Is Adobe Fuse a worthwhile addition to your design toolkit?

If 3D is the holy grail of graphics, then human models are the pinnacle of all 3D work. And this is the niche that Adobe's Fuse is looking to serve when it is added to the software giant's Creative Cloud suite. Oddly though, this narrow high-end niche has been dominated over the last 20 years by just one mid-priced program called Poser. Most of you will have heard of it, and it's hard to imagine anyone who has come into contact with 3D that hasn't spent at least a few minutes playing with it at one point or another.

We all know a Poser model when we see it. Its models, images and animations have been used in architectural renderings, infomercials, legal proceedings and medical videos. You've even seen them in some big-budget Hollywood movies as digital stunt doubles. Then of course, there's the seamier side of Poser: the use by adolescent and even adult men, who undress poor 'Victoria' model, putting her in poses that are best reserved for the Kama Sutra.

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