Poser 1.0 was published in 1995 by Fractal Design as a replacement for artist's mannequins.
Poser 2 was released in 1996 with new features like animation and the ability to add props.
Poser 3 was published in 1998 by Meta Creations and the most important features are the new interface as well as several animal models.
Poser 4 was released in 1999 with new figures including conforming clothes and transparency support. One year later, Curious Labs published Poser Pro Pack with the new Setup Room for custom figure rigging.
Poser 5 was published in 2002
and it's the most ambitious release with five new rooms including Material Room, Face Room, Hair Room, Cloth Room and Content Room as well as the new Fire Fly render engine full of new features like ray tracing an support for new procedural materials.
Poser 6 was released in 2005 and Curious Labs was acquired by
e-frontier. This release came with no major improvements except for the inclusion of four new characters, but leaving out the Poser 5 characters. H
owever it was received as an excellent launch due to the big commercial failure of Poser 5 that came full of bugs.
Poser 7 was published in 2006 by e-frontier full of new animal figures as well as new G2 male and female and updated Poser 6 childs. Also Talk Designer for lip-sync animation and Multithreaded rendering was introduced. In 2008 Poser was acquired by Smith Micro and Poser Pro was released with no major features and without the library content. Only 3ds Max, Maya and CINEMA4D integration trough PoserFusion plug-ins are a remarkable feature.
Poser 8 was released in 2009 and Poser Pro 2010 in 2010, both with new user interface and full of new features like new library and Wardrobe Wizard.
Poser 9 and Poser Pro 2012 were published in 2011,
but you already know them.
Poser 10 and Poser Pro 2014 were published in 2013 and Poser Pro Game Dev in 2014 including new game development tools like polygon reduction and unseen polygon removal.
Poser 11 and Poser Pro 11 were published in 2015 and Poser Pro Game Dev was discontinued and all its features incorporated into Poser Pro 11.
And finally I introduce Larry Weinberg, the original creator of Poser. Thank you Larry for creating this great software.
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