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Poser Tutorials

Poser is a popular program used to generate 3D animations of peopleand animals.This page has a collection of all known tutorials relating to Poser software.Click here to see how many there are.Other programs are useful when using Poser. One of them is Bryce 3D which ismade by the same company that makes Poser, MetaCreations. Many of the tutorialslocated on this page describe how to use some of these other programs toenhance your Poser creations.

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BackgroundsFace and HairMovies and Animation
Basic OperationsFiguresProps
ClothesFormat ConversionSpecial Techniques
Creating Special ObjectsMorphingTexture Maps
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FAQ

Poser FAQ
This FAQ assumes you are familiar with Windows or Mac GUI terminology. If not, the GUI Concepts page will get you started.
Author: Jeffrey Howarth

Backgrounds

Galactic Backgrounds - Bryce 3D
Author: Peter Sharpe
Moon & Stars - Bryce 3D
Author: Peter Sharpe

Basic Operations

A PDF file from MetaCreations containing the basic Canoma tutorial
Author: MetaCreations
3D Text in Bryce - Bryce 3D
Author: Peter Sharpe
How to make a Poser figure in 15 easy steps.
Author: Unknown
Portrait
A very descriptive tutorial that guides you through creating your character in Poser, making a UV map, importing into Bryce, using photos, creating and adding textures and fine details in Photoshop. For beginners to advanced users.
Author: Ralph Manis
Poser 3 for Beginners
An extensive tutorial to help you learn the basic tools in Poser.
Author: Kristin Bellehumeur
Poser Pro Pack Overview
Viewlet demonstration showing the features of the Poser Pro Pack.
Author: Curious Labs

Clothes

Forming poseable clothing and figure colouring without the use of texture maps. Poser 3
Author: Phil Cooke
Clothing For Eve
Convert P4 Fem clothes to eve with a few simple steps!
Author: Eric VanDycke
How to Make the Hooters(tm) Outfit
This advanced tutorial shows you how to create the Hooters outfit using Poser 4, UV Mapper, and Adobe Photoshop.
Author: John Hoagland
Making superconforming clothes
Author: Serge Marck
Roy's Max Clothing Tutorials
Basic description of 6 methods for giving your models cloths.
Author: Roy Riggs
Roy's Mini Skirt Tutorial
Editting geometry in Max - Difficulty Level: Easy
Author: Roy Riggs
Roy's long skirt Tutorial
Editting geometry in Max - Difficulty Level: Medium
Author: Roy Riggs
Roy's Tank Top Tutorial
Editting geometry in Max - Difficulty Level: Hard
Author: Roy Riggs
Using Transparency Maps
Use Transparency Maps to cut objects instead of editing the 3-D object itself.
Author: John Hoagland

Face and Hair

'Angie' Modeling in Poser, rendering in Bryce and Photoshop textures
A very descriptive tutorial that guides you through creating your character in Poser, making a UV map, importing into Bryce, using photos, creating and adding textures and fine details in Photoshop. For beginners to advanced users.
Author: Ralph Manis
Digital Hair Mania with Photoshop
Author: Adobe Systems Senior Creative Director Russell Brown
Map a photo to a poser model
Author: Neutron
Hair Tutorial
Here is a quick tutorial on how to make your hair look more like the real thing.
Author: Zone 5 Graphics
Hair Tutorial
A tutorial on my own personal techniques for drawing hair post-render.
Author: dac
Hair Tutorials
Tips for working with hair in Poser. Topics include applying hair, post editing, importing, stretching, adapting hairstyles, and sources for finding hair models online.
Author: Angus McIntyre
Xtinction's Tutorial
Using PhotoShop to enhance the look of your character.
Author: Xtinction?

Figures

The Queen tutorial
How Martin created a beautiful magazine cover using Poser and Bryce.
Author: Martin Murphy
Karate Woman
This tutorial shows how my Karate Woman figure was made using Rhino to transplant Nude Woman's feet onto Business Woman.
Author: Dave_L.
Making Extra Arms / Limbs in Poser
This is a short and sweet tutorial on how to make limb only charcters for P3-P4. Another Compose utility tutorial and a quick look at editing a .cr2 in a text editor.
Author: Eric VanDycke
Making Poseable Figures with the Hierarchy Editor
Use the Hierarchy Editor in Poser to make imported models into figures. For Poser 4.
Author: Richard Hatch

