able to create seamless animations of a decent quality without having to step outside Poser to create it.

IMHO Firefly doesn't cut it, If I wanted to render preview quality animations I could do so all day long pretty quickly in Poser, but if you want to step up a notch to higher quality Firefly will drive you to the edge of insanity"

Agreed

 

 

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FWIW, both the RvB, RWBY White/Red and The Drop all use an intense amount of hand keyframed animation, in combination with custom, not off the shelf BVH. That's the magic. Keyframing is where the brilliance comes in with all these samples, and there's a ton of it in all the samples, using Poser's graph and keyframing tools. Apparently, they do work. There's also liberal use of dynamic cloth in the RWBY samples.

Wolf, seriously, produce some animation as good as any of the samples I've included and I'll promote the living daylights out of it. Maybe you're creating the next Life of Pi, hence the need for uber realism, I don't know; but honestly after looking at your work, I'd suggest mastering the basic 12 steps of good animation. The tools are irrelevant if you can master those steps. Start simple, create a stellar story and help us help you to inspire more folks to do animation in Poser. That would help move Poser and its animation capabilites further forward than laundry lists of why you can't.

"Wolf, seriously, produce some animation as good as any of the samples I've included and I'll promote the living daylights out of it."

Hi thanks  for the offer but I dont Need you or SM to "promote the hell out" out of any of my work as "poser created etc"
it would be Decietful. I use poser content as part a Larger pipeline Dominated by C4D and Vray.

"but honestly after looking at your work, I'd suggest mastering the basic 12 steps of good animation."

Well my paying clients And My IMDB listing
for my recent Paid character work in this well received indy  film  festival project suggests otherwise
http://skateveer.com/

"The tools are irrelevant if you can master those steps. Start simple, create a stellar story and inspire more folks to do animation in Poser. That would help move Poser and its animation capabilites further forward than laundry lists of why you can't."

It not a an Issue of why I cant it is not even an issue of posers Current CA tool set (limited though it may be)
in fact to be quite honest with you Steve, poser& Daz's ability to retarget Character motion is actually SUPERIOR to my  $3500 Dollar "high end" program( C4D) ... no exaggeration

honesty I wont even bore you all with the tedious bone renaming processes it takes to get some character motion from one rig and apply it to another in C4D.
and poser ( with paul's  affordable physics plugin), creates AMAZING ragdoll simulation on demand that  leaves the C4D users over at CG society.org in frustrated& Embarrassed silence.

But the fact remains that the "pro   features" you people are touting in poser pro 2012 are only usable for stills
and your  All or nothing IK System remains BROKEN

So go ahead get testy, Smarmy and throw insults at my work all you want but it is the truth and everyone here knows it sir.

your render engine is NOT really designed for animation renders with any of the aforementioned "pro" features enabled.

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Quote - So go ahead get testy, Smarmy and throw insults at my work all you want but it is the truth and everyone here knows it sir.

I've googled Skateveer several times over the past since you've been listing it in your signature, hoping to see some cool animation. (Poser with C4D? That'd be awesome. I'll promote it however I can) But so far I haven't come across any. Maybe some of the forum members with better google-fu can find something. I would honestly love to help the project.

I'll let you get the last word Wolf, cause I'm gonna walk away from this dialog with you. If you're mistranslating some honest coaching as smarmy insults, I'm afraid there's not much more I can add.

The floor is yours.

In the hope that we can keep this thread alive without coming to blows, as someone who is really interested in getting the best out of poser animation, can we please please please get back to the OP and the point of it, Poser gets hammered in the threads when we mention animation generally, i am guilty as charged of having my moan about the time it takes to render quality pngs. But if there are ways of achieving the fine line between quality and speed, then that's a discussion I want to continue. Just saying n not taking sides...............

"I've googled Skateveer several times over the past since you've been listing it in your signature, hoping to see some cool animation."

you wont see it in the trailers its a 45 second on screen clip of a Video Skateboarding game  I  was hired to Fake  for a scene in the movie where the the tony Hawk Wannabe Star is testing his new  Game title based on him

"'ll let you get the last word Wolf"

Ok : Steve Cooper is an Decent Chap who clearly works hard for his Company!!!.
 Apologies if my being the proverbial "Sqeaking wheel" Offended him in any Way.

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I really need to spend some more time with my copy of PoserPhysics...

In general I'm feeling pretty inspired after this thread... and the other thread about Anomaly...

