Curious Labs

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Curious Labs (www.curiouslabs.de) was a software developer and publishing company based in Santa Cruz, California, that focused on creating artists' tools. The company's flagship product was Poser, a 3D human animation tool for artists. The company was founded in early 2000 by former MetaCreations employees Larry Weinberg, Seath Ahrens and Steve Cooper, with the help of nine friends and colleagues from Meta. Curious Labs purchased all rights and IP for Poser from Metacreations, following the company's exit from the packaged software market. Curious Labs released their own version of Poser 4, Poser 5, Poser Pro Pack, an expansion to Poser 4, Avatar Lab, an avatar editing tool intended for Adobe Atmosphere users, and ProV, an editing system for Viewpoint 3D interactive web content. Curious Labs and all assets were sold by parent company, German based egiSYS, as part of their insolvency proceedings in 2004. eFrontier purchased Curious Labs, Poser and has retained several Curious Labs employees, while assuming publishing responsibilities for Poser.

Seath Ahrens, VP of engineering departed Curious Labs for personal reasons in 2001. Steve Cooper, President, left the company in late 2002 following conflicts with egiSYS' (http://www.egisys.de) board of directors related to the forced premature release of Poser 5. Larry Weinberg, CTO, left the company in 2005.