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If you’re a fan of SmithMicro’s Anime Studio tools, you can now get them in the Mac App Store via direct download.  For a mere $29 (a far discount from the usual $49), you can download the app directly to your favorite Mac and start creating your own animated masterpieces.

Anime Studio Animation Software – Official Website.

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Smith Micro has just announced availability of Poser 9 and Poser Pro 2012 for PreOrder, with full availability on September 20th.  In addition, they’re launching a contest called the “Iron Render Master Championship” on their website where users can go vote for one of 4 images each created by master poser artists, with the winner being chose for the Poser Pro 2012 box coverart.

“For over 15 years Poser has consistently been one of the most flexible and intuitive programs available for artists working in the 3D industry,” said Brian Haberlin, award-winning comic book artist whose innovative technique has been highlighted in popular titles including Spawn, X-Men, Daredevil, Spiderman and Aria. “Poser automates what were once pain-staking design functions so that I can focus on the creative side of bringing my characters to life.”

New features include subsurface scattering, OpenGL rendering, and new weighted rigging.  Get the full details after the break.

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SmithMicro has just updated their popular Poser character animation product to version 2010, adding support for HDRi, 8 new human figures, and over 2.5GB of included content.

Poser Pro demystifies the art of character animation. Poser Pro is your passport to an experience that is second-to-none. Easy to master tools let you build 3D illustrations and animation on Poser's virtual sound stage. Animate 3D characters and integrate gigabytes of Poser content with the tools in your production pipeline. Poser Pro 2010 saves time and resources for professional artists and production teams with its content library, improved lighting and powerful rendering technology. Start creating professional 3D art and animation in minutes.

Available from their online store right now for $200 USD.

via Poser – Complete 3D figure Design and Animation.

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SmithMicro has just released a new Service Pack for their Poser8 product which includes everything in SR1 and their recent hotfix, along with several other improvements.  The biggest addition is official support of OSX Snow Leopard and Windows7, but the complete list of changes is huge.  Just look at some of the changes in the “Rendering” portion:

• Improved memory handling when rendering.
• Area Render renders over previous rendered image.
• Eliminated halos or splotches around objects when rendering with depth of field.
• Fixed FFRender crash when rendering raytraced reflections.
• Improved FFRender conclusion of render process
• Fixed spots that can occur during IDL renderings.
• Skipped buckets during multi-threaded rendering resolved.
• Improved IDL performance with bump/displacement maps.
• Improved quality of indirect lighting renders.
• Improved IDL rendering speed.
• Improved rendering of transparent surfaces in IDL.
• Improved IDL results at lower quality settings.
• Fixed outer border artifact in rendered images.
• Indirect Light Quality setting now persistent when saving render settings.
• Artifacts in raytraced shadow improved.
• Adjusted sampling pattern to improve quality of raytraced shadows.
• Ambient Occlusion material node includes a checkbox to select if it should be active in IDL renders.

Get the full list of changes in the Readme (Mac and Windows), and get the new patch on their site.

Poser 8: Easily Create 3D Character Art and Animation.

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