How to Create a Virtual Superhero
Superheroes are all the rage now in comic books, movies and on TV. With a little effort, it is possible to make your own CGI virtual superhero by using Poser Pro and Photoshop.
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Things You'll Need
- Poser Pro (3D figure design and animation software)
- Photoshop
- 3d Clothing
Instructions
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Go to a site like Renderosity or Digital Creations to download some clothing items for Poser Pro's Simon or Sydney characters that could work as a superhero outfit (see Resources). In this case, we will get something from Renderosity for the Simon character. Usually, such files have been compressed to speed up the download, and you will need a program like Winrar to extract them to their correct location (see Resources).
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Open Poser, then go to the "Library" folders on the right and load the Simon character. Then, while still in the library, go to the folder that contains the outfit you loaded. In this case, the outfit is in several pieces and will have to be loaded separately onto the character. To do this, select a part you want to add, such as the chest armor, and click on the double-arrow icon at the bottom of the panel. Go to figure and select "Conform To" and tell the dialog that pops up to conform the item to Simon.
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Go to the "Poses" section of the library and apply a pose to the character. When you do this, make sure you have Simon selected. If it offers a chance to hide unnecessary body parts, click that as well. Save your work.
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Go to "Scripts" and "Utility" and click "collectSceneInventory."
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Click on the down arrow in the dialog box that pops up and select "Copy All To Folder." Name your new folder and click "OK." This will create a folder containing a copy of all the textures used both for this character and the clothing items on him. This is important because you will be making alterations to the textures in Photoshop, and you want to leave the originals intact. Save and close Poser.
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Open Photoshop. Open the files you want to repaint in Photoshop. You may not want to alter them all. In this case, we will open the chest plate texture. Then, use the tools to paint over what you want to change. Here, we will use the paint brush to remove the number 37 and text in something different. Do this with any texture you want to change and then save them as JPEGs, appending a "B" to the end of the file name so you will know this is the altered version. Close Photoshop.
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Open Poser, then open the file you saved before. Now click on the tab at the top to change to the material room. Select the part you want to replace the texture for. Click on "Simple" and then click on the texture preview.
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Browse to the folder where you saved the new version of the chest texture and click on it. Do this for each body part you want to change the texture for. Change back to the Pose Room and click "Render." And, there you have it, a virtual superhero.
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