Expert: Andre Hickman - 4/9/2008

Question
I want to use a program to create art for my comic book stories. I'd like the software to resemble the craft of stop motion animation, in which a character(s) could be created, a background and then snap stills of a scene, move the characters, snap another shot, etc. Also the software would have to be able to be export into other programs for lettering and such.
Thanks in a advance!

Answer
Hey Joshua,

The first software that I would point you to is Poser:

http://graphics.smithmicro.com/article/articleview/1156/1/281?sbss=281

Poser 7 is the latest version, and you can do google or yahoo searches to find tons of tutorials and resources.  The style is on you, but you can make your frames look real, or like sketches, or ink drawings, or whatever.  The company that owns the software seems to change quite a bit, but the name POSER has been the same and the software has been improving for the last 10 or more years.  Take a look at the link above, and check out the galleries, and see if it is right for you. Poser is the quickest way to do stop frame, and a great intro software into the world of 3D animation.

Cheers,
Andre