Chikako Hatanaka, Art Director at Meshbox Design, told our Content Paradise team the story of Meshbox Design's popular Christmas Poser character, Toon Santa. From the influences on his design to his starring role in the NORAD Tracks Santa program, learn how this popular figure has grown into a Poser holiday icon.

Meshbox Design began as service support for our parent company, Proactive International. Proactive International provides business strategy services to the software industry. It all began with the question "Do you know anyone who can..?" from the CEO of one of our clients. We are a very international group - you don't get in the front door unless you know at least two languages - at least one of them being English. Learn More About Meshbox in this exciting interview!

GrapeVine Productions used Poser to tell the tale of the origin of the comic book icon Green Arrow, with a “Smallville” twist! This Warner Bros. Television Group, The CW, and Sprint initiative marks the first time original animated content has been created for "Smallville” as a marketing extension of the hit show. The campaign was a huge success, ranking as TV Guide’s #1 Hot Download in February.

Before working at Lucasfilm, I was a storyboard artist and compositor for the visual effects house Frantic Films. So, in that capacity, I had worked with 3D and illustration, and tinkered with ways of using both disciplines together to produce art. When I got a job at Lucasfilm in their Internet group, my focus changed...

All the comic frames were realized using 3d models posed in Poser 6, then evenutally special effects added with other common graphic tools.

"This web site was done as a favor and was amazingly one of ten sites to win a trip from Electronic Arts to one of their press conferences in San Fransisco August 2003."

Focused on building commercial applications for the entertainment and education markets, the company is engaged on a number of new ventures for client’s wishing to use the new Atmosphere interactive 3D media, to promote their products and services, and for building branded Internet communities.

Greco Design Studio has created MobileMan® for Portatili SpA. (Portatili meand handables...)

Ingrid Henkel used Poser 5 for the character (and her blanket) in "Heirloom" a Flash animation based on a song of the same name by Bjork.

I am a video producer for Western Michigan University by trade. But my wife and I run a very small Christian non-profit video production company on the side. We do all types of video productions from movies to music videos, but I've always wanted to do some kind of animated series.

One of the best examples we’ve seen of Poser and Flash "Different Web One" can be found at Melon Dezign. The Paris based web design shop has created some remarkable Flash pieces for high profile clients. We’re very pleased with their incorporation of Poser and think you will be as well.

"Poser is essential for my web design needs as far as animation is concerned. I am using Poser to generate my Characters and set up the animation for my Flash Sites as well as simple, real life cartoon animations..."

When we decided to launch a new version for Studios Pixel’s web site we wanted to come up with a visual style never seen before on the internet. Each area in our site is introduced by an animated sequence that brings Pixelman into different surrealistic situations, like running away from a mad dinosaur or floating in the air in a transcendental meditation...

When we began working on the concept of bringing the story of Jack and the Beanstalk to life in 3D, we realized we wanted to tell the whole story interactively, not just use words on a page with 3D illustrations. The characters had to be lifelike, yet also low file size, so they would work well within the web-based interface.