Once I finish the "Rocket Bairn" outfit / character, that I'm working on currently, for the toon figure Pippin, I will have to try some animation with it... ;)

My one attempt at making some animation in Poser, to date ;)

http://vimeo.com/60965867 (contains mild, "fantasy horror"...?)

It was a while back. Didn't use IDL, but did use SSS, if I remember right. It wasn't too painful to render this one brief snippet in Firefly though, as far as I recall...

...I know my animation skills still leave a litte to be desired, sure... he he.

chris that is a really good start, well done, maybe we should have an in forum animation film club, with the condition that everything is created and rendered in poser, the wackier the better..........

Quote - chris that is a really good start, well done, maybe we should have an in forum animation film club, with the condition that everything is created and rendered in poser, the wackier the better..........

I like the sound of that ;)

It would definitely be nice to see some more focus on animation within the forum I reckon...

Course my production timelines can be somewhat longwinded... even doing still imagery. Mostly due to the fact I only get to play with this stuff now when the family is asleep, for as long as I can keep my eyes open :)

So my doing animation is going to be even more longwinded, in terms of timescales! He he...

well the good news is. I'm not getting any younger lol

How many frames per second are you ageing at though? ;)

Well, the Rocket Bairn character is taking shape... lol.

Almost got the Rocket Suit for Pippin costume modelled...

Will see if I can get my first Rocket Bairn script worked out on the way to work in the morning...

looking forward to seeing it when its done chris..........i'm ageing at 24fps and my brain has just gone into the blackhole of non creativity with the idea of the following video lol.......I set up a scene with terradome and a spacecraft like bassilisk, then i use every character from my runtime walking to the space craft, as the new kid on the block glides down on a shaft of light, i call it exodus :)

He he ;)

Well here's a "Rocket Bairn" modelling WIP Poser screen test...

...no idea how the Pippin figure animates yet... but seems like it would be fun to do something with it...

Quote - I see your point, but honestly, I don't think the majority of poser users goes beyond poser at all, so is it worth a huge investment if only a handful of people are going to use it? You may use those programs, but we all sure don't, there are many different applications people use with Poser, giving full export/import features just isn't possible for what we're paying at the moment. Where does it end? Why only these? Why only Unity.... there are so many more game engines people use... I want full gamestudio A8 support, AGK, FPS Creator, DGS, CryEngine, Torque3D and so on.

 

I assume most users do go beyond Poser eventually, but without a survey it's your opinion vs mine.  I have used Poser and I've bought D|S and iClone but have spent next to no time with them.  The galleries are full of Poser figures rendered in Bryce, Vue, Carrara etc.  The whole point of PoserPro was that it did fit into a larger workflow of other programs.  I personally would like to be able to use iClone or UDK as renderers for Poser content, because while I do like Firefly's output it takes too long to render animations.  

Why Unity?  Well Unity isn't a format, but rather a popular game engine with no entry cost.  The publishers of Shade noticed how popular it had gotten and have released a free version of Shade specifically for rigging and animating figures for export to Unity.  

I'd think any feature that would make Poser useful to a larger number of people would be worth investing in.

 

 

 

 

I liked the rooster animation of the guy in the blue suit.  I clicked off after a minute, but it was good IMVHO.  IIRC no GI nor IDL nor any of that, but in a gaming environment ($60 billions market in the states) it might be viewed with favour.  they want speed and action, and I daresay they're not worried about the minutiae of realism that we expect from single-frame poser renders here.

p.s. first thing I thought when I saw the vid - did wolf work on it?  maybe not, but those guys can translate their skills into $$$,$$$.

I render in Cinema 4D, but I compose my animations mostly in Poser, using Daz figures. In this example (below), most of the animation is mocap created in Optitrack Arena, exported as bvh into Poser. In Poser I clean up the animation, add facial expressions and hand movements, then save the animation to be applied to Daz figures in Cinema 4D via InterPoserPro.

https://vimeo.com/60618286

The walking section (starting 55 seconds) is mocap layered with Walk Designer walks. 

That said, I agree that Poser's IK and graph editor, and particularly its bvh import could use an upgrade, paticualrly the bvh import. I mean, it's just math, right? Why can't it resize bvh data to the skeleton in Poser? A clean import would be an enormous improvement for me, since I spend a lot of time trying to fix foot-skating. Fortuntely, IKinema is working on a web-based retargeting tool that shows real promise, and maybe that will help me with that.

As I see it, Poser is just one of many tools to use for animation, as any 3D package should be. Even those using Maya and other high-end 3D packages use a number of other packages in conjunction, and don't bill themselves as one-stop shopping.

