I see fiddly and over-complicated Clip Studio EX has gone to version 3.x. And that Clip Studio 3.1.x can now import .BVH motion files, and apply them to its primitive dummy 3D figures. And it has added “support for [import of] 3D models with shape keys”.
Also, Dark Mode is now the default UI setting.
Poser real-time render to Img2Img AI, with a very simple prompt. Just a super-quick demo I made to show someone the absolute basic possibility in terms of quick transformation. Without even getting into ControlNets.
Yes, there’s an icky thumb-shadow in Poser, which has carried over to the AI. I didn’t notice that until it was too late.
New for Poser and DAZ, July 2024. A month’s survey of what’s new in Poser and DAZ Studio, and in interesting AI tools. Not so much, as here I’m picking from just short of a month of items.
Science-fiction:
Steampunk:
Photo Props: Storage Collection
Zeppelin Hangar for Poser, with M4 poses. And a free set of HM Airship R34 Colors for the L-1 Zeppelin.
Luxury Casino Hall for DAZ.
Halloween:
People and clothes:
Donnie 9, a President Trump-alike for DAZ. And a Presidential Bundle.
M3D Reginald HD and Hair for Genesis 9. A semi-toon grandpa character.
Free, Indiana Jones 2.0 for M3 LowRes.
Free, Car Poses for LaFemme 2.
Free, More Crumpled Clothes Props for Poser.
Jepe’s dForce Omni Body Hair Sets For Genesis 8 Males. Hairy chaps, though I imagine your render times will also be rather hairy?
Animals:
Songbird ReMix: Prairie-chicken.
Art Squirrel’s new SketchFab animals, a dolphin and whale. Static OBJ sculpts, but you might give them a basic rig if you have the skills.
Animations and Still Poses for the DAZ House Cat. And a video trailer.
Best Cat Poses n Props for DAZ House Cat.
Seascapes and landscapes:
MS24 Shamrock III & Drydock for Vue, by London224. In 3D, “the big graceful J Boats of the early turn of the century America’s Cup races”. Useful for marine art, by the look of it.
A free Garden Gnome/ Lawn Ornament.
A free Shrub Alphabet.
Historical:
A free Lost Ark set for DAZ, from the Indiana Jones original movies, but suitable for any archeological dig scene. See also the new Ancient Labyrinth – Huge Environment for DAZ Studio.
Wood Chip Carving Set. Possibly useful for making a training booklet.
Soviet Architecture including iconography. Only linked here so I can comment on it, since it looks a bit low-effort. Would Nazi Architecture and symbols be allowed on the DAZ Store? Why does the just-as-evil communism get a ‘free pass’ in such things?
Vintage Industrial, Domestic and Commercial Weighing Scales and weights.
Scripts, software and special shaders:
HDRI Control for Poser 13+. And a Demonstration Video on YouTube.
Poser 11 compound node for creating random colour tiles. Think ‘swimming pools’ and tiled floors. There’s a thread about this at the HiveWire 3D Community.
A free G3/G8/G9 Pose Converter Plugin for DAZ Studio 4.2x as a .DLL file.
A basic Face Control for Genesis 9 as an animator’s face-plate.
MD List of Products Used… “The script can track the products used in the scene based on the nodes, the materials, the geometry, and the modifiers used with more than 95% success”.
Archiving Your DeviantArt Favourites to locally saved pages. The workflow and the free tool you need to do it in an automated way.
Tutorials:
Using Bone Minion for Horse and Rider Poses.
The Ultimate Guide to Building Low Poly Figure Scenes with many characters.
How to create a wet material effect in Poser.
AI:
A video on Mastering the new ControlNet ‘Scribble’ for SDXL, in the free InvokeAI. And combining it with a depth-render from a basic 3D sculpt.
The “I battled through 20,000 anime girls… so you don’t have to” AI list for artists directory has updated. Links to free models, LORAs and more, all for SD 1.5 and 2.1 768 users making imaginative works in a western art style.
That’s it. More in September.
