I was looking for a nice simple child’s balloon a while back, and couldn’t find one I liked for DAZ or Poser. Thankfully WestCPW has a nice shapely free one on Renderosity’s Free Stuff today…
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Miki 4, due in Sept
The new Miki 4 figure for Poser, coming in late September 2012 via the Content Paradise store…
“Miki 4 is a completely re-sculpted body morph of Miki 3, with Poser’s powerful Vertex Weight Mapping for superior bending, and posing and Subsurface Scattering for photorealistic skin.”
* Vertex Weight Mapping for superior bending
* Subsurface Scattering for photorealistic skin
* Poser Face Room compatible
* New Miki 4 face morph
* Has abundant Advanced Body Controls for faster posing
* Joint Controlled Morphs for muscle and tendon movement
* Extensive set of facial expressions and phonemes for synthesized speech
* Fully modeled eyelashes
* All existing Miki 3 textures will work with Miki 4.
But what about the clothing…? Will Miki 3 clothing fit Miki 4?
Renderosity annual user survey
The official Renderosity annual user survey is underway. There’s one version for content vendors, and one for buyers.
Nursoda releases new standalone characters
Nursoda’s website may have vanished, but he’s still releasing cool standalone figures for DAZ Studio and Poser. Nos is his latest release, out today on Renderosity. Nos is a kind of hip film star from one of those French art-house movies, but given a toon look. I kind of like it. Could be great for someone producing a graphic novel and in need of an off-the-shelf central character…
Nos has a partner too, Muggie…
Nos in Poser Comic Book mode… definitely with something of the old silent movie-star Buster Keaton about him.
Mrs. Chunk – free standalone character
Miyre have a new free standalone toon character, Mrs. Chunk. Includes clothing and hair, and works with Poser and DAZ.
Soggy Bottom
A sweet little video demo, new from Nerd 3D, made with DAZ Studio…
Older and elderly characters for DAZ and Poser
Tired of all those buff young twinkle-toes and body-builders? Need some mature characters for your runtime and your art?
Welcome to my survey of the best of the older and elderly people available for Poser, DAZ, and DAZ Carrara.
I’ve deliberately chosen the simpler characters and packs, ones that have don’t have ridiculous levels of dependencies. I’ve also left out various hair and beard packs, since I think it’s often better and quicker to paint hair on after a render, using Photoshop or Painter.
Let’s go through the various key base characters for DAZ Studio or Poser…
Micheal 4 (M4):
August for M4 is perfect for your senior Ancient Roman senator or modern businessman…
The free Frank for M4 is also quite distinguished but in a more flinty way, and he comes with facial expressions. But note that he requires the Michael 4 ++ morphs set…
Also worth a look, and also requiring the Michael 4++ morphs, is this more soulful one who could make an excellent learned scribe or monk…
Gramps for Troy for M4 might be useful if you need an ageing astronaut or an armed services veteran…
There’s also a baldness pack for M4 which could be useful. See also the free Balding for M4 and M3.
Micheal 3 (M3):
Charles is a characterful older man for Micheal 3, made from photo textures…
Ralph for M3 has a rounder face…
Need an old biker or a dubious religious guru? Senile Santa 2 should fit such a casting call…
There was also an M3 “aging skin” kit, the Adrian Overlay Texture Kit Vol 3.
Victoria 4:
Dragonstorm’s 1-Click V4 Age Injector for Poser works with Victoria 4, Victoria 4 Elite, Aiko 4, The Girl 4, or Stephanie 4. This gives you morphs, saggy effects on skin, and elderly skin textures. There’s also a DAZ version…
This Injector kit allows you to “age” any Victoria 4 -based character, and without requiring the Victoria 4++ morphs.
One of the most notable elderly women characters, who do require the Victoria 4++ morphs to work, is Mrs Senile Santa…
Another nice characterful choice, for a female ancient warrior woman or starship commander, might be V4 Horizon…
Victoria 3:
Phyllis for V3 is perfect for the homely farmer’s wife…
While Rose for V3 could fit the role of the wise old Queen…
For older black women there is Golden Years V3… Was at RuntimeDNA, now appears to be lost.
Miki 3:
Miki 3 users have Moira for Miki 3…
Miki 2:
Miki 2 users have Elder Grandmother: Huian and the similar Elder Grandmother: Weici…
DAZ Genesis:
There’s a full set of Genesis age morphs…
The old Poser G2 series:
G2 Jessi & G2 James came with the old Poser 6. G2 Koji was a purchasable extra. They can still be useful as background characters that won’t put too much stress on your PC when in a scene…
Koji has Toghrul, an older Mongolian style character…
G2 Jessi has Martha for G2 Jessi…
And those needing a witch or beggar-woman might look at Granny Goatflax for Jessi G2…
Toon and stylised (Micheal 4):
Grandpa for M4 could be quite useful for those needing a comic character, perhaps for over-painting. He does need the Michael 4 Morphs++ and also the Morphus add-on, though. Still works without Morphus, but the head is not quite so toony. He also has extra photoreal textures.