Quote - With all this, let's not forget that current licensing of content will be a major problem as well, you couldn't use most of it in a 3D game engine at all and the use of Poser would be very limited when it comes to those engines. If you want to use game engines there are much better options available then Poser. So once again the question would be, is it really worth the investment.... personally I don't think so, the poser team is much better off creating features and improvement we all can benefit off, not just a few people.

I've got Collada import and export and the little bit I've used it, it worked well, but others may have done different things and may have other experiences. Also, if you have Poser Pro, I would say one of the import/export plugins should work with all of the mentioned applications, with exception of blender perhaps, don't know that one.

I'd just like a rig once-use anywhere solution.  Carrara doesn't export to Poser, Poser doesn't export to iClone, etc.  Is it Smith-Micro's responsibility to prevent someone from using content improperly?  Or as developers of the program shouldn't they try to make it as useful as possible to the most people?  I've said in the past that the program made it purposefully difficult to get things and in and out, but with the addition of figure set-up tools and continuing animation improvements the need for a range of export options should trump possible mis-use.  Assuming exported content would violate a license is like assuming all torrents are piracy.  Maybe I want to use a game engine as a machima tool to create still images.  That would be fine in many cases.

I just want someone to step up and say "we know proper rigging and morphing is difficult to learn, and we want it to be something you need only learn once whatever other programs you use".  I use Poser for figure and prop creation, but I'm drawn to iClone and the game engines for their speed and handling of large environments, and to blender for soft-bodies, cloth and fluids.

What features do we really all benefit from, aside from improved stability and responsiveness?  Some people never animate.  Some never make anything from scratch.  I've never used the faceroom.

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Thanks for the feedback below. You might enjoy the blog post I wrote about your youtube channel last February. I was really impressed by the depth of your storytelling. The link to my blog post is at the lead of this reply. Thank you!

Cheers,

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Quote - I render in Cinema 4D, but I compose my animations mostly in Poser, using Daz figures. In this example (below), most of the animation is mocap created in Optitrack Arena, exported as bvh into Poser. In Poser I clean up the animation, add facial expressions and hand movements, then save the animation to be applied to Daz figures in Cinema 4D via InterPoserPro.

https://vimeo.com/60618286

The walking section (starting 55 seconds) is mocap layered with Walk Designer walks. 

That said, I agree that Poser's IK and graph editor, and particularly its bvh import could use an upgrade, paticualrly the bvh import. I mean, it's just math, right? Why can't it resize bvh data to the skeleton in Poser? A clean import would be an enormous improvement for me, since I spend a lot of time trying to fix foot-skating. Fortuntely, IKinema is working on a web-based retargeting tool that shows real promise, and maybe that will help me with that.

As I see it, Poser is just one of many tools to use for animation, as any 3D package should be. Even those using Maya and other high-end 3D packages use a number of other packages in conjunction, and don't bill themselves as one-stop shopping.

Having "played" with animation for years now, I thought with some degree of success but in all honesty everything I have created was pretty amateurish, in some respects things are getting easier, rhapsody motoblocks, import of animate sequences,bvh. Well that's the animation taken care of lol, next comes the hardest part, camera set ups, length of clip, character and prop interaction, dialogue, voice creation,lighting, compositing, oh yes and one small almost insignificant bit......storyline...........no wonder so many people struggle. I have found the animation forum here to be helpful, but as so many of its contributors use other programs to create their anims, might I suggest that we have a forum dedicated to Poser animation. Just an idea.....and I still think we should have an animation gallery hosted on youtube or vimeo or similar..........just my thoughts.

Quote - I have found the animation forum here to be helpful, but as so many of its contributors use other programs to create their anims, might I suggest that we have a forum dedicated to Poser animation. Just an idea.....and I still think we should have an animation gallery hosted on youtube or vimeo or similar..........just my thoughts.

I think this is a great idea, for a dedicated Poser animation forum, here at Rendo :)

With a showcase channel on Vimeo / Youtube too...

Off topic, but does anyone know if that Gun Scythe is available anywhere for purchase/download?  I would love to have that.

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Consider me insane if you wish, but is your reality any better?

Thank you for all the links to the animations.  I really enjoyed them and never knew you could do all that so well with Poser.  My animation skills were never as good as my stills, maybe I should re-visit animations.

Thanks again, Steve.

"I mean, it's just math, right? Why can't it resize bvh data to the skeleton in Poser? A clean import would be an enormous improvement for me, since I spend a lot of time trying to fix foot-skating."

