Once again, a page of my personal pick of the recent releases for Poser, DAZ Studio and similar software. As usual, freebies are only listed if commercial use for renders, or are obvious fan-art. Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year!
Science fiction:
Baja Bot, a well designed mono-wheel bot for DAZ. Possibly hangs out at the Old Factory which is also a new release.
The fab robot from the original Robocop movie, Robocop ED-209, for fan-art use only.
Star Trek original series TOS Phaser for DAZ and Poser. For fan-art only.
A free space station for DAZ Bryce and DAZ Carrara.
Need a creepy-crawly alien to invade your space station? Take a look at EArkham’s ZWorld Vile Crawlers I: Grubs.
Gothic and horror:
A free Vampire Hunter for Genesis 9.
Giger Dining Set, for a late supper with the vampires.
Steampunk:
Smoking Pipes. Note also the vampire-friendly skull pipe.
Fantasy:
Stonegorge Mountain Troll for Genesis 9.
Storybook:
A free classic little storybook sloop, Pemaquid Friendship Sloop. Also a sweet little Motor Boat.
Unusual Nutcracker Props with rigged mouths/beards.
A free Xmas Cat Tree.
Toon:
A new toony Venus Flytrap Monster from Darkseal.
A free Chibi 9 for Genesis 9.
Figure clothing and figure animations:
Bootzengluvs 008 MMKB Genesis 9, stylish superhero gloves and boots.
Ecstasy motions for Poser – updated link. Contains 2,600 .BVH motion files, cleaned and tailored for Poser human figures. All free and public-domain.
Landscapes and environments:
A timely and free Snow Truck for Poser. Also a dump truck, for carting away garbage about ‘global boiling’.
Nordic Lumberyard for Poser.
A Fashion Show Photoshoot Studio.
FG Business Office Bundle, possibly useful for those making training videos etc.
A free decorated Christmas Tree for Vue.
Animals:
Nature’s Wonders Salamanders & Newts and Vol. 1 expansion.
Nature’s Wonders Phasmids (‘stick insects’).
A free Rugged Wooden Horse for HiveWire Horse, with rockers.
AniMate Animations 2 for DAZ House Cat.
AniMate Animation for Horse 2 and Horse 3 and for Millennium Horse.
Historical:
EVERYPlant Carboniferous Biome for DAZ, for your prehistoric creatures. I seem to recall this was before the gigantic dinosaurs, but there were lots of other cool creatures such as giant dragonflies and centipides the size of a tiger.
Free Ancient Battle, sets of matched and ensemble poses.
dForce Lowland Pharaoh Outfit for Genesis 9. See also the new AJ Pharaohs Palace On The River and AJ Pharaohs Boat.
Bohemian Highwayman for G8M. Possibly also useful for items of hobbit garb?
Renaissance Helmets for G8M, G8F and G9.
Electric Bucket Bike and Textures Add-On.
A finely-crafted 6 Wheel Milk Wagon for Poser, for British railways.
Free Pour-Over Coffee Makers for Poser.
Fletcher Bridge, a detailed scene for the bridge control room of a U.S. warship.
Scripts and helpers:
Anilip3 Bundle, Anilip being a new lipsync and AI voices bundle for DAZ.
Python script to batch render MP4 video files from a set of saved Poser scene files.
Bone Minion for Millennium Horse Poses in DAZ Studio.
I think raw FilaToon renders looks horrible, but I can see some may just want them for ‘artist reference’ and a manual ‘draw over’ on a new layer in Photoshop. Thus some readers may appreciate the V3D FilaToon Converter, Manager and Tools pack.
Tutorials:
A full Introduction to Footwear Design & Shoe Rigging for DAZ Studio.
Always do this one thing when saving expressions in Poser and DAZ. It’s about the morphs.
For Cartoon Animator, (previously CrazyTalk Animator), Integrating Game-like Character Controls with Cartoon Animator 5.
How to set a default custom zoom level in Photoshop when you open an image. Stop the right-edge of the image being hidden under side-panels.
For InvokeAI, Advanced Techniques for Controlling Color with Generative AI.
How to bulk-extract metadata from a folder of PNG files, on Windows. Useful for archiving all your AI image experiments as a simple searchable .TXT file, with all prompts and metadata needed to later recreate the same image.
New software releases:
Darktable 5.0.x is out, the open-source Adobe Lightroom alternative for batch processing RAW camera images and more.
Invoke AI continues to develop into ‘the Photoshop of AI’ and is now at 5.5.x. The free AI image generation software designed for artists.
The list/directory “I battled through 20,000 anime girls… so you don’t have to” has updated. Tracking the best of the new artistic add-on LORAs for Stable Diffusion 1.5 and 2.1.
And don’t forget you can currently get Poser 12 for £20 in a Humble Bundle. Along with Moho 12.5, which was the last to support Poser import.
That’s it for now. More picks in the new year!