Format Conversion

Mac Compose Tutorial!
Website details how to set up and use John Wind's Compose utility on a Macintosh computer.
Author: Michael Barnes
How to import Poser 4 figures into Bryce 4
Author: Spike
Special Note: This is a PDF file.
PC to Mac Conversion
Author: EJewett
Special Note: This is a PDF file.
From Poser2Bryce
Author: FastTraxx
Poser3 to Bryce3D
How to import Poser figures into Bryce.
Author: Lisa Casler
Importing Poser 2 Textures into Bryce 3D
Author: Peter Sharpe
Importing Poser 3 Textures into Bryce 3D
Author: Peter Sharpe
External .obj Calls in Poser Prop Files
A neat prop file hack to make poser read and store the .obj file externally instead of storing the file in the prop file itself.
Author: Eric VanDycke
OBJ File Format
Learn how to edit OBJ files with a text editor.
Author: Roy Riggs
Poser 4 to 3D Studio Max R3
Author: Steve Shanks
Poser 4 To Cinema 4D XL V6
Author: Steve Shanks
Pro Pack Flash Animation
Viewlet showing how to Export your animations to flash files directly from Poser and Pro Pack.
Author: Curious Labs
Using Poser Figures in Bryce
This tutorial explains how to move figures and props from Curious Labs' Poser into Corel Bryce, keeping all the mapping intact, with a minimum of effort.
Author: Robin Wood

Morphing

Amorphium Tutorials
A collection of 4 tutorials.
Author: Mark
Applying a Morph In Poser 3 or 4
A step by step on how to use morphs. Complete with illustrations.
Author: Eric VanDycke
Breathing Figures
Learn how to create the morphs for a figure that realistically breathes. For Poser 4.
Author: dan [dd]
Deleting Parameter Dials
There are a couple of situations where it may be advantageous to remove a morph target parameter dial from an object.
Author: Curious Labs
Enhanced Morph Control Explained
This tutorial is geared toward Poser 4 users that have some knowledge of how cr2 files are constructed.
Author: Robert E. Whisenant (a.k.a. rbtwhiz)
Extracting Morphs with Compose
A short and sweet step by step on how to extract a poser morph target from a .cr2 or .pz3 file for use with other characters.
Author: Eric VanDycke
Morph Squishing 102
Reduce the size, help protect copyrights! Be a squisher!
Author: Eric VanDycke
Morphing With Magnets Part 1
Making morph targets with Poser 4's Magnets feature. This part shows a single magnet, single body part morph from start tofinish.
Author: Eric VanDycke
Morphing With Magnets Part 2
Making morph targets with Poser 4's Magnets feature. This part show you how to make morphs that span more than one body part, as well as how to use the Mag Zone's falloff graph.
Author: Eric VanDycke
Morphing With Magnets Part 3
Making morph targets with Poser 4's Magnets feature. This time we use the grouping tool to make the morphs more acurate.
Author: Eric VanDycke
Morphing With Magnets Part 4
Using 2 Magnets for Symetrical Morphs across an axis.
Author: Eric VanDycke
Morph Targets Tutorial
This tutorial is aimed at jumping the hurdles that are particular to using 3D Studio MAX.
Author: Roy Riggs
Poser Morphs for Free
Author: Steve Shanks
Squeeze Deform morphs in Poser
Homebrew method of creating believable squeezing and crushing deforms of flesh, metal, etc. using nothing more than Poser.
Author: Duane Moody
Using Morph Targets
Using this technique you can create more distinct characters.
Author: John Hoagland

Movies and Animation

Animating the 'Floating Kick' Scene
Recreate the jump kick scene from The Matrix in Poser 4.
Author: John Hoagland
That Matrix Thing You Do
You have seen the stop frame, move the camera, restart trick that the Wachowski Brothers made popular in The Matrix. It is easy to replicate that effect in Poser 4.
Author: Martin Gisborne
Controlling a Figure's Eyes
Control a figure's eyes so that they can follow a camera in the scene as it moves through space (Poser 3 characters or later).
Author: Curious Labs
Introducing Actions Mid-Walk
This tutorial will show you how to introduce an event (in this case a wave) into the middle of a walk that has already been defined.
Author: Curious Labs
Lip Synchronization Tutorial
Use Mimic by LIPSinc to lip synch your characters in Poser.
Author: Unknown
Making a Centaur Gallop
Combining a horse gallop with the walk designer to create a centaur animation.
Author: Bloodsong
Smooth Looping Animation
On looped animations it is common for a slight hiccup to be in the movie on playback.
Author: Curious Labs

