Poser 9 is the world's easiest way to create art and animation using 3D characters. Poser's simple to learn tools and included characters let you focus on making art, whether you're a professional artist or dabbling in graphics for the very first time. Poser includes over 3 gigabyte of ready-to-pose, fully textured, human and animal figures, basic accessories such as hair, clothing, pose sets, real world props and 3D scene elements.

With Poser 9 you can start creating 3D character art and animation in minutes. With the Face Room, customize Poser characters using facial photographs. Add dynamic hair and clothing. Build a3D scene on Poser's virtual stage with props, lights and cameras. Automatically generate walking or running animations and talking characters. Import motion capture files for even more animated realism. Animate lights and cameras, and then render scenes into photorealistic images and video for web, print, and film projects.

Whether you're a serious artist, illustrator or animator or simply dream of playing with 3D characters, you'll love getting creative with Poser 9!

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Manga Studio EX 4.0, the world's leading comic and manga creation software, delivers powerful cutting edge drawing and coloring tools, making it essential for professional comic and manga artists.

• Choose from over 3,000 screen tones or create your own.
• Resize with no loss in quality by converting your bitmap drawings to resolution-independent vector images.
• Export to a wide variety of formats such as bmp, jpeg, png, psd, tga, eps (monochrome only), tiff, pdf and pict (Mac only).
• Draw naturally with a pen tablet and recreate the sensation of drawing on paper offering an incredibly natural drawing experience.
• Simplify your layout and design process with easy to use features such as a variety of built-in rulers that save you time.
• Color artwork using the integrated tool set enabling you to mix and blend for custom color work.
• Convert 2D images to line and tone data by using the 2DLT Rendering function.
• Import 3D objects and easily transform them into tone and line drawings by using the 3DLT rendering function.
• Add speed line and focus line effects in seconds to express motion or moods.
• Work with precision using unlimited layers.
• Select from a suite of advanced filters to quickly apply distortions and special effects to your artwork.

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Anime Studio Pro is the efficient alternative to time-consuming, frame-by-frame animation. Ideal for content creators, Anime Studio is equipped with the powerful features you need to produce film, video and online media. Complete your creative arsenal today with this essential application.

Make characters, objects and scenes using powerful vector-based drawing tools. Import your scanned drawings and images, including layered Photoshop® files.

Speed up production by automatically converting existing artwork and sketches to fully editable vector drawings.

Design fully rigged characters with multiple views, walk cycles, expressions and more. Access dozens of predesigned components or add your own creations and reusable actions.

Robust bone-rigging tools make character creation and animation easier than ever. Save time with Curve Profile, Follow Path and Stroke Exposure tools, along with automatic line-smoothing features.

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Poser Debut comes with everything you need to get started in 3D. You'll quickly learn 3D with our easy to follow, step by step project guide. And Poser Debut's library includes dozens of ready to pose 3D characters from cute cartoon characters and animals to robots and accurate photo-realistic humans. Poser Debut also includes lots of clothing, props to build scenes, cameras, lights and pre-built poses that can be dropped right onto your characters.

Within minutes you can start to render 3D scenes into gorgeous art and cool animations that will impress your family and friends.

• The easiest way to learn 3D and have fun at the same time!
• Create cool 3D art even if you can't draw or have never taken an art class.
• Affordable, yet fully featured, Poser Debut creates still images or animated videos.
• Poser Debut includes over a gigabyte of ready-to-go 3D content so you can get started right away.
• Learn the basics of 3D and 3D character animation with our easy to follow, step by step project guide.
• Expand your 3D skills with included training videos and tutorials.

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Manga Studio Debut is your all-in-one solution for stunning, ready-to-publish manga and comics. Invigorate your artwork using color, express motion using speed lines, apply dimension with screen tones and add dialog through built-in word balloons. Manga Studio helps you create professional manga and comics from start to finish!

• Complete artistic control. Sketch original art with a mouse or tablet, scan in existing art, or import artwork or graphics to get started. It's easy with Manga Studio Debut!
• Design with attention to detail. Choose from over 2,300 professional-grade screen tones to add dimension, depth and character to your art.
• Invigorate your drawings. Easily color and fill your Manga or Comic using the integrated color set, advanced shading tools, and pattern brushes.
• Bring your Characters to Life. Pre-designed word balloons allow you to quickly add dialog to your creations.
• Apply special effects. Add focus and speed line effects in seconds to express motion or moods.
• Publish your work. Output professional quality manga for print or web in various file formats. Manga Studio Debut exports jpg, bmp, psd, tga*, png*, tiff* and pict* files.
• Get fast results. Perform complicated tasks with a single mouse click. Double your productivity by reusing design elements in a flash!

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Anime Studio Debut is the fun way to create animations, and the ideal solution for first-time animators, hobbyists and digital artists. A Beginner's Mode and Character Wizard allow you to design your own ready-to-animate characters in minutes.

Move your character naturally along the timeline with keyframes, creating smooth animations. Use multiple layers to edit your animation and add sound, special effects and more.

A unique bone-rigging toolset allows you to create a skeleton that can be easily manipulated to animate characters, simple drawings, or objects in your animation.

Draw your own art with intuitive vector-based draw and paint tools or use pre-built content from the Library to get started. Easily import your hand-drawn sketches or existing artwork from popular graphics programs and automatically convert them to ready-to-animate vector drawings.

Export to the most popular web and video formats, or upload and share on YouTube™ or Facebook® directly from within Anime Studio.

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