Hot from the Carrara Cafe! News that DAZ Carrara 8.5 is to be released at the end of summer 2013, with Carrara 9 set to follow perhaps Christmas 2013 or in the first quarter of 2014. Carrara 8.5 will include… – Support for up to Windows 8 and Mac OSX 10.8 – DSON support –
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Entries are open now for the Renderosity Christmas Contest. The 2012 theme is “Magical Holiday”…
Another good deal has cropped up, in the current DAZ sale. A healthy 60% off the cost of video training DVD Learning Carrara 8 (10.5 hours), and also 60% off the more advanced video tutorials set Advanced Carrara Techniques (10 hours). Carrara is of course DAZ Studio’s “big sister”, a pro 3d application that has
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Runtime DNA’s 2012 annual sale of Poser and DAZ content, is on now. I found a good deal of the items in my Wish List heavily reduced.
The new issue of the Poser/DAZ-friendly 3D Art Direct magazine is out now, for free. Great to see that the editors have given the cover typography and layout a more professional look…
Tired of ‘Barbie and Ken hair’ for your characters? Need a ‘bad hair day’? Here’s my survey of some of the wilder and weirder hair types available for Poser and DAZ Studio. I’ve left out the anime-style mega-bunches, the flower-strewn faery braids, and the neon punk-rock mohawks. Spider Hair… April YSH’s Calais Hair and Morphing
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Entries are now invited for 3DTotal magazine’s prestigious and weighty Digital Art Masters book (volume 8). Send in your works via this web page. Accepted works must be available at 300dpi. Deadline: 26th November 2012.
You wait ages for SF ‘space art’ contests, and then three come along at once. The latest is the new digital/3D space art contest Curiosity: the Search for New Worlds Through the Eyes of the Rover… “Show us what your new world would look like, from the perspective of a space rover that just landed
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Here’s my new 3D content survey, for Poser and DAZ. All things “Autumn”, except for Halloween freebies (which I covered in my previous survey). These are all 3D: Autumn/Fall gourds are abundant and nicely textured in Pixelharbor’s Gourds… Harvest fruits… Need a Cornucopia Horn to have all your 3D goodies tumbling out of? Cornucopias for
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The makers of the landscape software Vue have a new 3D Environment Competition 2012. They’re lined up $30,000 in prizes, a waggon-load of 3D VIPs, the CG Society, and 3D World magazine, among others. Competition categories are: * 3D Environment * Character Rendering * Architectural Visualization They say that… “Judging will be based solely on
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Are you a DAZ Carrara user who’s keen to get the new Miki 4 into your runtime? There’s a new plugin from veteran developer Fenric, Poser Weightmap Injector. It shuttles Miki between… “Poser Pro 2012 SR2 and Carrara 8″, and it’s free. It should work on similar official Poser figures, but is… “not guaranteed to
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Tired of all those buff young twinkle-toes and body-builders? Need some mature characters for your runtime and your art? Welcome to my survey of the best of the older and elderly people available for Poser, DAZ, and DAZ Carrara. I’ve deliberately chosen the simpler characters and packs, ones that have don’t have ridiculous levels of
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Added to the sidebar Directory, on this blog: Stock 3D. Stock 3D which sells Poser World models individually, rather than via the $25 “all you can download” membership system that the Poser World website operates. A nice easy way to ‘top up’ with that latest ‘must-have’ model, even if your Poser World membership has expired.
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