Sculpt models as unique as you
Easily sketch in 2D for 3D shapes
Play with cameras and animation
Easy to follow tutorials and manuals teach you 3D
Make art for images, print or web

Have fun making a world of 3D art! Enjoy the power of 3D today at a great low price! With Shade art projects come to life in 3D! If you dream of creating cars, buildings, or creatures you can in Shade. Unique easy-to-use design tools makes getting started in 3D a snap. As your imagination grows so does Shade, with a rich toolset to explore and enhance your art. Make movies and produce breathtaking images to show off your creations. Shade is ideal for those new to 3D and aspiring graphic designers.

Poser 6 brings the art of figure design and posing right to your desktop. Start designing and posing immediately, with new high-resolution, fully rigged male, female, boy and girl 3D figures. The rich content libraries have 9 categories, including a wide variety of figures in various preset poses, as well as props, lights, cameras, accessories and materials. Create personalized heads and textures in the Face Room, by using just two photographs. Bring your scenes to life by animating figures, props, cameras, lights, and even material, and eliminate much of the repetitive work by designing and applying motion cycles. New Shadow Catcher feature enables you to separate shadows from their underlying surface, and put them virtually anywhere

* Expand your cartoon universe with Toon Outline -- it draws an outline around the edges of cartoon images

* Ambient occlusion brings your figures to life with a natural lighting environment

* Design and pose pre-rigged figures, or create original figures to suit your needs -- the large library of content and photorealistic textures help you create professional-quality imagery and movies

* Use the Camera controls like a film director would -- set up your ideal camera shots for each image or animation frame

* Realistic Lighting: Add colors, cast shadows, create specific effects, and set the tone for your scene

* Bone Rigging creates fully poseable Poser figures from any 3D object in a few easy steps

* Inverse Kinematics (IK) delivers natural Character motion by modeling the hierarchical interactions of bones and joints

* New OpenGL Hardware acceleration for scene previews, letting you maximize your rendering time

* Photo-based facial mapping for lifelike facial modeling and texture maps

Design realistic faces, pose body parts and applying real-world lighting for incredible 3D animation!

* Windows 2000 or XP
* 500 MHz Pentium class or compatible (1 GHz or faster recommended)
* 256 MB system RAM (768 MB or more recommended)
* OpenGL enabled graphics card or chipset recommended (recent NVIDIA GeForce and ATI Radeon preferred)
* 24-bit color display, 1024 x 768 resolution
* 1 GB free hard disk space (4 GB recommended)
* Internet connection required for Content Paradise
* DVD-ROM drive