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Version 5 of Poser, Curious Labs' popular character animation tool, comes with features including dynamic cloth, strand-based hair, and photo-based facial mapping. Some additional new features made possible by Curious's new FireFly Renderer, a hybrid micropolygon subdivision surface and raytracing engine, include rendertime smoothing of facets, displacement mapping, 3D motion blur, depth of field, procedural textures, and luminosity, refraction, and reflection.

Although Poser has long been popular with hobbyists, the ...

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