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Generate new characters from your facial photographs.
Add hair and clothing.
Dress Poser's virtual stage with props, lights and cameras to construct 3D scenes.
Automatically generate walking or running animations and talking characters.
Import motion capture files for even more animated realism.
Animate lights and cameras, and then render your scene into photorealistic images and video for web, print, and film projects.
Export 3D figures to add characters to other 3D applications.
Along with 8 brand new 3D humans, Poser 8 includes an improved user interface to maximize your workspace while providing better workflow, a new search-enabled library so you can find, organize and use your content easier, a dependant parameter tool that lets you teach objects in the scene to interact with each other, cross body morph brushes to smoothly sculpt a figure across every body part, new photorealistic rendering features that more accurately reproduce light and shadows, and improved character rigging for even better character bending. To save time, Poser 8 has been performance optimized so you can pose your characters and render them faster on today's multiple processor systems.

If you're a serious artist, illustrator or animator or simply dream of playing with 3D characters, you'll love getting creative with Poser 8!
Key New Features
8 new fully rigged, fully-posable, photorealistic human characters
1.X GB all new content
New User Interface with improved workflow
Dependent Parameters editor enables teaching of interaction links
Search-enabled Content Management system in the Poser 8 Library
Cross Body Part Morph Tool
Indirect Illumination for Global Illumination effects
Improved rigging system for better bending characters
Improved OpenGL real time scene preview displays up to 8 lights more realistic lighting
Physically correct light attenuation for more accurate light falloff
Tone mapping and Exposure control for more accurate brightness and luminance
Normal Mapping support at render time
Performance optimizations for posing and rendering improvements on multi-processor systems
Wardrobe Wizard to fit existing clothing items onto new figures
wxPython support provides 3rd party add-on developers more control and extensibility
Key Product Benefits
Powerful, yet easy-to-use 3D character animation solution
Very affordable
Includes 3D character tools and over 2.5GB of ready-to-use content
Includes 8 brand new, ready-to-pose, fully textured human characters
No need to model 3D characters from scratch
Render photorealistic or stylized art and animations for print, web or video projects
Create 3D figures to use in other applications
Easily manage and use your scene assets and content
Fit existing clothing assets to new figures
Create full body morphs
Create better-bending new figures
Link objects in scene to interact