Time for my regular pick of Poser and DAZ Studio items released in the last last month. I also add some software picks at the foot of the post.
Science fiction:
Trash Bot from TheAntFarm.
FAC-CH18-07 for DAZ Studio, a flying aircraft carrier. Aircraft not included, but you’ll probably want to add more futuristic-looking planes.
SE Cyborg Maintenance Bay for DAZ.
LI Space Cadet Hair for Genesis 9.
Gothic and horror:
Creature HD Morphs Collection for Genesis 9. Looks a bit more useful for horror than sci-fi.
Steampunk:
Steampunk Alley by Stonemason.
Fantasy:
RawArt’s Grundlebukk Troll for Genesis 9. Not HD, which is good.
Koara Koala for Genesis 9. Perhaps more ‘horror’ than ‘fantasy’. But you may be able to make the face less alarming.
Faeryl’s Horns for Genesis, M4 and V4. Free.
A fantasy Battlefield for DAZ, free.
Free Centaur 8 GF8 ‘skins’. Including giraffe and leopard.
Storybook:
Boutique Front Wonderland for DAZ.
dForce MB Peasant Dress for G9F including the shoes.
Toon:
Free TDSOA Toons poses.
Figures and parts:
James 9, a free figure preset for Genesis 9. Clothes not included.
Z Pose Library Old Age Mega Set for Genesis 9 and 8 Female. Despite the name, the previews also shows males taking the poses.
Swim Goggles for Genesis 9 and for G8 Male.
Shaders:
Wrinkle It! for DAZ Studio. A wrinkle cloth shader.
Landscapes and environments:
LOWREZ People At The Beach, for populating modern beach scenes.
Animals:
Sloth by AM. A real creature.
Songbird ReMix: Orioles of the Old World.
Historical:
Ancient Greek Wall Segments, only suitable for background use.
AJ Ancient Roman Pool for Poser. A touch basic, but now we have AI makeovers.
Wooden Church Ruins 1. A Viking stave church, collapsed.
400 BCE, though more useful for a Wild West scene ‘down Mexico way’.
Caribbean Street Bundle, also useful for the southern seafront cities of the USA.
dForce Long Sleeved Business Suit, 1940s style.
Building On Fire for DAZ Studio. Would suit historical events such as the London Blitz during the Second World War.
Scripts and helpers:
Auto Rigger Pipeline for DAZ.
The new SDK beta for DAZ Studio 6 beta, for plugin makers.
DAZ 2 RizomUV and back… “send any mesh from your DAZ scene directly into RizomUV for UV editing, then seamlessly reimport the updated UVs without losing your materials, morphs, pose, or Sub-D settings.”
Ghost Dynamics 2 for figure interactions that involve touching.
A free Nursoda figures and clothing filter for Everything v1.5 beta. Quickly view all Nursoda items in your Poser runtime, using Everything, with drag-drop to Poser.
Tutorials:
The freeware Everything 1.5 beta setup tutorial, for use with Poser and DAZ.
dForce Weight Maps in DAZ Studio: Better Cloth Control.
Resources:
Need inspiration for your movie / comic scene etc? Frame By Frame offers scene by scene breakdowns of well-known movies. For more inspirational screencaps see the websites at caps-a-holic and FilmGrab.
There’s a new Blender ‘open movie’, Singularity. Screengrabs are freely re-usable, but the source assets are only available to Blender Cloud members.
Five free commercial-use Tolkien fonts and a fine free Photoshop script to jitter the baseline for your lettering, so it looks more handwritten. Tested and works well.
Software:
DAZ Studio 6 beta (free) and Poser 14.0.372. (paid).
Poser 12 is still $29 at Clip Studio’s Graphixly store.
Everything 1.5 beta adds drag-and-drop to Poser/DAZ, tagging and more. Makes setting up a Poser scene so much more pleasant. Free, and effectively a replacement for the much-missed PzDB.
The venerable 3D software Modo is no more, but now offers a Modo End of Life Perpetual License to its paid users… “for a limited time, a Modo EOL perpetual license exclusively for perpetual licence holders who had an active Modo maintenance agreement as of November 7, 2024, the date of our wind-down announcement.” Not to be confused with the 2D animation software Moho, which is still alive.
Generative software:
All free, as is the way of local AI tools.
At last, the ‘holy grail’ for Flux2 Klein in Edit mode! ComfyUI-PixelDriftFix: a Comfy node that fixes pixel drift for image editing AIs. What goes in now matches what comes out, in terms of an exact 1:1 overlay when brought back into Photoshop. Tested and working nicely with Klein 4B GGUF (commercial use). 4B GGUF workflow is here.
Flux Klein 4B/9B Multiple Angles workflow for ComfyUI. Works wonderfully once you fix an OS-specific bug in the file-paths of one of the generation modules, which breaks the workflow in Windows. My fixed version of the ComfyUI workflow is here.
Untested by me as yet, ComfyUI-Image-Conveyor a… “ComfyUI image queue that lets you drag in unlimited images, organize them visually, and process them sequentially across queued runs”.
Also untested by me, but some reader may be interested in a working Flux2 Klein pipeline for real-time webcam stream processing.
ShrinkComfy, new software to shrink your ComfyUI .PNG output images while keeping your workflows inside them. For this also look at the mature Windows desktop freeware imBatch which does the same resizing, but can also blur or add a watermark if required.
In generative audio, the wonderful Stable Audio 3.0 Small SFX for prompt-to-SFX generation. Tested and working. Commercial use. The larger 9B also works nicely for electronica / Eno-style ambient music production (up to six minutes), and is super-fast enough to be fun.
The model Ideogram 4.0 has been released and is causing a lot of fuss for its exact typography and ability to place elements exactly in a picture composition. Sadly it requires large twin models running at once, as well as a huge Clip, plus a VAE. It can only sensibly be run by those with an expensive 24Gb VRAM graphics card.
That’s it for May 2026. More picks next month!