Do you want to get the most out of Poser Pro 11? Try these tutorials.
Poser is a user-friendly 3D design program optimized for the human form but it can be imposing to start. The program can be used for more than producing digital images. Poser can also create animations, motion graphics, comics and game models, to name a few things.
How do you do these things or improve your current knowledge base? These tutorials are endorsed by us and will teach you everything you need to know to create with Poser.
Poser Pro 11 tutorials
In these tutorials on Poser 11, animator and Poser artist, Steve Harms, shares his workflow secrets and guides your learning beginning with the Poser basics on the first lesson including navigating the user interface, locating tools, operating cameras and posing figures.
We recommend these so you can develop your basic skills while Steve takes you on a tour of your runtime, how to set up scenes and finally render your artwork.
Tutorials range from beginners to intermediate to master skill sets. There are even tutorials on how to easily express and render your imagination from Sketch, Comic and Toon styles to the realism of the brand new SuperFly render engine.
Produced by smith Micro, this tutorial series is uniquely designed to accelerate your learning while having fun and creating 3D art that inspires.
Find them on YouTube.
Renderosity
Renderosity has more than 50 free videos for Poser 11, Poser 2014 and La Femme.
The Renderosity-produced tutorials cover texturing, render settings, lighting, facial controls and more. There are also subcategories for La Femme and Dynamic clothing. Find them here.
Renderosity also has a variety of paid tutorials that range in topic and price (like Genesis 3 to Poser 11 for $6). You can find them here.
La Femme
Learn how to get the most out of La Femme, Poser's base newest figure, with tutorials on her joint rotations (JCMs), morphs, HR dev rigs and more.
The La Femme figure for Poser 11 uses a beautifully sculpted base model that gives artists what they need to create beautiful images. The advanced rigging is designed to make her easy to pose and keeps the complexities of the figure out of your way. La Femme comes with a wide variety of morphs as well as the ability to be further sculpted with scaling and body control handles. She includes highly detailed texture maps and hybrid materials that work in both FireFly and SuperFly.
Learn how to get the most out of her with these tutorials by Nerd3D.
Dynamics in Poser
In the "Dynamics in Poser" series, Renderosity vendor Frequency, aka, Ylva Grefberg, teaches Poser users the ins and outs of Dynamic clothing in Poser.
A trained seamtress and graphic designer, Frequency has learned how to use Poser's dynamic clothing options to create realistic clothing. Poser's Dynamic clothing allows artists to create clothing and apply physics to it so that it flows more realistically.
"I do feel Dynamic clothing is very beautiful and that it offers so many exciting possibilities," she said in an interview with Renderosity Magazine.
Find the tutorials on Renderosity.