Curious Labs Poser

Curious Labs' Poser program is a 3D art and animation program targeted at the home user. Poser uses a subset of the Alias Wavefront object file format natively and a text-based markup for content-files which has drawn a number of creative individuals to the program for what amounts to its 'hackability.'

As Poser does not allow for the original modelling of objects except in the simplest of senses (stacking cubes, etc), a community of merchant/artists creating, buying, and selling content for the program has sprung up into existence. Many websites focused on sharing information, art, and marketing Poser content can be found online, including Renderosity, DAZ3d, and PoserPros.

By late summer of 2003, Poser was in its 5th version for both PC and Macintosh platforms, though some controversy surrounds whether or not version 5 was ready for release at that time.