Practical Poser 7 (Graphics Series) by Denise Tyler
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Book Reviews of Practical Poser 7 (Graphics Series)
Book Review: Intermediate to Advanced Level Book
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is listed as a beginning to intermediate level book. I think it's actually a little higher than that. It presumes that you have at least reviewed the Reference Manual, and hopefully worked through the Tutorial Manual. This is a tutorial style book. It takes you through a series of steps that will teach you more about the design of a person than you imagined.
After going through this book, I'm not going to say that the people making the next Harry Potter movie will jump at the chance to hire you, but I will say that you'll know a hell of a lot more about the computer creation of characters than you did when you started.
The key is to make characters look real. And here the authors point out little things like what do the fingers do in the hand that isn't reaching for something. And how do you make the torso bend with the body so that it looks real.
All in all, quite an exceptional book that I highly recommend. These people know what they are doing and know how to write about it.
The CD supplied with the book has a wealth of material including:
All the files used in the book and all of the images
Numerous Poser figures from a variety of sources
UV Mapper Software (Classic version)
Additional material from previous versions of this book
Book Review: Computer libraries won't want to miss this.
Summary: 5 Stars
If you have the basics down with Poser and want to move to the next level, PRACTICAL POSER 7 is for you: the computer user who already has some grounding and wants to move up. It's an updated edition of a best-seller and covers all of Poser 7's capabilities, from saving custom faces in the Face Room and using the Hair Room to add hair to clothing to texturing, creating custom morphs, UV mapping and more. With black and white screen shot examples throughout, you can't go wrong - and many a graphics teacher will want to use PRACTICAL POSER 7 as a classroom text. Computer libraries won't want to miss this.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
Book Review: Excellent Book
Summary: 5 Stars
This is more of an advanced book unless you already have 3d modeling experience. If you are a beginner you should get this and another book (or use Posers built-in documentation). This book is well written and organized. Everything is covered pretty evenly--from designing clothing to animating figures. It even digs into raw editing of some of CR2 and OBJ files.Book Review: Practical Poser 7
Summary: 4 Stars
I'm about a quarter of the way through this book. So far, it has all the detail I'm looking for.
The biggest knock I have against it is, on the back of the book, it says the CD has "all the files for the tutorials, including necessary Poser content, textures, and images". THAT IS A LIE.
I had to write to the publisher to find out that you do, indeed, have to purchase content, if you want to use the same content that is used in the tutorials.
Book Review: Rather disappointing
Summary: 3 Stars
Let me preface this review by stating that I've produced my own Poser-related tutorials for several years. I've earned some decent recognition from companies such as CuriousLabs and DAZ3D. My web site:
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I've found the Poser manuals to be a huge disappointment over the years. I went to the forums, and asked many questions. All too often I found the answers were inadequate. People just didn't seem to relate things in a way I could understand. That's when I started teaching myself, and writing tutorials in a style that I could understand.
My tutorials are well received by newbies all around the world.
My Poser-related pursuits have been rather unsophisticated. I'd hoped to learn some of the more complex aspects of Poser. I'd read positive reviews of this author for years, and decided to take a chance with her latest book.
Unfortunately, the book appears to be a rehash of what's covered in the manual.
Or at least, there wasn't enough depth in the areas I wanted to learn. I won't buy any more books in that series.
Besides I grew pretty disillusioned with Poser as of Poser 6.
I've been using DAZ|Studio since it was publicly released.
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