Résumé
Have you upgraded to Poser 4 ? If you answer yes, then this book is the one resource you'll need to master the new features, including multiple lighting tools, morphing choices, clothing options, animating imported models, and increased mapping capabilities. All of these new features are explained and illustrated with hands-on tutorials.
Poser 4 is an indispensable tool for anyone involved in computer-generated character animation, and this comprehensive resource will ensure that you are using it to the max! The companion CD-ROM includes project files, animations, Poser Image Maps, backgrounds, 3D prop objects and ready-to-use character and poses.
KEY FEATURES :
- Provides a detailed overview of all the new features of Poser 4 including creating ethnic features, and interchangable 3D clothing
- First book to cover Poser 4
- Looks at morphing and clothing animation options using detailed tutorials
- Teaches users to animate imported modesl from other high-end 3D software
- Explains the new mapping capabilites, lighting, morphing, animating, and prop attribute
- The book and CD are filled with new illustrations, tutorial/project files, ready-to-use aniamtions and textures, and QuickTime movies.
Table of contents
Foreword
Introduction
SECTION I THE BASICS
New Features
Important Advancements
Moving Along
Navigating the Interface
First Things First
The Poser 4 Interface
Important Poser 4 Data Sites
Moving Along
Posing and Customizing the Human Body
Paying Attention
Basic Posing
Customizing the Human form
Customizing with Deformers
Moving Along
Posing and Customizing Hands
A Show of Hands
Customizing Hands
Using Deformers on a Hand
Moving Along
Creating Expressive Faces
Emotive Power
The New Racial Morphs
Moving Along
Posing and Customizing Animal Models
Internal Animal Models
External Animal Models
Assigning Human Characteristics to Animals
Deforming Animal Models
Moving Along
Composited Figures
What is a Composited Figure?
Internal Amalgamated Composites
Using the Hierarchy
Poseable Clothes
Prop Morphing
Spawning Props
Moving Along
Backgrounds, Props, and Rendering
The Ground Plane
Backgrounds
Props
CD Content Collections
Creative Rendering
Transparent Figure Textures
Material Group Painting
Moving Along
SECTION II POSER 4 ANIMATION
Animation Controls
The Idea Behind Keyframing
Two Animation Control Environments
The Animation Menu
IK
Preparatory Movements
Moving Along
Animating Articulated Hands
Pre-Attached Hands
Standalone Hands
Animated Hand Projects
Hand Jewelry
Study Your Body
New in Poser 4
Moving Along
Facial, Mouth, and Eye Movements
Animating the Mouth
Animating the Eyes
Two Approaches to Animating Facial
Characteristics
Moving Along
Animal Animation
Where Are the Poser Animals?
Eadweard Muybridge
Tips on the Poser Animals
More Animals
Moving Along
Composite Character Animation
Multiple Composite Poser Models
Prop Composites
Mixed Composite Combination Animations
Moving Along
The Walk Designer
The Walk Designed Control Dialog
Walk Design Parameters
Walk Design Parameter Combinations
Paths
Transitional Walks
Animals and The Walk Designer
Using BVH Motion Files
Moving Along
Morphing Madness
Creating Your Own Morph Targets
Moving Along
SECTION III ADVANCED TOPICS
Hierarchies
Basic Hierarchy Development
A Primitive Toy Birdoid
Automated Hierarchies
Moving Along
Handshaking
RayDream Studio
Other 3D Applications
2D Painting Applications
Great 2D f/x Plugings
Post-Production Editing
3D Painting Applications
BVH Motion Capture
Fashion Studio
Media Conversion and Compression
MetaSynth, MetaTracks, and Xx
Content You Gotta Have
Moving Along
Customizing Templates
File Naming Conventions
Creating Textures with Painter
Creating Textures with Photoshop
Mapping a Photographic Face
Poser Forum Web Ring
Moving Along
Cameras, Lights, and More Rendering Tips
Cameras
New Lights and Lighting
More on Rendering
Moving Along
Hints and Tips from Master Users
Chris Derochie
Martin Turner
Phonemes, a Quick But Important Note
Fast and Dirty Lip-Syncing
Cecilia Ziemer
Roy Riggs
Jackie Lewin
Stephen L. Cox
Rick Schrand
Morph Manager
The OBJ File Format
Moving Along
Figure Developers
The Zygote Media Group
BioMechanix
WhiteCrow 3D
The Poser Props Modeler's Guild
Moving Along
Advanced Poser Projects
The Carousel
The Centaur
Making Vampire Morphs
Bryce Beach and River Scenes for Poser Figures
Physical Manifestations of Terror
Moving Along
Color Plate Details
The Pool of Secrets
Greening
(Top) Verdict
(Top) Medusa
In Closing
Appendix A About The CD
Appendix B Contributor Biographies
Appendix C Vendor Contact Data
Appendix D Poser Web Resource Sites
Index
L'auteur - Shamms Mortier
R. Shamms Mortier has written a number of successful books including The Bryce 3D Handbook, The Poser 4 Handbook, Creating 3D Comix, contributes to a variety of industry magazines, and is a regular contributor to the Graphics Resource Club.
Caractéristiques techniques
| PAPIER | |
| Éditeur(s) | Charles River Media |
| Auteur(s) | Shamms Mortier |
| Parution | 20/01/2000 |
| Nb. de pages | 564 |
| Format | 18,8 x 23,5 |
| Poids | 1052g |
| EAN13 | 9781886801936 |
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