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Curious Labs Unveils Poser 5

Curious Labs announced Poser 5, a new version of the company's 3D character animation tool. New features in Poser 5 include: <li>The Firefly Renderer, a subdivision surfa...

Game Developer, Staff

July 24, 2002

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Curious Labs announced Poser 5, a new version of the company's 3D character animation tool. New features in Poser 5 include:

  • The Firefly Renderer, a subdivision surface and raytracing engine that enables smoothing of facets, displacement mapping, 3D motion blur, depth of field effects, procedural textures, dynamic cloth and more

    • Dynamic hair with growth, styling and physics controls

    • Facial photo-based modeling using scanned 3D human heads and a texture database

    • FacePutty, a tool for interactive sculpting and generating caricatures and random heads

    • New 3D human models with fully articulated hands and feet, photo-realistic texture maps and facial morphs

    • Collision detection tools Poser 5 is expected to be available later this summer with a suggested retail price of $549. Poser 5 will initially be available for Windows; details about a Macintosh version will be announced later this summer.

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