Now you can conquer each essential feature of Poser 7! Poser 7 Revealed helps you develop the skills you need to create, render, and animate scenes and projects using the amazing tools offered by Poser 7. This hands-on guide provides you with step-by-step tutorials for each task, followed by projects that allow you to use each new skill on your own. Examine each feature room of Poser, including working with materials, cloth, hair, cameras, and bones. Put the power of Poser 7 to work for you as you learn how to simulate dynamic hair and cloth with collision detection, create realistic lighting with the image-based lighting feature, build custom morph targets with the new deformation brushes, use the new Talk Designer to automatically sync facial animations to an audio track, combine the power of Poser 7 with other software packages, create new motions using the new animation layers feature, and import externally created 3D models to enhance the scene.

Poser 7 Revealed_ The Official Guide offers a thorough introduction to Poser, explaining how to use the latest version. It is ideal for the beginning reader, using conceptual discussions and elementary, engaging tutorials to explain each topic. Poser can be intimidating for new users. This book tackles the difficulties of working with Poser and includes coverage that explains each amazing Poser feature. The growing popularity of Poser is making it a frequently used program across the globe in a variety of outlets, including design schools, gaming companies, and movie production companies.

Poser 7 Revealed: The Official Guide offers a thorough introduction to Poser, explaining how to use the latest version. It is ideal for the beginning reader, using conceptual discussions and elementary, engaging tutorials to explain each topic. Poser can be intimidating for new users. This book tackles the difficulties of working with Poser and includes coverage that explains each amazing Poser feature. The growing popularity of Poser is making it a frequently used program across the globe in a variety of outlets, including design schools, gaming companies, and movie production companies.

Hard to find my answers in it

I’m a programmer and industrial guy who enjoys writing fiction shorts in my spare time and thought it might be fun to start cobbling simple ’illustrations’ together to help set the mood for the stories. Really 2D stuff but I figured a 3D tool like Poser 3D would help create a series of modified images for different chapters. I’m of average competence in tools like Corel and PaintShopPro, which I use to illustrate tech articles and web pages. Poser’s interface and paradigm is pretty tough to grasp - in part because I already know "other things" I guess and thus have incorrect expectations of how to do it.

I bought this book hoping to get myself up to speed; it isn’t doing that. I think the author tried to mix in too much advanced material. Each chapter starts with a horrible "intro" which doesn’t summarize where we’re going - just bowls a lot of jargon at the reader. While the books seems to have nice "we did this - you learned this" like any good educational book, they seem to be "we pulled down the menu" etc (what our mouse did - not what we as brains did).

I’m sure I’ll get more use from it once I know the basics, but for now it’s not helping. The author should have gotten feedback from some absolute beginner trying to use the book to make a simple Poser image.

Disappointed with this book

I bought this book when I bought the Poser 7 program to have a reference and a guide while learning the program. I’ve been using the program for quite sometime now. I decided to put the book away since it is more confusing to follow its numerous typos and the lessons that you can download from the website lead you nowhere. I ended up with a bunch of loopholes and questions. I searched the internet for tutorials and found answers from http://my.smithmicro.com/tutorials or the reference that came with the program will also help. This book is a total disappointment.

Perfect for beginners!

Having purchased Poser 7 and wanting to find the easiest way to learn this massive program I bought this book hoping it would be good. Mr. Murdock has written easy to follow instructions that take you from introduction to the controls through rendering, using other software with Poser, and beyond. It has concise lessons with projects and reviews to help you practice what you are learning and make it easier to remember.
This was precisely what I needed and it is going to be my #1 reference for Poser. I couldn’t have asked for more.

Just use the online reference guide!

Disappointed. The book really is really no better than the online reference, which comes with the software. If you are wanting to learn Poser, skip this and buy something else.

Great, Helpful book

This book has taught me a lot that I didn’t know was possible with Poser. It went into pretty good depth and I can’t seem to tear myself away from it - I’m always going back to the book to read up on the other possibilities with Poser, and every time I go back to the book for more information, it feels like christmas :D

I am really enyoing this book.


Warmest Regards,

Fredo D Murillo Jr

Enjoy colors and resolution

The technical content of the book is quite worth the buy, but I am not giving a score greater than "average" since:
1- the pictures within the book are all greyscale
2- the resolution of the pictures is so low that whenever the text points to such pictures it seems to me more like a sadistic joke rather useful information

Perfect handy reference for the Poser 7 software

My first reaction to this book was that it wouldn’t be very helpful in learning Poser because it did not contain any project-based tutorials. However as this book found a permanent place on my reference shelf, I quickly realized that I was wrong. As I worked through several project-based Poser tutorials from the web, I found myself frequently referencing back to this Poser 7 Revealed book to better understand how to use a specific tool or technique needed for the tutorial. The basic concept behind the Revealed book series is to supply simple explanations for each feature of a software and also give supporting exercises to reinforce what you have just learned. Although you will not create a finished project from this book, Kelly L. Murdock has written the perfect handy reference for the Poser 7 software by e frontier, Inc.

Murdock begins with an overview of the Poser 7 interface and introduces each major set of tools found in the Poser Rooms. He covers the Poser Libraries and then moves on to the basics such as posing figures, working with props, cameras, lighting, materials and building a Poser scene. With that background covered, he then discusses more advanced topics such as adding dynamic hair and clothes to your figure and creating facial expressions.

Posing your figure is only part of what can be accomplished with the Poser software. Murdock covers morphing and rigging your Poser figures for animation and shows how lip syncing is made easy with the Poser Talk Designer Interface. Lastly, he discusses rendering Poser scenes, using Poser with other software and writing Python scripts.

Although the book does not contain a CD, you can download from the publisher’s website the supporting Poser files needed for demonstrating the more complex Poser techniques. Throughout the book, Murdock has added helpful comments and tips.

Kelly L Murdock has worked in the area of computer graphics for many years and has authored several books including 3ds max Bible, Illustrator Bible, Adobe Creative Suite Bible, Maya 7 Revealed, LightWave 3D 8 Revealed and Poser 6 Revealed.