Poser Tutorial List

Poser Tutorials

An attempt to supplement the Poser manual with information that enlarges, clarifies, and completes the official document.

List compiled by Ted St. John

Poser is a tool for producing and posing human and animal figures for 3D art. Poser is produced by Curious Labs, with many of the figures supplied by Zygote Media Group. Figures, props, morph targets, and artwork are available around the Web, with many of the resources linked from Lannie's Web site.

The tutorials and articles in this collection were created by Poser users from around the web. These tutorials are on other sites. Be sure to check out Poser Arcana, a well-designed web site with a rapidly growing set of superb tutorials.

The information in this list is offered in several categories. I hope this classification makes it easy to find the information you are looking for. Click on the links below to go to the indicated page; use your back button to return. In assigning categories, it appeared to me that many important topics have been neglected. Perhaps by pointing out some of them below, we can convince someone to write the missing tutorials.

Other Tutorial Lists

Lannie's Poser Tutorial links

Omni 3D Tutorial links (old list with many dead links)

Traveler's Tutorials at bbay.com

Poser Forum Online Tutorials

Renderosity Tutorials

Poser tips and tutorials at About.com

Poser tutorials at spaceports.com

The Three Dimensional World

Thinking in three dimensions; keeping track of where you are (tutorial needed!)

How Poser and other programs use three dimensional space (tutorial needed!)

Poser functionality

Assembling your Poser scene (tutorial needed!)

Lighting in Poser: Craig Burton at Poser Arcana

Cameras in Poser (tutorial needed!)

Camera Focal settings (Hafeli)

Lenses at Poser Arcana (Jack Valero)

Positioning Poser characters (tutorial needed!)

Using the library

Magnet basics (Traveler)

Using magnet 1 in Poser; (Traveler)

Using magnet 2 in Poser; (Traveler)

Using magnet 3 in Poser; (Traveler)

Using magnet 4 in Poser; (Traveler)

Using magnets in Poser (Ghost effects)

Applying morph targets in Poser; (Traveler)

Magnets (Spaceports)

Modifying Poser characters (tutorial needed!)

The components of a character (tutorial needed!)

Parenting in Poser (Spaceports)

Getting under Poser's hood

What are Poser characters, really? (tutorial needed, but see next link)

Files and file types in Poser (Doctor Ted at Arcana)

Poser files: what they are and what they do (Spaceports)

Where to put the files in Poser (at Spaceports.com)

Tinkering within Poser (tutorial needed!)

Tinkering outside of Poser (tutorial needed!)

Texture maps (tutorial needed!)

Creating a simple Poser character (Thorne)

Creating a basic figure (Spaceports)

Creating a posable figure (Spaceports)

Creating a new Poser character

Combining characters in Poser by P. Mason

Bushi 3D Poser Toots (creating models for Poser)

Poser props

Finding and creating items to use in Poser (tutorial needed!)

Organizing props in Poser (tutorial needed!)

How to make a posable chain (Spaceports)

Poser and Other 3D Applications

Poser Post Production (tutorial needed!)

Poser backgrounds (tutorial needed!)

Placing Poser figures into photos: Robin Wood at Poser Arcana

Poser figures in Bryce (John Spirko)

Moving Poser figures into Bryce: Robin Wood at Poser Arcana

Using Poser transparency maps in Bryce (tutorial needed!)

Making morph targets in Carrara (Arcady)

Hair in Poser (conventional; Hafeli)

Hair in Poser (conventional; Internet Eye)

Hair in Poser (high end)

Post-production hair painting: Will Kramer at Poser Arcana

Fur and hair in Poser

Clothing in Poser (tutorial needed!)

Painting Poser clothing in post production: Will Kramer at Poser Arcana

Conforming clothing (Nerd)

Integrating clothing onto a figure (Hafeli)

Dressing your figure (Spaceports)

External editing of body parts (tutorial needed!)

Animation Master

Goldwave (audio)

Helper Applications: working outside of Poser

Poser texture parts (Spaceports)

Modifying textures in Painter (Spaceports)

Using transparency maps (spaceports)

Creating transparency maps (spaceports)

Paint programs (tutorial needed!)

UVMapper (Steve Cox)

Morph Manager (tutorial needed!)

CR2Edit (Dan Wilmes)

CR2Edit manual (202 KB zip- Thip)

Objaction-mover/MacConverter

Phi-builder (tutorial needed!)

Compose (tutorial needed!)

OBJto3DM (tutorial needed!)

GetColText (tutorial needed!)

Poser Animation

Posamation list

Secrets of animation (tutorial needed!)

Paths and frames in Poser (tutorial needed!)

Poser's walk designer (tutorial needed!)

Compositing animations (tutorial needed!)

Using Mimic: Craig Burton at Poser Arcana

Make Vicki dance: Craig Burton at Poser Arcana

Improve this Poser tutorial list!

Every Poser user is invited to contribute. Let me know about a link that belongs here, or write a contribution to Poser Arcana.