Creating Special Objects

Animating Ocean Waves
Start to finish on how to animate an ocean scene.
Author: Steven Sanvito
Animating Water Ripples
This tutorial will show how to animate circular ripples of water.
Author: Steven Sanvito
Creating space Scenes
Covers all aspects of creating space scenes. Goes through the creation of rock planets, earth-like planets, ringed planets and stars.
Author: Alexander Rives
Creating underwater Scenes
Shows how to create underwater scenes and include lighting effects such as reflection and refraction.
Author: Alexander Rives
Mastering the landscape: Distant Landscapes
This tutorial discusses the creation of the image shown on the title page. It explains step by step how all the elements were created and why the particular settings were chosen.
Author: Alexander Rives
Building craters
Bryce trick that kind of approximates Photoshop channel selection and produces really realistic volcanos and meteor craters.
Author: Andy Yue
Egyptian columns
These Egyptian columns are inspired by a photograph of a room of the temple of Karnak.
Author: Lann
Foreground Planets
Lists the steps involved to create a planet in the foreground.
Author: Steven Sanvito
Fractal Terrains
This tutorial is on how you can turn a fractal into a terrain in Bryce from Metatools, although this concept can be applied to most other graphics programs.
Author: Steve Lareau
Modeling Chains
Modeling Chains in Bryce 3D Using Motion Paths and Null Objects
Author: Steven Sanvito
Making Chains - Bryce 3D
Author: Peter Sharpe
Bat & Fairy wings - Bryce 3D
Author: Peter Sharpe
A Simple Waterfall - Bryce 3D
Author: Peter Sharpe
Pouring Water - Bryce 3D
Author: Peter Sharpe
Shells & Ram's Horn - Bryce 3D
Author: Peter Sharpe
Picture Cube - Bryce 3D
Author: Peter Sharpe
A tutorial on how to create boxes with UVMapper
How to create a box with UVMapper.
Author: Steve Cox
Basic Poser UV-mapper tutorial
This is a brief introduction for newbies on how to use the UVMapper to create a template for texture or transparency maps for poser.
Author: unknown (Symbiant?)
Rainbows by Numbers
Author: Peter Sharpe
Gemstones from Pyramids
Author: Peter Sharpe
Disco Light Ball
Author: Peter Sharpe
Making Craters
Author: Peter Sharpe
Simple Comets
Author: Peter Sharpe
Crescent Moons & Planets
Author: Peter Sharpe
Dishes & Plates
Author: Peter Sharpe
Planet Earth
Author: Peter Sharpe
Making Realistic Models of your Friends in Poser
A step-by-step method for using photos to model your friends heads in Poser. This is NOT a tutorial on Photoshopping scans into body texture maps, but a 'sculpting' guideline for people familiar with morphs and/or magnets
Author: Duane Moody
Poser 4 2 Max
Using Poser 4 to produce characters for use in architectural Max renderings.
Author: Baumgarten Enterprises
Poser Custom Model Maker's Guide
Create your favorite super heroes in Poser 4 with this in-depth guide from Dave Hill.
Author: Dave Hill

