The latest edition of the Poser/DAZ/Carrara friendly magazine 3D Art Direct is now available…
Monthly Archives: November 2012
Gruggle Monk
A new original toonimal character, over at 3D Universe, the Gruggle Monk for DAZ Studio or Poser… for free…
Librarian for Lenore
I was starting to think that the excellent Lenore and the Raven characters had sunk without trace amid the tidal waves of V4 variants, but here’s the new The Raven Library bundle of clothes / props / poses, from third-party developer 3D-GHDesign…
iClone 4.2 Pro for free
iClone 4.2 Pro for free, currently on a free cover-disk with the leading British PC magazine PC Pro (Jan 2013 edition). I’ve looked at the blurb in the magazine itself, on a news-stand, and it appears to be the full uncrippled version. iClone, for those who don’t know, is the excellent real-time 3D software (no rendering time, as it runs on a videogame engine). It takes a little learning, but no more than DAZ Studio does, and the learning resources are vastly better than for DS.
It’s perfectly possible to create excellent results once you know what you’re doing with it. Here’s a couple of my iClone real-time renders…
3D Universe website makeover
Daz/Poser toon specialists 3D Universe have given their website a makeover. It looks as though it’s configured for an iPad now…
Some bits and bobs appear to have been lost in the move, like the free Mimic files for Noodle the Cat. Plus, their webmaster broke all their inbound product Web links with a new page URL system — and is wasting all that prior traffic by just serving up a “404 not found” notice for the broken links.
50% Renderosity sale – on now
Finally, just when most everyone’s run out of PayPal cash… the 50% Renderosity sale is on, for 26th November 2012 only. Ends at 11:59pm (Renderosity System Time).
Use their coupon code to save 50% on your purchase of $50 or more of content. Not valid on already-discounted sale items.
“When in Rome…”
An interesting new scene for DAZ Studio or Poser this week: the Roman Museum Hall. You can presumably also remove the Roman props and replace them with your own exhibits. A giant kitsch plushie or a Lovecraftian beastie spring to mind 😉
50% off at Teknology 3D
50% off the entire range on DAZ Studio and Poser content on the Teknology 3D store (excludes new releases).
Use code: bf2012 at checkout and save 50% off your order. Expires Monday.
I note that Teknology 3D has 3D merchant-resource clothing kits for 3D Universe’s Sadie and Sam. These work with Daz’s free Hexagon software, and look nicer and perhaps a bit easier to work with than their DAZ store equivalents?
40% off 3D Universe toons
A healthy 40% off all the 3D Universe (aka 3DU) characters and animals in the Cartoon Universe section over at the DAZ Store. Sale ends Friday.
Steampunkers and some types of webcomic-makers might like to note the rather nice toon steampunk-friendly sofa that’s in the (currently) $4.77 “Staci – Couch Potato” pack…
Renderosity Christmas Contest
Entries are open now for the Renderosity Christmas Contest. The 2012 theme is “Magical Holiday”…
Monstrous freebie
Cool free original toon sci-fi character, for Poser. Sam-anime…
Buried up to the neck in soil, and with a few leaves added, his eye and neck could also become a “mutant plant” character.
Octane for Poser/DAZ – videos
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A first look at the upcoming OctaneRenderer render plugin for Poser, showing the workflow…
It’s also coming for DAZ Studio 4.5 too…
Carrara video training – 60% off
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Another good deal has cropped up, in the current DAZ sale. A healthy 60% off the cost of video training DVD Learning Carrara 8 (10.5 hours), and also 60% off the more advanced video tutorials set
Jack Tomalin 30% off
DAZ has 30% off today, on most of Jack Tomalin’s store on the DAZ Store (although not quite “entire”, as his excellent Bandstand is missing).
DAZ’s “Black Friday” becomes “Black November”.
DAZ’s “Black Friday” offer is open early, and on now at the DAZ Store. In fact, it stretches right through to the end of November. Currently it’s divided into…
* “Door Busters”: a “first 100 customers only” Door Busters bundle that didn’t appeal to me. Mixed bundles rarely do, personally, especially at $27. Now if they had a “pick and mix” at that price, where you could get any $100 of content at $27, I’d probably go for that.
* “Shocker”: nice, if you don’t already have the content. The format seems to be one content developer doing a 30% discount. Currently it’s 30% off a lot of April YSH’s hair — but I already purchased the Lenore hair, when it first appeared, along with all the Lenore items.
* “Fast Grab”: a good range of eight items at very nice sub $5 prices, but nothing that really appeals to me at present.
* “Freebies”: ah, not quite. You have to spend $30 on DAZ originals first, then you get to choose a $14.95 pack as your freebie. From a limited range.
All in all… interesting, but it’s the Wish List where the action happens for me these days. I can only see one item there discounted, and that by only $5.