Vladimir Chopine (GeekAtPlay) has a new free 25-minute video tutorial, on using Poser with Vue and Photoshop/Filterforge to create a painterly final picture…
Category Archives: Tutorials
New Poser tutorial videos for figure-creation
Darkseal has just launched an interesting-looking new multi-hour/6Gb set of video tutorials, “Poser Figure Creation with Darkseal”…
“In this series of videos we will take an in depth look at what it takes to create a figure for Poser.”
Here’s the preview video…
Getting started with Puppeteering in DAZ Studio – video
BryTy3D has a nice new 16-minute video tutorial, on how to get started with Puppeteering in DAZ Studio…
Skip to 1:10, if you already know where to find the Puppeteering interface element.
3d Art Direct
A new issue of 3D Art Direct magazine, the free magazine with a focus on 3D sci-fi art made with hobbyist software…
Desperately in need of a better typeface, but otherwise a very good magazine.
Brian Haberlin: creating dynamic poses, and over-painting 3D
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Can you inject dynamism and “life” into a DAZ Studio or Poser character pose, as easily as you can inject a morph? Only if you know the secrets of the pros. Commercial comics artists know more than most about this topic, and American comic-book artist Brian Haberlin (Spawn) has a handy and quality new article on the top 10 ways to bring your 3D character art to life.
Brian also has a cool long article on overpainting 3D renders for comics, using Painter… which comes from the book Secrets of Corel Painter Experts: Tips, Techniques, and Insights for Users of All Abilities
How to port iClone animations to characters in DAZ Studio
Two new video tutorials on taking iClone character animations and applying them to a character in DAZ Studio, using 3DXchange 5’s Pro Pipeline version…
Updated the ‘Poser 9 / 2012 : the missing training DVD’ page – new videos
I’ve updated this blog’s page for Poser 9 / 2012 : the missing training DVD. Four new videos have been added. Three new ones are in a new sub-section called “Poser lighting basics”. The other is this more advanced tutorial, on “How to animate two figures, interacting”…
Animating cloth in DAZ Studio
A new video tutorial showing how to animate cloth in DAZ Studio 4 , with the free script animMorph. You also need the plugin Animate 2, if you want to combine the cloth animation with the character animation…
Three new official Poser 9 / 2012 video tutorials for beginners
Links to three new official Poser / Poser Pro 2014 introductory tutorial videos, added today to this blog’s video tutorials page…
Poser Lighting 101. Learn the basics of this all-important skill for successful Poser use.
Poser’s Pose and Editing Tools 101. This shows you the basics of posing a character.
Poser Cameras 101. This introduces you to using and controlling cameras in your 3D Poser scene.
Second edition of the official DAZ Studio guide book, published
Just published, Les Pardew’s new book for DAZ Studio 4 users, Figures, Characters, and Avatars, Second Edition. This is an update of his earlier book for DAZ, and this new edition of the official guide weighs in at 221 pages. The title shows up on Amazon USA as Figures, Characters and Avatars: The Official Guide to Using DAZ Studio to Create Beautiful Art
Here’s the book’s cover and the table-of-contents for the new edition… click on the table-of-contents to see the full-size version…
New Blender-to-DAZ scene export plugin, free
Do you have a scene made with the free Blender, that you want to render complete in DAZ Studio? Silvio has written a new Blender plugin that claims to do that…
“I have written a plugin for Blender 2.6.2 bridge, to DAZ Studio 3.1 or up. It exports the 3D geometry to DAZ Studio, via [Blender’s] Collada export, and it exacts camera animation positions, rotation, dolly, zoom, DOF…”
Probably not textures, though, if it’s a Cycles scene. I know from experience that nothing on earth will export one of those with textures.
Here’s his detailed 24-minute video tutorial…
New set of DAZ-to-Blender scripts
McjTeleblender is a…
“new kit of scripts designed to quickly export DAZ Studio scenes, even animations, and render them in Blender using Blender’s GPU-accelerated ray-trace renderer named Cycles.”
It’s early days, and the scripts are still being patched. But it all appears to work and offers yet another (and free!) option for high-end raytracing from DAZ Studio scenes.
DAZ to Blender – new pipeline tutorial
Send your DAZ Studio characters to Hell Blender, with a brand new tutorial and pipeline overview researched and written by Jon Hallier. The Blender guys are of course working on the free Make Human software, which is current stuck at alpha 0.6. But until Make Human becomes usable, Exporting DAZ Studio 4 figures to Blender might come in handy.
DAZ to Unity – detailed technical overview
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DigiTech has posted a lengthy new whitepaper/tutorial on pipelining customised character assets for the popular free Unity game engine, based on DAZ Studio exports…
“This tutorial presents an asset pipeline, and design and code analysis information, to support the character customization workshop project download [available] for Unity game engine. […] The character customization workshop provides a foundation for a startup individual or small team of developers to begin introducing character management to their games.”
How to paint hair in Photoshop – free 35 min video tutorial
Hair taking too long to render? Damage Inc. has just posted a new free 35 minute video tutorial on how to add hair to your DAZ Studio or Poser render, by painting it in with Adobe Photoshop…