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December 2025 Update
After nearly 30 years in 3D graphics and 8 years running my freebie site, I am sad to announce that on February 15th, 2026 PoserDirect will close down.
During that time I’ve had the privilege of working with some brilliant people (especially Vanishing Point) but for various reasons it's now time to move on.
Some of which are detailed below, but until then all your favourite freebies are still avaliable here for downloading.
1. Economics:
While operational and hosting costs have increased, over the last few years sales of 3d models and donations have been decreasing.
In particular it's all those 'little' extra charges, like SSL certs, that's made things financially untenable.
2. The rise of AI:
Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of AI. Particularly as some of these tools allows creators to do things in minutes that would take months to make.
But it's a technology that I, like many other content creators and vendors, can't compete with.
Especially how it often can make content for free, which directly risks the income of creators who choose to sell their skilled efforts.
Income that covers not the costs of creators, but also supports brokerages as well. Plus, as can be increasingly seen with video social media, AI can easily become Orwell called a versificator.
A tool that distills human creativity into 5 seconds of slop.
3. Changes in Artistic Direction
In part it's the tactility and tangibility compared to the mostly virtual nature of CGI, but over the last few years I've increasingly found making real world stuff to be more fun than 3D alone.
In particular making furniture with traditional tools, but also combining that with technologies like laser cutters & 3d printers.
Plus I've been exploring other new creative areas as well, such as ceramics and 360 & drone photography.
While some of it can have a place in a 3d workflow, especially 360 photography which is great for making HDR backdrops, that has to be done in conjunction with a full time day job in healthcare.
All of which is tricky to balance and it's often hard to know which direction to take.
So how will this affect you ?
With freebies, some sites might take some on of the freebies here and most should still be available via the wayback machine.
But if you want to host some feel free, though please remember to credit the original creators if you do.
With products, while the store here closed a while back those products remained so customers could download them again for free if needed. But now those products will disappear for good when the site closes.
Though if you've bought stuff at other stores, such as Vanishing Point, Daz (via other sellers), Renderosity, Turbosquid etc, those will remain in your accounts. But you'll have to contact those stores directly to get repeat downloads.
Finally I'd just like to say a massive thanks to everyone who's ever supported PoserDirect and Sparkyworld (my other now closed 3d site).
I also hope that you've had fun using what others and I've enjoyed creating over the last couple of decades. It's been a good ride!
Al [Mr Sparky]
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[Poser Render]
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Rescue Respirator
It's not quite like the real thing, those ones made by ILC Dover are way cooler, this model is just inspired by them.
It comes as a .PP2 (Poser prop flavour) with external extra crunchy .OBJ, (983K zip file) and coloured in textures.
[Click Here To Download]
Works in Daz Studio, Vue, Max, Lightwave etc and released under Creative Commons (BY 4.0).
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[Keyshot Render]
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