A short Infinite Skills video guide/tutorial, on the new Comic Book render options in Poser Pro 2014…
Category Archives: Tutorials
V4/M4 to DAZ Genesis: new video tutorial
This new nine-minute tutorial video might be useful for some. Morgan Schweers shows how to quickly convert Victoria 4-based characters (inc. morphs) to the new DAZ Studio Genesis format…
To work through this new tutorial you will need to have the DAZ Genesis Generation X (aka GenX) plugin installed, plus the V4 and M4 Shapes for Genesis pack.
Learning Poser 10/Poser Pro 2014 – DVD
Newly available from Infinite Skills, their Learning Poser 10/Poser Pro 2014 – Training DVD
Bite the bullet
New free webinar tutorial for users of Poser 2014. This one is on the Bullet Physics in Poser, so will be of interested to animators. Thursday, 27th June 2013 at 11:00AM PDT, for one hour.
“the finer details and settings for creating both Soft Body and Rigid Body Dynamics using Bullet Physics in Poser 10 and Poser Pro 2014.”
Get dressed with Sergio – Poser clothing creation masterclass
New podcast from 3D Art Direct magazine, on how Sergio Martinez from Xurge3D creates custom outfits for Poser. Sergio also has…
“his three part live webinar masterclass on Saturday 8th and 9th June 2013.”
Poser 2014 webinar
There’s to be a free Poser 2014 webinar with Steve Cooper, Senior Product Manager at Smith Micro Software. The one-hour live webinar will walk you though the new features in Poser 10 and Poser Pro 2014, on 23rd May 2013.
Free official Poser webinar
Smith Micro is putting on a free online seminar (or ‘webinar’) on 11th April 2013. It’s part two of Steve Cooper’s “Getting Started in 3D with Poser”, and looks at the real basics…
* what’s in the included free content and how to find it
* how to pose and dress both Miki and Tyler, and customize them
* the basics of rendering, turning your 3D scene into a 2D picture.
You can get a feel for the webinar format by looking at the archived webinars, including part one of “Getting Started in 3D with Poser”.
Paint filters for CG
An interesting tutorial on paint-ifying a DAZ or Poser CG picture using Photoshop blend-layers and filters, rather than actual digital brush overpainting.
He uses the Sketchy Painting and Old Book Illustrator addon filters in the Filter Forge plugin (which, sadly, sells for the crazy price of $149 for even the Basic edition).
Free Poser-and-comics webinar
Booking now, a new free webinar from Smith Micro, “Using Poser to Create the Ground-Breaking Graphic Novel Anomaly“. With artist Brian Haberlin the creator (with writer Skip Brittenham) of Anomaly
“Anomaly is one of the most innovative and rousing epic adventures I’ve seen. This story of a team of explorers marooned on a distant planet marries action and ideas in spectacular fashion, and holds important lessons for our society today.” — Harrison Ford, actor.
“They have uncovered a shrewd world in Anomaly, one where simply fighting for survival is not enough. Loaded with offbeat characters and idiosyncratic socio-structures, Anomaly does a smashing job of bringing us back to the fundamentals of humanity.” — Ridley Scott, movie director.
MotionArtist for motion comics
I’m always been a fan of comics, and the chance to combine comics with animation seems like a dream come true — to someone who was a kid in an age when the coin-operated photocopier was the best advanced comics-production technology we had access to. So it’s exciting that Smith Micro, of Poser fame, have announced that they are to very shortly release MotionArtist, for making interactive digital motion-comics…
“MotionArtist is going to be released very soon with amazing improvements over the public beta version. These span from HTML5 output to animated panels, text and word balloons, 3d Parallax effect, and Anime Studio input. Start counting your pennies and watch for additional news about the official launch coming very soon!”
Reallusion also reportedly have something similar in the works, and it’ll be interesting to see what CrazyTalk Animator 2.0 looks like when it arrives. I’d expect Reallusion may learn a lot from letting MotionArtist launch first.
It’ll also be interesting to see how MotionArtist interfaces with Smith Micro’s comics production software Manga Studio, if at all. It sounds like it might interface more with their animation software Anime Studio and with Poser 2014.
Toon it with Poser 2012
A cool new tutorial video from Content Paradise, “Poser — Toon Render: Create Cartoon Style Renders in Poser”…
Also a brilliant and more advanced trick for better-looking toon lines…
Update: this was a nice hack, but has now been bypassed by the superior Comic Book mode in Poser 11.
3D Art mag – using Poser 2012 with Vue 11
The latest free 3D Art magazine (#25) has a lead article with Arthur Dorety, on using Poser Pro 2014 and Vue 11.
CG Arena
The latest edition of the free (after registration) magazine CG Arena is out now…
Free webinar: What’s new in Manga Studio 5?
Digital comics makers who draw or paint over their DAZ Studio or Poser renders for might be interested in a free webinar from Smith Micro on “What’s New in Manga Studio 5?”. Despite its somewhat misleading name, the specialist graphics software Manga Studio 5 is not just for manga artists. It’s just about the best dedicated comic-book production software available. MS5 also has the industry’s best range of pressure-sensitive digital “black ink” brushes.
The free one hour webinar is on 5th February 2013, at 3pm in the afternoon (US Pacific time). It’ll be presented by Doug Hills, comic book artist and author of the training book Manga Studio For Dummies
“Doug will explore the new, fully-customizable interface and show you how it can help to improve your workflow. He will also review the stunning new coloring and painting tools, demonstrate how it is even easier to import and use 3D character and background images, create word balloons, and much more. We will conclude the hour with a brief Q&A session where you will be able to ask questions and have them answered.”
The pro “Ex” version of Manga Studio is set for a summer 2013 release.
Space for monkeys
Nice little tutorial at 3D Universe, on making a basic spacesuit helmet using DAZ Studio, for the new 3DU toon Monkey…
