Updated 26 August 2019: Read Bondware’s development update about the upcoming Poser 11. Read Bondware’s official announcement that it has acquired the Poser product line Prior to the buyout, the base edition sold for $129.99: still cheaper than Poser Pro by some margin, even with the current discount. However, another consequence of the buyout seems to be that the product line has been reduced to a single edition once more.Īt the time of posting, neither the Renderosity marketplace nor the standalone website listed Poser 11 itself for sale: only the Pro edition. Poser Pro 11 now available at a discount, but no sign of Poser 11 itselfīondware has also cut the price of Poser Pro “for a limited time”: version 11, previously sold for $349.99, is now available for $199. User reaction to the buyout has been largely positive, with one poster commenting that the software was “finally in the hands of a team that cares about it”. The site provides an online marketplace of stock content, much of it for Poser or DAZ Studio, DAZ 3D’s free rival application, and was previously a Poser reseller. Sold to a long-term reseller and Poser content marketplaceīondware itself has a long involvement with Poser, Renderosity having begun primarily as an online Poser community before expanding to cover a range of DCC applications. Smith Micro’s official announcement simply says that it has sold the software to Bondware, and that it plans to focus the company on its core business, wireless technology. Of those, Smith Micro developed the software for the longest period, having acquired Poser from previous owner e-frontier in 2007, launching a new edition, Poser Pro, the following year.īoth products were then updated steadily, each averaging a major release roughly every two years until 2015’s Poser 11 and Poser Pro 11, the last full-point updates.ĭespite the lack of recent development activity, Poser retains a devoted following, particularly in the hobbyist community, although it has also been used for commercial illustration and previs work. The deal makes Bondware the sixth owner in the veteran figure design and animation tool’s 24-year history. The sixth owner for Poser since its original release in 1995 So all things being about equal Poser Pro and DAZ Studio wind up costing about the same for roughly equivalent libraries and functionality. Out of the box Poser Pro has lots of content. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. I couldnt imagine as a hobbyist paying full price but you can bet some hobbyists do and surely some businesses do. Bondware, the parent company of online CG community and content marketplace Renderosity, has acquired the Poser product line from previous owner Smith Micro.
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