Toon and stylised (all these are standalone characters):
The main stylised older male character is Nursoda’s excellent Doctor Pitterbill. He now has quite a good range of accessories, props, and clothing. My other iClone blog had a full survey of Pitterbill stuff earlier in 2012. Although unfortunately Nursoda’s website (with all its freebies) has been down now for about six weeks. Here’s Pitterbill…
Other stylised older people who are standalone characters include one by the toon specialists 3D Universe, which has a nice standalone Gramps character, along with some basic clothing for him.
There is also a good stylised standalone character that comes with a steampunk-era clothing set…
Female toon characters are notably less well served with character-aging kits. But there is Mature Mavka which is for Nursoda’s standalone Mavka character…
That’s it. Don’t forget to keep taking the old age rejuvenation pills! 🙂
Stock 3D
Added to the sidebar Directory, on this blog: Stock 3D. Stock 3D which sells Poser World models individually, rather than via the $25 “all you can download” membership system that the Poser World website operates. A nice easy way to ‘top up’ with that latest ‘must-have’ model, even if your Poser World membership has expired.
Fluff your cat
Interesting new item at Renderosity from a new vendor, Fluffy Cat for Poser, for $25. Requires Poser, Millenium Cat, Classic Cats textures for MilCat, and RTEJava (for which Fluffy Cat’s readme has full instructions). The pictures are certainly nice, but the description is a bit vague and very minimal…
“Produces a lovely, fluffy and dynamic fur on the Millennium Cat […] made in the Poser hair room.”
Update: Now at Hivewire. The Java appears to be a utility needed to check if you have MilCat in your runtime, and if so then it unpacks matched hair-base geometries?
What’s in the Poser SR3 upgrade?
The Poser Pro 2014 Service Release 3 is out, and is now accessible on the Poser website (there was apparently a bit of a rush, which caused some problems but these appear to have subsided now). The upgrade was officially released on the 13th August 2012. The readme file gives the details of What’s New. It’s a long detailed document, but I noticed these items in particular:
* All-round general performance and stability updates and improvements.
* Import > Collada menu item is no longer missing on first launch.
* Fixed export of PNG to properly unpremultiply the alpha channel and correct for the background color. Fixes color fringing in transparent areas.
* Improved local Content Library search efficiency, for large numbers of Runtimes.
* Secondary reflections and refractions now respect softness.
* Improved quality when combining subsurface scattering, indirect diffuse light and displacement mapping.
* Enabled image sequence support for Make Movie.
* GoZ Plugin Support for working with ZBrush (the GoZ Plugin is free).
* Improved Python add-on support.
* Upgrades to the PoserFusion plugins.
Previous SR2 changes appear to be rolled into this new SR3 upgrade.
Poser Pro SR3 users to get free ZBrush plugin
New details of the Service Release 3 (SR3) upgrade for Poser Pro 2014 and Poser users…
“deep Poser Pro integration with ZBrush”
What’s more, the ZBrush GoZBrush plugin will be free. It’s the software that lets ZBrush ‘talk’ to Poser…
“The GoZ [GoZBrush] plugin is available within SR3 at no cost for Poser Pro 2012 users”
Here’s a video showing GoZ at work with DAZ Studio Pro. It now looks like Poser is set to get the same functionality, soon…
SR3 should be available from today, at the official Poser website.
3d Art Direct
A new issue of 3D Art Direct magazine, the free magazine with a focus on 3D sci-fi art made with hobbyist software…
Desperately in need of a better typeface, but otherwise a very good magazine.
Enchanted Island freebie
A nice freebie at the DAZ Store — Enchanted Island, featuring Easter Island -style ancient carved stone heads. Normally $11.95, but currently free. PC and Mac installers for Poser, 150Mb.
Reality 3 for Poser, at SIGGRAPH
Reality 3 has been announced for Poser at SIGGRAPH 2012…
“SIGGRAPH 2012 attendees can get a special sneak-peak of the upcoming Reality 3 for Poser, launching globally in November 2012. Reality 3 for Poser gives Poser users access to the power of LuxRender, providing unbiased, physically accurate, and GPU rendering to help artists produce gorgeous hyper-realistic illustrations and images.”
Price is mooted to be $59.95 at launch.
Talking of ‘physically accurate’, currently on a special sale at DAZ is the photoreal V4 Elite Texture: Amy for just $8.99. Her textures come with installers for DAZ Studio, Poser, and DAZ Carrara. If you already have the V4 Elite bundle, you already have the Amy textures packs.
3D Universe Toon Crab
A new 3D Universe toon character for DAZ Studio or Poser is always a treat, and the new Toon Crab is no exception. Available now, on the DAZ Store…
