poser question

i was just wondering,im thinking about getting poser and learning how to use the program and from what i heard it is a pain in a butt to learn it which i don't mind challenging programs,just wanted to know what kind of things besides animations can be done with this program ???if so does anyone have a website for me to look at what poser can do...??
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If im not making any sense please forgive me i've been up since 7:00am since weds..
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poser in SL can do animations poses and works well as a test platform for clothing / skins

also theres daz studio which i understand is free and does simmilar things, and some other free bvh animation makers floating aroud the animations fourm (which this question would be more apt over there)

poser outside of SL is a verry handy tool if your into game design, 3d art ect, basicly the same things it does for SL but on a much grander scale, that being said theres nothing poser can do that a good 3d modeler/animator can do, its just abit less of a PITA becuase your only dealing with one prart of a process

Osgeld pretty much said it all, but just to summarize real quick, the strict answer to the specific question here is nothing. Poser is a character animation program. That's it.

As for what can be done with those character animations, the only limit there is your imagination. Any project that utilizes the human form can incorporate Poser as part of its creation process. That includes, print materials, games, films, choreography, etc.

That having been said, be aware that in the professional industry, Poser is considered by most to be more or less an amateur toy, not a professional tool. It's pretty easy to spot something that was done in Poser a mile away if you know what to look for.

Personally, I applaud anythig that brings 3D to the masses, and Poser certainly does that, but as Osgeld said, there's absolutely nothing it can do that can't be done in any good 3D modeling/animation package (like Maya, 3DS Max, Lightwave, etc). It's just that since Poser does only one thing (character animation), and those other programs do hundreds of thousands of things, Poser is a lot simpler out of the box to use for that purpose. Work produced in Poser generally won't have the flexibility and finesse of work done with a more professional tool, but it can be pretty decent with a good operator at the helm.



http://www.e-frontier.com/article/articleview/1597/1/281?sbss=281

What do you intend to do in the first place?
I normally have some task to do, then go and look for the tool that fits the bill. Instead of picking up a tool and wondering what else I can do with it.