Time for another survey of new content for Poser and DAZ Studio, and also to see if there’s also anything interesting for Vue, Unity, Blender, Cartoon Animator and suchlike. The last such survey here was 15th June, so it’s been nearly eight weeks. What goodies have those weeks brought? Read on…
As usual, freebies are only covered here if they’re commercial use, or are such obvious fan-art (e.g. Star Trek) that no-one would accidentally slip them into a comic or suchlike.
Science-fiction:
Sci-Fi Abandoned Outpost and Sci-Fi Reactor Room.
Container Houses Set from 1971s.
Coflek-Gnorg’s free Vac U Bot.
A free Cyberchair.
Landtrak Explorer Transportation for Poser. Verging on the ridiculous, but at the same time believable.
Sci-Fi Industrial Complex for SketchUp.
Nibir Auditorium. I’m fairly sure this is a re-listing. But a good place to observe your herd of Elder Gods from.
GP Elder God HD. Definitely not a Lovecraftian Elder God, but a pretty good monster or alien herd-beast.
Steampunk:
A free Prohibition Corner. A 1930s gangster distillery, but also useful “clutter props” for a steampunk mad scientist lab.
MS20F Tower of Time. Also available for Vue.
Mercer 1911 for Poser.
Toon:
Ronk Aednik. Gardening addons and a cute snail, for Nursoda’s Ronk. Also free from Nursoda, his Brom Blackberry.
Need strange alien intruders in Ronk’s garden? Alien Toon Plants for Unity. I have no idea if it’s possible to get these out of Unity and into Poser or DAZ, but they’re cute enough to try.
SVs Whimsical Mushrooms, now also for DAZ iRay.
A Moon Modern Bus Stop and bus, in a 60s retro toon style. See also the matching Moon Modern Astrial Glider and Moon Modern Skypads.
All Stars Prospector and All Stars Hunter for CrazyTalk Animator.
Poncho, a toon donkey for Poser and DAZ. Also has an animations pack.
Frogol HD which requires Bullwarg HD for Genesis 8 Male and you’ll probably also want Bullwarg’s Alternate Skins.
Gand for Hiro 3. Brother of Dody for Aiko 3.
A free Basic Pure Shader Pack for Poser. “Color shades are resourced from searches to make sure they were as pure as I could find.” These look like they might be useful for the Poser Comic Book mode. Open Source, so you can tinker and release your own variants.
EasyPose spring and hand for DAZ Studio.
Storybook:
HiveWire Unicorn for the HiveWire Horse.
DForce Moon Harlequin for G8F.
Free EA Balloons for G8F.
Historical:
A photoreal Railway Coaling Stage from DryJack. Also useful for mines, and perhaps for re-fuelling your giant steampunk airship.
Jacobean English Dining Table Set for DAZ Studio.
Architectural Glass Shader Presets for iRay.
Victorian and Edwardian Staffordshire-style tile pattern shaders.
The restored Poserworld store has the Anglo Saxon Warrior for Michael 3 back on sale again, and at a mere $5.
dForce Tundra Wanderer for Genesis 8 Male.
Oktoberfest Waitress for G8F, a Bavarian beer-cellar type outfit.
A free Deutscher Fischkutter (Small German fishing trawler) for Poser. And ze secret spy radio.
First World War listening platform. Because it was kind of useful to know when there was a fleet of Zeppelin airships on the way.
1930s Ford Rat Rod and Buggy for SketchUp.
MS20F Lost City in OBJ by London224.
Animals:
iREAL Animated Flocks of Birds.
Rainbow Trout Fish Model for Poser.
A prehistoric trilobite set for Unity.
Stylised Ice Age Rhinoceros in OBJ. Said to be “game-ready”, but no mention of being rigged. I guess game-makers want to rig their own way.
Gopher hills for Poser, with detailed spoil heaps.
Nature’s Wonders Beekeeping and Nature’s Wonders Bee. Need a place for your beehives? Simply Grass – Grass Plants and Clumps.
Cockatoos of the World and there are also three other packs.
Appaloosa Overlays for the HiveWire Horse and Appaloosa Overlays 2.
Figures:
A free Ball Joint Doll for G8F.
Skydive M4 V4 poses. Not easy to motion-capture!
Free new face shapes for La Femme and L’Homme, the base figures that ship with Poser 11.
Also loads of Chinese wrestling, and yet more pirates, on the DAZ Store.
Scripts:
Toggle Visibility All Lights for Poser. Instantly make any guide-wires for lights invisible in Preview, without actually turning any lights off.
Poser to Clip Studio – the solution. Send a posed clothed figure from Poser to Clip Studio, with no hassle at all.
The free FreeBass MAT Palette. “A tool to catalog / compare up to 36 individual MATs on a single prop”.
Render Doctor for DAZ Studio. Very confusingly explained, but at its core it appears to be for those times when you have a big scene with 50+ cameras set up all over it. Then you want a script to automatically make a render from each camera in turn. Not for animation, and perhaps most useful for comics makers?
Tutorial:
Building Poses To Market, a 30 minute tutorial on making poses that will pass inspection on the stores. For DAZ Studio.
Poses That Stand Out : Posing in DAZ Studio.
HAIR : Community Workshop Tutorial.
Visual Storytelling : Essential Building Blocks.
That’s all my picks for now, more in due course. Possibly at the start of September.