Once again here’s my regular page of picks for the Poser and DAZ Studio software, as released more or less in November 2025. I also add in a small survey of other useful software and tutorials etc.
Science fiction:
1971’s Diesel Disc, now for DAZ Studio.
The ships probably deploy Military Heavy Mechs.
Want to escape from the mechs? Don the Gravity Boots for G8. I assume they do anti-gravity, as well as clamping you to a metal spaceship.
Gothic and horror:
1971’s Futuristic Temple for DAZ and Poser.
And behind the door? Possibly the Theta Black alien display cases.
The Curator of this alien museum? Perhaps the new AB Master of Horror for Genesis 9. Hmmm, now there’s a familiar face. Which could no doubt be tweaked into even more of a resemblance to the master, especially by adding suitable new hair and a 1920s suit. Neither of which yet exists for G9 specifically, I find.
Fantasy:
Hogwarts style FG Magic Classroom. I forget the movies, so I’m not sure how close to fan-art this is. But maybe not for commercial use?
Dragon Wings and Tail for Genesis 9. Plus an impressive Dragonscale LIE Textures Add-On.
Toon:
Bernard the Hermit Crab for DAZ, free.
Basted, a toon turkey for Poser.
Free Polly – Morph Preset for Aiko 3.
3D figures, poses, parts and clothes:
Fully opening dForce Classic Umbrella with materials, poses and hand poses.
Free Chorus poses for K4, Christmas carol singing poses for Kids 4.
A free female Santa Costume for G8F.
Landscapes and environments:
Shattered Ground, possibly especially useful for super-heavy superhero landings.
UltraScenery2 – Snake Bridge, a sort of English Midlands canal-bridge with a twist.
Simple Debris mound props in .OBJ and E-on Vue format.
Free, 75 crop circles in .OBJ format.
Giant Kelp for Vue, for your underwater ‘kelp forest’ scenes.
Animals:
Songbird Remix Shorebirds Vol 5 – Storks of the World.
Free Songbird ReMix Bundle of Joy, for storks bringing babies.
Historical:
XI Desert Port, nicely done and could be slightly adapted for Conan by hiding the minarets and adding some fantasy-style clutter.
Free Firefly Mats for Snood Hair, a mediaeval hair style. Also for Poser SuperFly.
A free Early 18th Century English Martial Musket.
A pleasing small Painter’s Workshop for DAZ Studio, for starving artists everywhere.
Want to keep your starving artist warm? Just add the free Ross Stove 01 stove and props.
DryJack’s GWR Saddle Tank Engine, complementing his extensive railway range. His Share CG freebies are in the ShareCG-backup bundle.
Tutorials:
A new 45 minute YouTube tutorial on Understanding Lighting and tips on lighting 3D scenes in Poser.
Scripts and other auto-helpers:
DAZ Studio 4 Scene Tools 4 – Morph Tools.
New software releases:
Poser 14 has been released. Has the latest version of Blender Cycles (aka SuperFly in Poser), and more. The $100 Upgrade for Windows is here. Last I heard it should upgrade from any paid licenced version of Poser, but that may have changed with 14?
* The Poser-friendly E-on Vue, now wholly free, has a further chance to go open-source if enough potential guardians/developers are interested.
* A new Web page for all the free/libre fonts used for David Revoy’s Pepper & Carrot Creative Commons comic-strip and books.
* The desktop edition of ZBrush is finally getting a new User Interface. The notoriously unintuitive UI seems set to gets its makeover early in 2026. The new UI will also be customisable.
* Those with large websites may be interested in LibreCrawl: free open-source desktop SEO crawler. Similar to the go-to Screaming Frog software, it can auto-check for bad or redirected links and output a spreadsheet.
Local generative AI:
All free, as is the way with local AI.
* Stable Audio 2.5 Official Prompt Guide. Most of these will also work for generating audio clips with Stable Audio 1.0, which can run in ComfyUI or there’s a slower Windows standalone on the Internet Archive.
* Flux Fill. Who knew? It seems this Edit model got lost and forgotten about in the tidal wave of new models in the summer/autumn of 2025. An Edit version of Flux dedicated to perfectly erasing (‘infilling’) items in a picture, or expanding (‘outpainting’) the picture by taking into account what’s already there. There’s a Flux Fill Workflow Step-by-Step Guide and note also the GGUF’s at OneReward-GGUF. This offers not only .GGUF files for those with lesser graphic-cards, but at the same time also a slightly later fine-tune by ByteDance Research — which greatly ramped up the model’s abilities to reach the paid-for Flux ‘Pro’ levels! (Update: My tests show it’s not a way to shift eye-gaze direction, and thus reliably get around the “must stare at the camera” problem).
* The new Gausian Video Editor, which looks like the first “local video editor for AI video production”.
* The amazing Z-Image Turbo was released last week, and such is the community enthusiasm that a unified Controlnet and over 300 LoRAs are already available.
That’s for now, more after Christmas.