10 Reasons You Need a Falloff Shader Plugin for Carrara. Including to do faux glows, which follows from my recent tutorials here on the subject of doing spillover glow in Carrara…
Heavy Metal puts Poser on the cover
This is great to see, and shows the graphics world what DAZ Studio and Poser content can do in the hands of talented artists. The famous comics magazine Heavy Metal has used a Poser render created by Isikol, on the latest issue’s cover no less! #268 is the April 2014 issue.
His foreground character was rendered in Poser. The background is Stonemason’s The Enchanted Forest + Return To The Enchanted Forest + Jungle Ruins, all sent over from Poser to be rendered in Vue. Then the two renders were composited together in Photoshop.
Carrara 8.5 Pro at half-price
DAZ’s Carrara 8.5 Pro is currently nearly half-price on the store…
The Octane renderer for DAZ Carrara is due sometime this Springtime. Back in early February 2014 Octane was announced as “a few weeks” away. Octane is a GPU (graphics card) based renderer, and here’s a Jan 2014 preview. It’s not iClone — in terms of true “what you see is what you get” real-time rendering — but for a viewport updater it’s still pretty impressive, and is apparently even doing automated replacement of the textures with Carrara shaders…
Poser and Daz: new releases round-up
After a break from 3D for a couple of weeks, I’ve been looking through all the new DAZ Studio and Poser content that’s been released recently.
Oskarsson’s Neon character is another movie-quality character, a more organic looking variant of one of his earlier characters…
Stonemason keeps delighting 3D sci-fi artists, and he has a new robot out called Prototype. This character has a nice “Iron Man meets the school science project” feel to it.
The Prototype could look rather good in Dreamlight’s new The Pit sci-fi environment…
This large-scale environment probably works best with Dreamlight’s Light Dome PRO-R lights/render/composite system, so you can get the distance fogging (this requires Photoshop and the ability to use it).
Rather more twee, but also of amazing design quality, is The Unicorn from LittleFox. There are also poses and there’s already a small avalanche of texture addons for this one! Just search RuntimeDNA for “unicorn”.
Also rather unusual is Moscowich’s Shamaness (for Poser) which is a semi-toon standalone character. She might work well with some of Nursoda’s standalone characters.
Let’s not forget steampunk. The Steamway (for Poser) is a nice bit of quality steampunk transportation, with a number of different configurations.
Steam-heads should also take a look at the new Technomancer Mask, for which there’s also a Victoria 4 edition…
On a more mundane level Loft for Lease looks like a very useful multipurpose environment. Suitable for everything from a H.P. Lovecraft “Shadow Over Innsmouth” comic, through to just about any city crime stakeout scene.
Loft for Lease can also be given a makeover to make it into a very nice looking Dance Studio or Gym Hall…
And last, but not least, Millenium Cat aniblocks animations. Go, kittee!
Animations Backgrounds returns
Glad to see that the Animations Backgrounds blog is back in action. Just the backgrounds / backdrops / mattes / backplates, whatever you want to call them. Usually from old animations.
Lots of inspiration here for artfully arranging the backgrounds of your Daz and Poser scenes.
Sixus1’s Void Prime: Dakari
Cool new alien 3d figure for DAZ Studio / Poser, from Sixus1: Void Prime: Dakari.
Octane for DAZ Carrara
DAZ Carrara 8.5 Pro users will shortly get an Octane renderer plugin in “Windows 7 & 8 … 64-bit”. Apparently it’s now only “a few weeks away”.
Scene it all
Renderosity has a big 50% Off architecture and scene sale for Daz and Poser users, 3rd – 9th February 2014.
Above: 1971s, Mechanic House.
Live!: A History of Art for Artists, Animators and Gamers
Free Coursera online course, Live!: A History of Art for Artists, Animators and Gamers. 8 weeks, starts 24th February 2014.
Stonemason abandons us
Two major new sets from the excellent Stonemason, to add to his urban ruins series.
Abandoned City 1 and Abandoned City 2.
A big scene made with these packs might need a lot more young birch trees and ground shrub cover, erupting through the roadways, if there had been abandonment of twenty years or more. The new Nature – Trees Pack 1 may be useful in that regard, as they’re low and medium poly models and look fairly convincing.
“Mirror, mirror, on the walls…”
Unusual 3D scene, a mirror room for Poser, apparently with “working” mirrors.
CrazyTalk Animator 2 freebies
Those interested in 2D animation should go grab my re-release of 500 free props and backgrounds intended for users of the new CrazyTalk Animator 2.
Update: now on Archive.org in perpetuity.
Xereb DR
Now even the Daz/Poser dinosaurs are going “semi-toon”! This cute dino is new from dinosaur expert Dinoraul…
Video: Tour of the Poser Pro 2014 Interface
New Renderosity video tutorial, for Poser Pro beginners, A Tour of the Poser Pro 2014 Interface, and How to Reset It (10 minutes)…
It’s part of a premium series of video tutorials intended to get users started with Poser Pro 2014. These are set to be released soon…
“Beginning in January, we’ll be releasing a new tutorial each month that will build on the knowledge you developed in each of the previous lessons.”
New freebies round-up
So what cool free stuff has been released for DAZ Studio and/or Poser, over the Christmas break?
Simple Wood Sign is a nice example of the species. Could be combined with the werewolf above, maybe pointing the way to granny’s house?
Granny’s Old Sewing Machine, ready to animate. Are you sensing the Little Red Riding Hood theme, yet…? 🙂
Nubian Complex looks impressive and has lots of nice comments, although I haven’t loaded it yet and the maker rather ominously states… “textures do not load appropiately, the textures are located in the texture files.”
Unusual Melted Snowman at Poser Direct, along with other new toons. Including the Tremblin’ Terrors for Halloween which I must have missed back in October/November…
I also seem to have missed Poser Direct’s huge Toon Train set.
