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The article "Beautiful People" (May 2004, pg. 28) describes how animator Scott Billups used Adobe's Photoshop CS to organize the creation of a pair of digital actors. The article lists some of the tools used to model the "Vitruvian" couple, including Curious Labs' Poser and Alias's Maya, though Billups also employed others not listed in the article. Billups notes that the final geometry will be exported to Maya, but that the following software applications and components are among those that were instrumental in the development of the couple.
The base figures used for the man and woman were the DAZ Michael and Victoria models, along with corresponding bead and body morph packages from DAZ (www.daz3d.com). The morph targets for the Michael and Victoria characters were from Zeta Studios (www.zs3d.com). Billups also employed textures from ...