{"id":4762,"date":"2015-09-03T15:39:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T15:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=4762"},"modified":"2015-09-03T15:39:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T15:39:05","slug":"daz-and-poser-summer-content-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2015\/09\/03\/daz-and-poser-summer-content-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"DAZ and Poser: summer content survey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gosh, is it September already? Time for another monthly survey of the most interesting scenes and props for Poser and DAZ Studio. <\/p>\n

Are you back from your summer holidays? Then slip on the ol’ fuzzy slippers and relax with the Cosy Kitsch Living Room Props<\/a> for the new A Cozy Kitsch Living Room<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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Want to quickly fake some summer holiday photos, showing yourself in amazing locations? You might need some new exotic Poser\/DAZ settings, then. Aurelio’s new Venice<\/a> for instance, puts you in a gondola on the lagoon at Venice…<\/p>\n

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His Venice might be used with a hazy background made with 1971s’s new Coastal Pier set<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Or how about a trip to Chinatown? Only this<\/em> is Stonemason’s fantastic new Chinatown<\/a>, done in the same high-rise style as his classic early sci-fi cityscapes. <\/p>\n

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A depth-fogging tool is going to be a ‘must’ for this sort of big scene. A new one for Daz Studio 4 + iRay + a powerful PC is AtmoCam for Iray<\/a>. Likely to be a whole lot quicker, provided you have and know Adobe Photoshop, is making multiple pass renders with Light Dome PRO<\/a> (Dreamlight’s successor to the very useful old Mood Master II) and then compositing them together using the Screen blend mode in Photoshop.<\/p>\n

Need to give Chinatown some aerial anti-gravity powered traffic, like in Blade Runner<\/em>? The AntFarm has a fine new Floating Junk<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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If you have a graphics card that lets you use DAZ Studio’s iRay rendering with any kind of speed, and you want to get a Blade Runner<\/em> style ‘rain look’ on your Chinatown scene, then Dreamlight has some new DAZ Studio iRay Rain Look Tutorials<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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Ground level in Chinatown? 1971s’s new Old town houses kit<\/a> might serve for that…<\/p>\n

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Or what about Coflek-Gnorg’s new Cyberpunk Corner<\/a> for a Chinatown ground level scene? Coflek-Gnorg also has Street Shops<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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What about taking your characters underneath the new Chinatown? The new Subway Train<\/a> is a subway train\/carriage that looks like a useful stock prop for your runtime, highly detailed on the exterior and interior. See also the new Ruined Subway Tunnel<\/a> scene.<\/p>\n

Need a new character to roam Chinatown? I love JerryJang’s new CosHero for M4<\/a> suit, it looks like something out a 1980s Bilal comic in Heavy Metal<\/em>. It’s a touch expensive at present, but even so I suspect we’ll see more than a few texture-set add-ons for this one…<\/p>\n

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And your hero’s cypherpunk underworld contact in Chinatown? Sixus1’s new Outlanders Stalker<\/a> might work…<\/p>\n

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Stonemason’s new interior nicely blends together sci-fi and nature, in NWX Section 18<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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Some of the exotic plants from Dinoraul, such as his Pandanus tree<\/a> might look interesting in the NWX Section 18 terrarium…<\/p>\n

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3DA Stella<\/a> and eDarlyn for Victoria 4.2<\/a> also both look like they might be at home in Stonemason’s new NWX Section 18 scene…<\/p>\n

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Could NWX Section 18 be a room inside the Deep Core Explorer<\/a>, a new deep-sea drilling\/mining rig?<\/p>\n

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Need futuristic submersibles floating around your Deep Core Explorer? The new MMRship<\/a> looks like it would work in a sub-sea situation…<\/p>\n

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Vue users also have a new realistic two-person submersible<\/a> this month…<\/p>\n

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Anyone doing fan art or comics for The Witcher<\/em> is going to feel right at home in the AJ Northern Citadel<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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Also rather Witcher<\/em>-esque is Dante78’s new Medieval Fisherman’s Hut<\/a>, with his usual fine levels of detail…<\/p>\n

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Decorative Easel Set<\/a> is currently free at DAZ…<\/p>\n

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The Easel Set could be useful for showing your characters making a painting from the deck of the new Summer Tree House Deluxe<\/a>, which has a modern design that looks like it’ll suit adult characters more than a small brood of DAZ\/Poser kids.<\/p>\n

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Also very pastoral is the new Portals – The Shire<\/a>. This makes the fine (though rather gothic) 3 Gate Pass<\/a> scene into a lush portal suitable for the furry feet of hobbit folk.<\/p>\n

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Not much steampunk\/dieselpunk, this month. But Rosemill Astrometry<\/a> has some nice instruments that would suit any era between about 1750 and 1900.<\/p>\n

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Oskarsson’s new Diesel Punk Clothes for Genesis 3 Females<\/a> is unusual, and nicely designed. A sort of hybrid between 1930s ‘jolly hockey sticks’ girls and 1940s air cadets.<\/p>\n

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If you have Second World War \/ World War II uniforms in your runtime, then Predatron’s detailed new miniature set Beach Barricade<\/a> may well interest…<\/p>\n

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New semi-toon standalone characters are always welcome, and this month we get several of them. NeftOoN Gal<\/a> comes complete with hair and clothes. Possibly not new? Possibly just a new bundle of character + extras? Anyway, she also has a Neftoon Pal<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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I’m thinking that the above two characters might be especially useful for a comic book artist making a domestic gag-strip, and looking to over-paint and\/or toon their renders in Photoshop?<\/p>\n

Packy<\/a> the Toon Elephant is another toon standalone, for Poser 9+ only…<\/p>\n

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Another fine character from the same maker is Tiny<\/a>, a sort of aquatic ‘fire newt’ , for Poser 10+ only…<\/p>\n

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Finally, available now is iClone 6 PRO + 3DXchange Bundle + DAZ Genesis (1 & 2 only) import<\/a>, currently at a 40% discount. iClone is the mature and speedy real-time animation tool, with some excellent model and character conversion tools. Those looking to make 5-minute YouTube-size 640px animations will probably find that iClone is a better option for making animations than DAZ or Poser.<\/p>\n

That’s it, more next month!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gosh, is it September already? Time for another monthly survey of the most interesting scenes and props for Poser and DAZ Studio. Are you back from your summer holidays? Then slip on the ol’ fuzzy slippers and relax with the Cosy Kitsch Living Room Props for the new A Cozy Kitsch Living Room… Want to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,3,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daz-studio","category-freebies","category-poser","category-vue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=4762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}