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£20 Humble Bundle: Poser 12, Moho 12.5 (old, but imports from Poser), Paintstorm and more

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A very good £20 Humble Bundle, currently live. The Ultimate 2D and 3D Artist Bundle.

* Moho 12.5. An old version (formerly Smith Micro’s Anime Studio). The Poser Moho import was bjorked in Moho after Moho version 12.5. I assume the 12.5 they’re now selling will interface with Poser, and that feature hasn’t been freshly removed for the bundle.

* Poser 12. Again, I assume Moho will recognise it? I seem to recall it just imports saved Poser scene files, rather than hooks into the runtime?

* Painstorm Studio and its more hand-holding sister Realistic Paint Studio. Two most-excellent digital painting applications for the desktop. Though I have to say I’m still waiting to get to the registration servers for my recently purchased Realistic Paint Studio. I tried absolutely everything, and it was always unresponsive. So you may not be able to get Realistic to register. I had no such problem with Paintstorm on the same PC, which uses exactly the same registration system and is from the same maker.

It’s for a medical disaster relief charity, so you can of course pay more if you can afford it. A Poser 12 licence alone would cost you $29 (currently) from the Clip Studio store Graphixly.

Pick up the new free Vue as well, as it can still talk to Poser 12 (if you also have 11 installed) and you’d thus get easy export of saved Poser scenes to a wide range of formats and software.

$99 for Poser 13, if you have a licence for any previous version

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Come Home to Poser offer…

Until 4th November [2024], users of any previous Poser version can upgrade to Poser 13 for just $99.

A good deal, and I guess it will also put you on much higher on the upgrade track for the forthcoming Poser 14. By “any previous Poser version” I assume they also mean Smith Micro versions?

I doubt it will go lower than this on Black Friday (29th November, this year). Of course, once Poser 14 has been out a while, it might become a $50 bargain at some third-party cyber-store. But I’m guessing that may be a while yet.

DAZ Studio Premiere – subscription version

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DAZ Studio has split into free and subscription versions. DAZ Studio 4.23 Premier ($18.98 a month at present, with auto-renew) has features not present in the free version. “Available exclusively to DAZ Premier members, this enhanced version…” etc. The paid features mentioned are…

    – “batch rendering”
    – “new dForce management tools”
    – “advanced sculpting tools”
    – G8 to G9 “pose converter” and G3, G8 to G9 “shape transfer”.

That’s it. Though add-ons also in the subscription are…

* the various game-engine rig exporters
* a Blender “environments exporter”
* the DAZ to Blender Bridge
* the DAZ to Maya Bridge

* There are also various monthly discounts on content, offers, etc.

The Premier web page also appears to imply that the DAZ Install Manager is now Premier-only. Though that would be strange if it were true. Why would DAZ lock their ‘content installer for dummies’ away from the mass of buyers? Anyway, never used it myself… so no loss.

In fact, no loss at all. I wouldn’t use any of the above, don’t much care about G9, or about exports. As for the bundled discounts, I prefer to snipe the 70%/80% discount bargains as they pop up on my Wishlist.

Now, if they’d have had seamless AI integration, that would have been something. With depth and OpenPose renders plugging straight into ControlNet slots, even. Maybe Poser 14 will beat them to that?

Slashed Troglodytes

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A nice 86% sale at DAZ (today) enabled me to complete my Predatron fantasy collection for Poser, by loading up with a lot of Troglodye items for around $12.

I now have the complete: Trogoldyte and variants plus accessories, horns, boots and armour; Goblin and cowl etc; Giant Spider and riding saddle etc, Angor the goat priest and robes; the Warhound, and the Upland Troll.

Poser 12 for £20

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A Humble Bundle Poser 12 $25 (£20) licence key. If you’re rendering then you really want Poser 13 for the improved Blender Cycles rendering and improved OIDN de-noiser. But for those who use Poser for real-time comic-book renders, reference images for manual over-inking and over-painting, or for AI export, then Poser 12 will be fine. P12 is also good for export to the now-free E-on Vue.

However Poser 14 is coming soon, and if they have the sense to add a free integration of Stable Diffusion as a render option… then many will feel like they wasted $25 on Poser 12 over what will then be the must-have Poser 14.

Black Friday is here

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More Black Friday notes.

The usual DAZ and Renderosity sales.

The worthy 2D animation software Moho has 40% off both the Debut and Pro editions. Use the discount code BLACKFRIDAY at the checkout. Moho can also now be had mailed to you on physical media, for those with flaky Internet connections (or none at all).

OctaneRender Studio has discounts on subscriptions. Last time I looked, DAZ Studio could run Octane.

Richard Rosenman’s worthy Photoshop plugins have 40% off. Add the discount code BLK40 at the checkout.

