#Poser debut hands series#

The Lights icon, which gives you a variety of light set ups you can use. The Pose icon, which gives you a variety of poses to start your model off with. The Figures icon, which is where you can find the models and load them into your canvas. Everything is pretty neatly organized in menus, and when you want to load something into the canvas, just double click the thumbnail of the model.Īt the top of the Library panel, you'll notice a set of icons. This is where you can find lots of different people models, but you can also find animals, vehicles, cartoons, aliens, and more. The Library panel (right side of the program) is like a cave of wonderful treasures really. For example, when you select the head with the Rotate Tool (R), the Transform and Morph sections will only show you the options to change the head. Note that both the Transform and Morph sections adjust themselves accordingly when you select a specific body area and only wish to manipulate that area. The Transform section of the Parameters panel allows you to move the character on the canvas, and the Morph section allows you to change the aspect of the character itself.

This panel allows you to change body type, facial features and expressions, as well as the position of your 3D model on the canvas (moving it to the left/right, up/down, forward/backwards). The Parameters panel will be especially handy when we start customizing a base model in later steps. You'll notice that you can also directly select a camera, prop, or light from that menu. This one is quite handy when you want to select the entire body as you simply click on the drop down > Body. The second drop down menu will show the title of whichever body part you have currently selected. The first one will show the name of the model you're using, and when using multiple, you can go there to select a specific model. Your canvas, or called Preview in Poser, has two drop down menus at the top left. The small star beside the ball, when clicking on it, allows you to create a new light source. I'm assuming you all could have guessed this, but just in case, the pins with darker colors are the shadows, and the pins with lighter colors are the highlights. The small 3D ball you see there shows you how your light is set up at the moment, and the pins on it can be moved around it to change the light in your canvas. Step 3īelow the Camera Controls, you'll find the Light Controls. The sphere with arrows on it allow you to rotate around the character. The four hands connected together allow you to zoom in and out. The Move Y and X, (the hands beside the head) allow you to position the view on your canvas. Starting with the Camera Controls, for this tutorial we won't be using the 'Select Camera' (the head), so moving on to the others. Step 2īelow the Tools, you'll find Camera Controls.

And the Translate/Pull Tool (T), which is similar to the Rotate Tool (R), only when using it on a specific area of the body, the rest of the body will move along with it (quite a sensitive tool which if used too harshly will throw your model out of proportions). The Twist Tool (W), which allows you to twist the body around. Before we start customizing and positioning the model, we're going to have a quick look at the tools we'll be using, and hopefully with this the following steps will be easier to grasp! Step 1Īt the top left, we'll be using the first three: The Rotate Tool (R), which allows you to rotate specific areas on a body - front, back, left and right. Poser, like Illustrator really, has plenty of things to offer. We're going to take a look around Poser and see how you can use the program to create your own reference, in this case a superhero in an extreme dynamic pose, and then use the reference in Adobe Illustrator! It's probably not the exact purpose of the program, but it has essentially become my stock creator. It's a nifty 3D program that offers a great variety of 3D models which you can position in any way you like.

#Poser debut hands series#

You could contact the photographer and see if they have more of that series in their stash, or you could shoot stock photography yourself. Maybe the angle isn't exactly what you were looking for, or an arm is pointing in the opposite direction, whereas the rest of the pose is exactly as you wanted it. Although stock photography is really great, occasionally you can't always find exactly what you need reference wise.