Poser? (Body drawing packages)

[epepke]

I got a recommendation on this forum from someone who used Poser and said that there was a freeware package that did most of the things. Unfortunately, that was before the Great Forum Upgrade, and I can't access my old PMs, and a casual google only shows the full package, which is expensive.

I need something to draw simple, low-weight images such as the attached ones of a waiter and a customer. The exact style doesn't matter much, but they need to be cartoonish so that they will shrink down to <3K in GIF format. They should be able to express poses and facial expressions. Very short animations of three or four images would be a big plus.

This is for a free collaborative foreign language program that is just ramping up. The discussion is here: http://www.iidb.org/vbb/showthread.php?t=140567&page=1&pp=25

 

[jnelso99]

Might be overkill (Poser definitely would be overkill), but check out Blender: http://www.blender3d.com/

See if it meets your needs by reading the user guide (which I just glanced through and there is a simple character animation tutorial): http://www.blender3d.org/documentation/htmlI/

Can't beat the price.

I own Poser and I'm sure to finally get to playing with it one of these days (he says after owning it for a year or so...).

If the figures are as simple as the attachments, maybe just use a paint program like Paint Shop Pro and find a program that will assemble images into an animated gif (can't remember if PSP can do that on its own or not).

 

[TragicMonkey]

Someone once levelled the criticism that people rendered in Poser all look like corpses. I think they're right.