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Today’s Post is Guest Written by Content Paradise Seller & Poser Developer DarkEdgeDesign.
The Developer Trade Secrets video tutorial series is about total education, anyone from the general hobbyist to the professional 3d content creator will walk away with quite a few new and essential tools in their utility belt; providing everyone the ability to make superior 3d art and content.
I cover some of the bare bones basics that everyone should know, such as smart-parenting props, inherit bends, editing pose files and creating injection pose’s; but the majority of these videos also cover a multitude of high end use techniques that that are essential to creating and selling 3d art and content. No matter your skill level or your time behind the desk, there is something here that everyone can learn from.
I show you how to use top notch tools and apps that are available to us today. Some of these include ZBrush, Normal and Displacement maps, Morphing Clothes, Dependent Parameters, Super Conforming figures and props, Poser File Editor, Extended Remote Control (ERC), Binary Morph Editor and Pose Morph Loader to name just a few.
The knowledge you will gain radically increases your quality immediately, providing you not only the tools for specific problem solving techniques; but the insight and knowledge to apply these ideas to anything you wish to create.
The knowledge shared here is the accumulation of 5 years of being a content creator for Poser. I have successfully been selling content through Content Paradise, Runtime DNA and have entered into contractual agreements with Smith Micro for creating specialized content.
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We’re celebrating the end of winter with a big sale at Smith Micro’s online store.
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One tip I’ve heard to making your New Year’s Resolutions stick is to make them easy to quantify. Read: “I will do 15 situps a day and eat only one cupcake a week,” as opposed to “I will have ripped abs and eat a more healthful diet.”
In that spirit, I have planned to answer at least one Question Jar a month on the blog. Here’s this month’s:
Will Manga Studio change the Hand tool to act more like Photoshop’s? So the tool becomes temporary once you let go of the button and goes back to the previous tool instantly. This will allow users to not have to constantly switch back and forth every single time?
It’s the last day of 2010. It’s been a heck of a year, if I must say. We started this blog. I tried my hand at fear-based writing; what?!? I said I tried. And then (thank goodness!) there were guest bloggers.
Poser Pro 2010 wowed. Anime Studio learned to obey the laws of physics and StuffIt gave us all sorts of destinations, like SendStuffNow. And Miki 3.0 even made an appearance 
Butterfly Hunter by Ian Ambrose
When I was a kid, I really wanted to believe in Santa, but once I understood that traveling in different time zones didn’t really mean traveling back in time, I became skeptical.
How could one man and his reindeer possibly visit all the houses in the world in one night? (This was before it occurred to me that Santa might have super powers, but that’s another story for another time.) Well, if I knew that NORAD tracked Santa, it may have made for a more convincing argument.
Even with all the calendars and reminders I set up for myself, I’ve never been accused of being too organized. It just dawned on me the other day that it had been months since I had answered a Question Jar question on the blog!
When I checked it, I thought this was most appropriate, what with Miki 3 just being released:
I own Poser Pro 2010. I see a lot of content I would like for the character Miki. This isn’t in my program anywhere, and I can’t find the figure in Content Paradise. Where do you find the digital figures for Poser?
I talked to Mr. Steve Cooper, the product manager for Poser, and he gave me the lowdown. “Try out the search tab in the Poser Pro 2010 library. There’s a toggle to search on Content Paradise, and if he enters “Miki” into the search field, he’ll see a bunch of content items for her, including the figure.”
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, but unfortunately I wasn’t in town this year. So this weekend I had Fakesgiving complete with turkey, family and friends. It was a hit–it’s gonna be an annual event. Isn’t it great when things come together, even when they don’t happened as they’re originally intended?
Miki 3 hit some snags in her release this year, but now that she’s out, things seem to be falling into place very nicely. Can you believe this beautiful render with Miki 3 by Daniel Scott Gabriel Murray?
November has come and gone (Geez, where did it go?) and with it, our theme of gratitude. That’s not to say that we aren’t grateful the rest of the year–no sir! As promised, we’re sending all the people who submitted to the theme a little something: an ImagineFX calendar so they can see our gratitude all year long.
We had a great time with our art project too. There was music, someone made pumpkin cupcakes (soooo delicious), and we had more magazines and glue sticks than you could shake a stick at. Here is our creation:
Whether or not you celebrate the holidays, you’re probably bombarded with ads and messages to buy people gifts. (I plead guilty, your honor.) But what about you? Don’t you deserve something awesome? We think so.
So in honor of the holiday season, we’ve put together a creative gift basket that we’re giving away. It’s got so many goodies, I almost can’t stand it! For serious: It’s worth more than $2,000!
One lucky person will win Manga Studio EX 4, Poser Pro 2010, Anime Studio Pro 7, tutorial books and DVDs to help your creative process, loads of other software, a 3D mouse, a year subscription to Animation Magazine, ImagineFX, 3D World, and Computers Arts (which isn’t pictured), and other goodies. To see the full prize list and values, click here.
The only thing you have to do to enter is answer some questions about the products you’re going to win. It’s an easy quiz, I swear! It’s only six questions (OK seven if you include the one about your email address), and I even include some links to find the answers if you get stuck.
Here are the rules, quick and dirty: Enter only once. The quiz is open from now until December 9, 2010 at 11:59 pm Pacific Time. Once you answer, you’ll be entered into the drawing, which will go down December 10, 2010 and the gift basket will be mailed that day. Oh, and it’s not really a basket…it just has such a nice ring to it
Happy holiday/gift-giving season from us at here at Smith Micro. Now go check out the quiz!
Update! We added a super-awesome gift to the prize pack: Check it out!