Special Techniques

Direct Path Editing
Shows the basic forms of path modification.
Author: Bernd Jaeger
Exact Sun and Moon Locations
Shows how to place the sun or the moon at a certain location of the picture.
Author: Busse
Fake Reflection of Light
Shows how to have light reflected properly in your scene.
Author: Busse
Family affairs
Use families to select a group of objects which should be animated together.
Author: Busse
Object Specific Anti-aliasing
How to keep a texture from getting blurred during antialiasing.
Author: Busse
Organic Modeling
Three step processing for organic modeling
Author: Jac Grenfell
Rendering Wireframe Animations
How to render a whole animation as wireframe or even flat shaded.
Author: Busse
Simulating Blurred Propellers
Steps to follow to create the blurred propeller effect.
Author: Steven Sanvito
Terrain Editor
Shows some of the Easter Eggs that can be found in the terrain editor.
Author: Busse
Torus Editor
A few steps to try in the torus editor.
Author: Busse
Unity Concept
How to set and use the unity concept.
Author: Busse
Using Negative Lights
How to use black holes (negative lights).
Author: Busse
Anaglyphs
Shows how to produce stereoscopic images with anaglyphs.
Author: Lann
Boolean tutorial
Two part tutorial in one: Creating a Building with Primitives and Working with Booleans.
Author: Gary Rea
Advanced Linking I
In this example the little cage is the parent of the cones and it only transfers it's size, which you can set in the Attributes dialog.
Author: Busse
Advanced Linking II
Like in the example before, the origin handle is moved to the cone's base.
Author: Busse
Amplification I
Describes what happens when a transformation is applied to a linked hierarchy.
Author: Busse
Amplification II
Describes what happens when other coordinate translations are applied to a linked hierarchy.
Author: Busse
That cool look where you can see portions of the wireframe overlapping the model
Here's how to do it.
Author: Tim Laubach
Advanced Techniques
Only works with Netscape 4.5 or later. Does not work with Internet Explorer 4.0. A must read for anyone who wants to learn all there is to know about Poser.
Author: MetaCreations
Special Note: This is a PDF file.
Head replacement using Poser and Imagine
Author: Mary Aliandra
Dressing up the DXF
Author: Peter Sharpe
Breaking Glass
Author: Peter Sharpe
Streaming Light Rays
Author: Peter Sharpe
Streaming Light Rays 2
Author: Peter Sharpe
Falling Snow - Bryce 3D
Author: Peter Sharpe
Bright Eyes - Moist Lips
Author: Peter Sharpe
Boolean Operations
Author: Peter Sharpe
Recognizable Features
Purpose of this tutorial is to illustrate a simple approach to quickly and easily produce a low-fidelity 3D figure of a recognizeable person.
Author: Martin Hongsermeier
Poser texture map into Bryce bump into Photoshop fur!
Author: Lyne
Glowing Eyes in Poser
This tutorial explains how to make eyes (and other things) glow when you are using Poser to render your pictures.
Author: Robin Wood
Group Tool Tutorial
A step-by-step tutorial on the Poser group tool, using a simple sphere as an example.
Author: dac
Group Tool What Does it do?
Detailed explanation on how to effectively utilize the Poser Group tool.
Author: Doug Sturk
Installing Eve / Azura
A quick step by step on installing Eve or Azura using Mover.
Author: Eric VanDycke
How to Make Reflections
Learn how to create mirror image reflections in Poser 4.
Author: John Hoagland
Illegitimate Children in Poser
Poser parts can only touch one parent.... until now. Some techniques and theories, including adding weld commands to the CR2.
Author: Bloodsong
Joint Parameters for Eyes
Setting JPs for eyes so they rotate nicely and do not smush your head, and so you do not have to turn off the bending for the head.
Author: Bloodsong
Inflating a balloon
Author: dan [dd]
Lighting in Poser
Author: Syyd Raven
Making Waves
Learn how to use the Wave Deformer in Poser 4.
Author: dan [dd]
Magnet Basics
Some basic info and a short tutorial on Magnet Orientation.
Author: Eric VanDycke
Radiosity Simulation in Poser
Learn how to simulate radiosity in Poser.
Author: dan [dd]
Remapping Poser figure with UVMapper.
Title says it all!
Author: Jeff Richardson
Scaling Ray Dream 5 props to Poser scale
Clever method for keeping your Ray Dream-built props at the same scale Poser uses.
Author: Duane Moody
Superimposing Images onto Backgrounds in Poser
This tutorial explains how to set up figures created with Poser so that they look real when using the Render Over Background feature.
Author: Robin Wood
Using the Objaction Mover
Author: Jessica Riggs
Using UVMapper with Poser 3
Author: Stephen L. Cox
Welding RD5 props to avoid sharp corners in Poser
Step by step method for ensuring soft corners on props built in Ray Dream.
Author: Duane Moody

Texture Maps

Texture Presets
Shows how to set up texture presets.
Author: Busse
How to use Steve Cox's UVMapper program
Author: Steve Cox
Making hair and eyelash texture maps
Author: Tony Lane
Texturing Poser Figures in Bryce
Author: Jeff Richardson
A tutorial on using Windows UVMapper to create complex texture maps
More tutorials on how to use Steve Cox's UVMapper program
Author: Steve Cox
A tutorial on using UVMapper to remap Poser 3 models permanently
How to remap your Poser models with UVMapper
Author: Steve Cox
Beginners guide to applying tex maps in Poser
This is a brief beginners tutorial for applying exsisting textures in Poser 4 using Zygotes Victoria model. It assumes no previous knowledge of texture mapping, and covers only the most basic steps in applying maps to your model.
Author: unknown (Symbiant?)
Textures on Poser Figures
Shows bringing Poser figures into Bryce for texturing.
Author: Baumgarten Enterprises
Texture Maps
Learn about creating texture maps for use with Poser figures.
Author: Angus McIntyre
theTMSKGuide
19 sections includes everything you need to know about texture mapping in Poser 4.
Author: dan [dd]

There are a total of 151 tutorials on this page.61 of them relate exclusively to Poser and58 of them relate exclusively to Bryce 3d. Theremainder relate to a variety of other programs.

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