Hi Tim Looking forward to your next production.
Your work flow is quite similar to mine except that I dont have access to a Capture system and I use DAZ Studio's aniMate+  nonlinear motion system
to seamlessly mix various bits of Mocap to create
new motions and Export them from DS as animated pose files(PZ3).

Overall I cant complain about posers ability to import mocap or retarget motion to other rigs
because compared to C4D, poser and even DAZ Studio
Does an excellent job overall.

My number one biggest Complaint about poser animation tools is the fact that if I use IK at any point for feet pinning in an animation but later turn it off
so my figure can leap or kick it ruins any animation Data for the legs& hips completely.

its a shame the Code behind new animated constraint system in poser pro could not have been somehow applied to foot pinning with its strength being an animatable parameter.

We already know such a thing is possible with python
because of the way the strength of the ragdoll& collision
Dynamics can be animated with Paul's Excellent poser physics plugin.

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**I'd just like a rig once-use anywhere solution.  Carrara doesn't export to Poser, Poser doesn't export to iClone, etc.  Is it Smith-Micro's responsibility to prevent someone from using content improperly? **
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Hi the biggest hurdle unfortunately is the way
we "Dress" our poser figures.
right now ,other than Daz Studio, the Interposer pro plugin, that Tim and I use, for Maxon Cinema4D is the ONLY third party program that Directly supports posers "native" Conforming clothing .
OK vue sort of does but the C4D plugin allows me to change/unconform/reconform clothing inside C4D by loading it from any  runtime just as we do within poser itself

"Or as developers of the program shouldn't they try to make it as useful as possible to the most people? "

Well Ultimately thats a decision for Smith micro to make
but it Compatibility with other programs& game engines would be more easily Achieved
with Standard single mesh Figures like the Custom Spartan Characters in the red vs Blue Clip
not the modern day poser figures with multiple
conformers.

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E-on has a showcase where the regular tout the latest Hollywood blockbuster or other high end professional project that utilized Vue. The nice thing is that they feature interviews with the creators, where you learn that Vue was usually only part of a production that incorporated several other applications. I think the truth is that at that level, whether it was one application or multiple ones, the end result is often beyond what the average punter is going to realistically be able/willing to achieve.

Having such showcases is a great thing. Its good for business, especially for an application like Poser that may not be thought very capable in terms of professional production. Having something at that level that was done all or mostly in Poser is even better. The only caveat it full disclosure. As long as people get a realistic idea of what is required, go for it. You’re always going to have people who buy something based on production credits without looking at it realistically but as long as the facts are available up front, then any disappointment or frustration is their problem.

I don’t know if there’s an animation equivalent of the “Figure Creation” book for Poser but now might be a good time for someone to write one. Perhaps in addition to showcasing what folks are doing, SM might commission one.

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Quote -
Hi the biggest hurdle unfortunately is the way
we "Dress" our poser figures.
right now ,other than Daz Studio, the Interposer pro plugin, that Tim and I use, for Maxon Cinema4D is the ONLY third party program that Directly supports posers "native" Conforming clothing .
OK vue sort of does but the C4D plugin allows me to change/unconform/reconform clothing inside C4D by loading it from any  runtime just as we do within poser itself

I was under the impression that PoserFusion for Shade 13 did as well.  Since it doesn't look like Poser will have soft-body physics anytime soon, I'd wondered if it was possible to apply them (like a deformer) in another application.  I really thought there were options for this.

FYI, Anyone interested should hop over the Runtime DNA and check out Coops latest little tidbit about RWBY. The really neat news is that they apparently are going to give us at least a peek or three behind the curtain, but only after the premiere at RTX this July.

And aside from modelling in an OBJ friendly app (I assume Maya, as there is at least one pic showing the knight and you can read Maya on the top of the app bar), nearly all of the animation is done in Poser...including the particle sprites, based on techniques from an 'old Poser hand' (hmmm, wonder who that could be, ponder ponder....).

We got RWBY coming out.

We got Aurora II coming out.

things are looking good in animators land. We may have to expand 'The Poser 12'. Finally.......!  

 

 

 

additionally, thinkcooper has promised a webinar in the near future to show Poser animators how to get the best from Poser animation. Obviously it won't be all encompassing but it does show that SM are listening to us. Waits patiently for the next negative post :)

And head over to Rooster Teeth's site, the Black Trailer is up!

 

Heehee, I knew it! Blake's 'cat ears' are a strategically placed hair bow.

That's Ruby, Weiss, and Blake. Now how many Y names are there out there.....?

And the animation quality is holding up nicely.....