Hi! This is a blog about creatively using and testing popular 3D tools such as Poser and DAZ Studio. The blog is mostly intended as for regular news about these and other popular 3D graphics and animation software packages…<\/p>\n
* DAZ Studio (both the old 3.1.2.24 Advanced and the newer DAZ Studio 4.x).<\/p>\n
* Poser, mostly Poser Pro 11 rather than 12.<\/p>\n
I also regularly survey…<\/p>\n
* the best of the affordable royalty-free content made for DAZ and Poser, and to a lesser extent for Vue.<\/p>\n
* developments in 3D for comics production.<\/p>\n
I also occasionally cover…<\/p>\n
* 3D artists, digital comics makers, animators, and innovative content-creators.<\/p>\n
You may also find occasional coverage of…<\/p>\n
* wider artistic and industry developments in animation and 2D\/3D and graphics in general, especially if relevant to NPR\/toon rendering.<\/p>\n
* the other production tools needed for making digital comics and graphic novels.<\/p>\n
There are some Amazon and Renderosity links on this blog, from which I may earn a tiny bit of affiliate earnings.<\/em><\/p>\n My software progress:<\/p>\n I’ve been using Poser since the early days of Poser 3.0. Some years back I started using DAZ Studio 3 far more, in combination with the real-time iClone. With the release of Poser Pro 2012, I became more of a Poser fan than before. Although I still mainly tended to use the free DAZ Studio 4.7 and iClone. <\/p>\n I went off iClone when they did away with the familiar old interface, and yet without a powerful graphics-card I struggled with DAZ Studio’s new and sluggish iRay rendering. Which meant I was ready for the new vastly improved Poser 11. I did an in-depth review of Poser 11 and quickly became a big fan of Poser again. I soon had a more powerful PC to run it, and a full copy of Vue to connect it to. I also especially liked Poser 11’s unique new real-time Comic Book Preview mode, and could see how this could connect in interesting ways with the Sketch Designer.<\/p>\n By late 2017 I was also increasingly liking the new DAZ Studio 4.10 for casual work, because its iRay rendering had finally<\/em> become usable for me — thanks to the wonderful new Scene Optimizer plug-in. It still wasn’t ideal, especially re: lack of good lighting controls in DAZ, but it was fast enough to use.<\/p>\n By late 2018 I was intensively experimenting with Poser 11 for comics production, documenting and niggling down into the work-flows in terms of… i) how to automate the process as much as possible, and ii) how to arrive at convincing ‘artistic 2D from 3D’ comics and sketch looks. Looks that would not cause snorts of derisive laughter among regular graphic-novel readers or buyers of children’s picture-books. I’ve so far had good success with that, and have arrived at about six different styles that I think would pass the ‘sniff test’ among comics buyers and even storybook editors. I’m now slowly finding time to work on refining and automating these as much as possible, and am also developing a set of speedy Sketch Designer presets. <\/p>\n In 2019 I got a multi-core workstation, albeit one a decade old, which runs Poser and Vue much faster. It can even do real-time iRay in DAZ Studio, on relatively simple scenes. I also began to take an interest in making Python scripts, as a way of reliably automating some of the production processes in Poser. I can’t and never will write Python from scratch but, as with Javascript, I can now hack and splice and tweak it — until it does what I want it to.<\/p>\n In 2020 I picked up Clip Studio and MotionArtist very cheap, for possible future comics use, but neither proved very satisfactory. I also got Cartoon Animator 3 Pipeline on a nice $70 deal, which I already knew from previous versions. I moved over from the lumbering old Photoshop CS6 to the nippy $65 Photoline for 98% of everyday graphics editing, with AlphaPlugins Launchbox (runs old 32-bit plugins) and Paint.NET (to run G’MIC and a nice Liquify) providing extra round-trip plugin support to Photoline.<\/p>\n At spring 2021 I have yet to get Poser 12 and am more and more liking DAZ Studio as its iRay speed develops. But sadly DAZ is not really suitable for real-time renders of stylises comics art. For 2D painting I would currently recommend Paint Tool SAI or Realistic Paint Studio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hi! This is a blog about creatively using and testing popular 3D tools such as Poser and DAZ Studio. The blog is mostly intended as for regular news about these and other popular 3D graphics and animation software packages… * DAZ Studio (both the old 3.1.2.24 Advanced and the newer DAZ Studio 4.x). * Poser, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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