No more than a month in, the project folded and since I was only three weeks into my contract, the product manager asked me if I was interested in working on Poser doing QA testing. I was hired as a contractor at MetaCreations in Scotts Valley, CA to work on a 2D vector-based illustration/painting software called, Expressions. I entered the Poser scene in 1996 and it was by chance. How and when did you become part of the Poser dev team? Which versions did you help create? There are professional animators that use the Poser animation tools like Jesse Griffith, who created clips for broadcast television and his own shorts, Monty Oum and Rooster Teeth on the early seasons of RWBY, and Shane Newville who was on Monty's Poser animation team and is now doing work Dillion Gu/Dillion Goo Studio. I'm very pleased to have had a hand in improving Poser's toolsets and workflow. Come to think of it "Knock yourself out, Poser!" was animated in 2012, which makes it a 10-year-old test scene. I have decades of short animations starting with Poser 3 to now, Poser 13. Wouldn't it be funny if he punched himself in the noggin and fell unconscious to the ground not knowing his own robotic strength? I watched a lot of Warner Bros cartoons and Three Stooges slapstick comedies after school when I was a kid. Every time I opened Poser 9/Poser Pro 2012 Milkman Andy was there standing rigid and staring stoically back at me. When I was testing, I had the idea of poking fun at Andy. It contained 'drop to the floor' ragdoll simulations among other collisions and dynamics. In this case, before Bullet Physics was added as a main feature, there was Poser Physics which was introduced in 2010 as a Python scripted add-on. "Knock yourself out, Poser!" came about from not only my regular testing of the main functionality and features of Poser but also the additional plugins. Inspiration, assets, features used/tested, etc. Tell us a little about the "Knock yourself out, Poser!" short animation. Learn more about this film and the creator in our interview below. Brian leads the Poser QA team remotely from his home southeast of San Francisco. This week we bring you a very short film created in Poser by Poser QA Lead, Brian Romero (AKA Bugs).
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