Smith Micro have just officially announced Poser Pro 2014, and they’ve even priced and dated it: 21st May 2013! Here are the new features, with my comments on each: * There’s a new Pro-version only “Fitting Room”… “to convert your existing clothing and props to fit any figure”. Useful, although third-party software such as CrossDresser
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An interesting tutorial on paint-ifying a DAZ or Poser CG picture using Photoshop blend-layers and filters, rather than actual digital brush overpainting. He uses the Sketchy Painting and Old Book Illustrator addon filters in the Filter Forge plugin (which, sadly, sells for the crazy price of $149 for even the Basic edition).
A cool new tutorial video from Content Paradise, “Poser — Toon Render: Create Cartoon Style Renders in Poser”… Also a brilliant and more advanced trick for better-looking toon lines…
An interesting new graphics software release. Corel’s features-heavy natural-media software Painter has a new Painter Lite version now available. Price is just $69 (about £47 in the UK). There’s already the Painter Essentials version, but even that was too confusing for some. So Corel has stripped Painter down even more. The Macworld magazine review of
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Here’s my partial step-by-step tutorial for Visual Style Shaders toon shaders pack, sold for DAZ 4 or higher. I ultimately failed to get the effect, but here’s the tutorial anyway, as far as I got in the far-too-convoluted process. Sadly no tutorial of any kind was included in the package by its developer, leading to
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Can you inject dynamism and “life” into a DAZ/Poser character pose, as easily as you can inject a morph? Only if you know the secrets of the pros. Commercial comics artists know more than most about this topic, and American comic-book artist Brian Haberlin (Spawn) has a handy and quality new article on the top
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BishounenTaurus’s long-awaited manga style ‘Visual Style Shaders’ pack has been released on the DAZ Store. They’re a serious attempt to have DAZ Studio emulate… “that airbrushed anime look [...] the soft style commonly seen in Japanese Visual Novel games” It’ll be interesting to see a set of real-world-use renders made with these, in combination with
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NyaNyan’s new “Mirei Anime and Toon Style Shader” for DAZ Studio 4 (not Poser) is now available on the DAZ Store, at $17.47… “Mirei is a anime toon style shader for DAZ Studio 4. You can use this for making anime manga style illustration.” It looks promising… …but I think I’ll be waiting on the
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You may have wondered if there’s a formula for varnishing and overpainting a paper print of a digital artwork. This is done with transparent paint, in order to make the print appear to the untrained eye as if it’s a painting. If done with skill, this potentially makes the work more saleable via small galleries,
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