Tonight, I’ve been trying to export scenes from DAZ|Studio and see how well they render. I bunged a Genesis figure with some morphs and a nice texture into a scene, and exported as both Collada (.dae) and Wavefront Obkect (.obj) formats. First off, here’s the original DAZ|Studio 4.5 Pro render, uberenvironment, 4 lights. Now here’s…
Tag: Poser Pro 2012
A Poser User’s Perspective on Daz|Studio
Daz|Studio Week 1 Review Since I’ve failed miserably to get the DSON importer working for Poser, and if I want any hope of being able to use the latest Genesis figures from DAZ, then I think I’m going to have to bite the bullet and figure out how to get better renders in Daz|Studio. So I’ve…
Conan Obsession…?
After a period of self-imposed austerity measures, I finally got hold of this awesome ‘Altas‘ morph and texture pack from Renderosity. I’ve been duly making Conans with it ever since. This one was rendered in Poser Pro 2012. Growing up, I loved Robert E Howard’s tales of Conan, the quintessential barbarian hero, and I read…
Unexpected Benevolence
Well, after I gave Daz’s Victoria3 a bit of a whirl after a long absence the other night, it seemed only fair to brush the dust off Michael3 and breathe some life back into him too. I’ve used the EZ Skin script on one of the MOTY textures, and also experimented with my own 3-point…
Poser Lights 2: HDR Lighting
Here’s my latest collection of tips, this time on HDR lighting in Poser. Topics covered: Adding HDR Lights Tweaking HDR Lights Adjusting brightness on HDR Lights
Poser Lighting Part 1
Here’s a lighting tutorial for Poser using just a single spotlight. Topics Covered: Creating a Spotlight Adding Soft shadows Attenuation Volumetric Lights and Fog
Dynamic Cloth in Poser
Here’s a quick-start guide for setting up dynamic cloth in Poser. It covers clothifying objects, and how to drape them over other objects.
Detailed Skin for Poser
Here’s a quick tutorial giving some ideas on adding detail to dull skin textures in Poser. It covers adding bump and specularity, and using HDR lighting to improve your renders.
Interview with 3D Art Direct
I did an interview with 3D Art Direct this month: How to create digital character art with impact. The Podcast is available here.
EZ Skin
I got this free Poser script yesterday, called EZSkin and I absolutely love it! Both the images below use the gorgeous Nosfearatu texture from RDNA. Both were rendered with the same HDRI light and a single specular light. Displacement is turned on in both cases. The original render isn’t bad, but on running the EZ Skin script for the…
3D Fantasy Art 