30% off all Mediachance software with BLACK2023 coupon code.

Clip Studio Paint has discounts on both editions. Note also “One-time purchase of version 2 will get a free update to version 3 when that’s released in March 2024.”

TyranoBuilder Visual Novel Studio, 35% off. Steam only.

XP-Pen has substantial discounts on its worthy ‘draw on the screen’ pen monitors.

QuadSpinner has discounts on Gaea pre-orders.

Planetside Software has chosen Black Friday to release of Terragen 4.7. Improved exporting of clouds and terrains.

Renderosity and DAZ start their Black Friday / Cyber Monday sales

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Looks like a fairly hefty Black Friday sale has started on Renderosity. Much of my Wish List appears to be 50% off. Even items that are rarely on a discount sale. DAZ also has a lot of 50% and 65% discounts.

I splurged $13 of my meagre Renderosity store credit on Grotto’s Vampire for Michael 3, and the M4 and V4 Child Dials. Grotto’s Vampire being from the guy who made the quality Mr. Happy, which takes Poser’s real-time comic-book line-art really well. And the morph dials being of potential use in creating hobbits, gremlins, etc that can wear M4 and V4 clothes. And all three being the sort of thing that is likely to vanish, as people’s interest in M3 and M4 fades.

Demos when I get the time to install and test.

Pre- Black Friday deals

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A round-up of pre- Black Friday deals, spotted so far:

E-on’s Vue 3D landscape software has subscription discounts up to 40%. Still imports Poser scenes.

KitBash3D has discounts on the model packs.

Topaz has the usual deal on Gigapixel AI enlarger software.

DxO Nik Collection (worthy Photoshop filters) has 24% off.

Escape Motions is offering 80% of preorder for the new version of Rebelle (version 7) painting software.

PD Howler has discounts.

Serif’s Affinity line of Adobe-clones is said to have 40% off. Be aware the UI’s small font sizes can’t be enlarged. Try before you buy.

And a seemingly perpetual offer, Poser 12 for $49.

ElevenLabs is out of beta

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The leader in AI text-to-speech voice, Poland’s ElevenLabs, is now out of beta. Now supporting 28 languages in ‘Eleven Multilingual v2’. Can be paired with Professional Voice Cloning, which should mean that those with the correct intonations in the input can also get these in the output in another language. They also have a ‘Voice Styles’ library.

The newly added languages are…

Chinese, Korean, Dutch, Turkish, Swedish, Indonesian, Filipino, Japanese, Ukrainian, Greek, Czech, Finnish, Romanian, Danish, Bulgarian, Malay, Slovak, Croatian, Classic Arabic and Tamil.

The Pricing is nice, though no PayPal. Someone making a short 90 minute audiobook per month would need the $22 a month subscription, but the free and starter tiers are very reasonable. Especially so for those making short 12-20 minute animations with Poser and DAZ.

1971s retiring products sale

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The great 1971s has a “Retiring Products” sale on Renderosity. Personally I’d perhaps sell the items as a $10 bundle on another store, or even give the best of them away free as a ‘free trial’ for his content. Rather than delete forever. But there you go.

Some beautiful Poser stuff at 70% off, and his models toon very well in Poser 11+’s real-time Comic Book line-art. As you can see here from the sci-fi Angelfish, one of the models set to be deleted…

You may especially want the Crane (set for retirement), a useful accessory for 1971’s many airships and potentially also for boats.

The Jetbee (set for retirement) is also a nice Dieselpunk craft…

And the SteamBoat (set for retirement) is a useful generic small steam-powered two-man harbour launch.

Poser 11 to Poser 13 for under $100

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You can now go from Poser 11 to Poser 13 for $95.70…

Upgrades to Poser 13 are available for $95.70 until 11:59pm Monday, 31st July with coupon code POSERUPG13 at the checkout.” Valid Poser 11 serial numbers are now also being accepted for the upgrade… “… will accept Poser 11 or Poser 12 serial numbers for upgrade validation”. This wasn’t the case before.

Apparently the Poser 13 serial will be valid for the Mac Poser 13 Early Access, due for release very soon.

Poser 12 for $49

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Poser 12 for $49, apparently. Via Graphixly. The “Windows 10” claim is questionable. It runs fine on Windows 7, though I guess it’s possible you won’t get support-desk help if you’re on older Windows versions. And some store-bought P12 third-party scripts won’t work on Windows 7 (which lacks the required Microsoft encryption modules).

Over at NeoWin, Poser Pro 11.3 is now $79. It was a huge $150 on Renderosity, last week. Ideally a non-photoreal user would want to have both 11 and 12 (they can co-exist happily), and the current discounter prices seem the best way to do that at present.