All images from Poser 7 Revealed: The e frontier Official Guide by Kelly L. Murdock.

This is the next in a new series of excerpts from the Thomson Course Technology book Poser 7 Revealed: The e frontier Official Guide. In the next few months, VFXWorld readers will develop the skills needed to create, render and animate scenes and projects using the amazing tools offered by Poser 7. We will offer step-by-step tutorials for each task, followed by projects that allow readers to apply each new skill.

What You'll Do
In this lesson, you learn how to work with the Library to load and save expressions.

Before leaving this chapter, you need to look closely at the thumbnails located within the Expressions category of the Library. These expressions give the character a different facial look and are different from the faces created in the Face Room. You can also make facial expressions automatically using the Talk Designer, which is covered in Chapter 15, "Lip Synching with Talk Designer."

Loading Expressions from the Library
To access the available expressions from the Library, click the Expression category and navigate to the folder containing the types of expressions you want to apply to the current figure. Within each folder are thumbnails of the various expressions. With an expression thumbnail selected, click the Change Expression button at the bottom of the Library palette. The selected expression is loaded onto the figure.

Creating a Custom Expression
When the head element is selected, the Parameters/Properties palette includes all the parameters for creating a custom expression. The available parameters for the head element for creating expressions include those listed in below: