Smith Micro have just officially announced Poser Pro 2014, and they’ve even priced and dated it: 21st May 2013! Here are the new features, with my comments on each: * There’s a new Pro-version only “Fitting Room”… “to convert your existing clothing and props to fit any figure”. Useful, although third-party software such as CrossDresser
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The slick new DAZ Studio 4.5 hair-growth plugin Look At My Hair now has a new free player that integrates right into DAZ 4.5… “integrated in the DAZ Studio interface, the Look at my Hair Player allows you to load most pre-made Look at my Hair presets or .duf scenes, modify color and shader properties,
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3d fantasy artist DeeDee has a very interesting real-world comparison between Poser and Vue as a render…
There’s a new 3D Art magazine podcast: an interview with Paolo Ciccone, author of the new Reality 3 rendering plugin for Poser, which links Poser to the free LuxRender rendering engine. Reality 3 + Poser image. After a long wait Reality 3 for Poser is actually available to buy now, with a $20 discount until
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A Renderosity staffer reviews Vue Xtream 11, the top version of the natural landscape rendering software. The blurb for the lesser Vue 11 Studio version ($399) claims… “extended Poser/DAZ integration” and that it will “Load and render Poser characters”. Hopefully that latter feature isn’t limited to the 64-bit version, as it was in Vue 10.
Hot from the Carrara Cafe! News that DAZ Carrara 8.5 is to be released at the end of summer 2013, with Carrara 9 set to follow perhaps Christmas 2013 or in the first quarter of 2014. Carrara 8.5 will include… – Support for up to Windows 8 and Mac OSX 10.8 – DSON support –
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All editions of the Vue 11 landscape software (Pioneer, Theme Packs, Frontier, Esprit, Studio, Complete, Kitchen Sink With Pink Spots…) are now available in German and French.
Reality 3 for Poser 9 / Poser Pro 2012 SR3 is scheduled to be released in April 2013, at $59.95. It’s a plugin that connects Poser to the power of the free LuxRender high end render engine. Here’s the preview video… Apparently it’ll be fully integrated with the Poser interface, and will include auto materials-conversion
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I’m always been a fan of comics, and the chance to combine comics with animation seems like a dream come true — to someone who was a kid in an age when the coin-operated photocopier was the best advanced comics-production technology we had access to. So it’s exciting that Smith Micro, of Poser fame, have
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Digital comics makers who draw or paint over their DAZ/Poser renders for might be interested in a free webinar from Smith Micro on “What’s New in Manga Studio 5?”. Despite its somewhat misleading name, the specialist graphics software Manga Studio 5 is not just for manga artists. It’s just about the best dedicated comic-book production
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Look at My Hair! 1.0 has been released and is live now on the DAZ Store. 12 months in development, the plugin aims to provide DAZ Studio 4.5 users with the tools… “to create hair and fur for all the figures and objects he/she desires.” …and also to easily style and cut that hair. Looks
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An interesting new graphics software release. Corel’s features-heavy natural-media software Painter has a new Painter Lite version now available. Price is just $69 (about £47 in the UK). There’s already the Painter Essentials version, but even that was too confusing for some. So Corel has stripped Painter down even more. The Macworld magazine review of
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I’ve been having a look at the free CrossDresser software for DAZ 3D Studio and Poser. CrossDresser is a speedy and simple utility which quickly converts DAZ/Poser clothing from one character, to fit and conform to another character. I downloaded CrossDresser and the install went swiftly. It then popped up an updater, and offered to
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Octane render 1.0 final is now available, with the Poser plugin. A DAZ 3d Studio plugin is coming “soon”. A Standalone + Poser plugin bundle costs 279 euros (about $360), although the purchase page for that bundle hasn’t yet been updated — it still talks about the beta version of Octane.
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