There’s to be a free Poser 2014 webinar with Steve Cooper, Senior Product Manager at Smith Micro Software. The one-hour live webinar will walk you though the new features in Poser 10 and Poser Pro 2014, on 23rd May 2013.
Free official Poser webinar
Smith Micro is putting on a free online seminar (or ‘webinar’) on 11th April 2013. It’s part two of Steve Cooper’s “Getting Started in 3D with Poser“, and looks at the real basics… * what’s in the included free content and how to find it * how to pose and dress both Miki and Tyler,
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Paint filters for CG
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).
Free Poser-and-comics webinar
Booking now, a new free webinar from Smith Micro, “Using Poser to Create the Ground-Breaking Graphic Novel Anomaly“. With artist Brian Haberlin the creator (with writer Skip Brittenham) of Anomaly. The date is Thursday 28th of February 2013 (11am Pacific Time USA, 7pm UK Time). “Anomaly is one of the most innovative and rousing epic
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MotionArtist for motion comics
I’m always been a fan of comics, and the chance to combine comics with animation seems like a dream come true — to someone who was a kid in an age when the coin-operated photocopier was the best advanced comics-production technology we had access to. So it’s exciting that Smith Micro, of Poser fame, have
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Toon it with Poser 2012
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…
3D Art mag – using Poser 2012 with Vue 11
The latest free 3D Art magazine (#25) has a lead article with Arthur Dorety, on using Poser Pro 2012 and Vue 11.
Free webinar: What’s new in Manga Studio 5?
Digital comics makers who draw or paint over their DAZ/Poser renders for might be interested in a free webinar from Smith Micro on “What’s New in Manga Studio 5?”. Despite its somewhat misleading name, the specialist graphics software Manga Studio 5 is not just for manga artists. It’s just about the best dedicated comic-book production
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Space for monkeys
Nice little tutorial at 3D Universe, on making a basic spacesuit helmet using DAZ 3D Studio, for the new 3DU toon Monkey…
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Tutorial: a DS3 workflow with Light Dome Pro 2 and Mood Master 2
Here’s a quick and easy ten-step workflow tutorial for DAZ Studio 3 users, on how to use a combination of Light Dome Pro 2 and Mood Master 2, to quickly light and then to fog/haze a large-scale outdoors scene. Followed by an easy compositing of the renders in Photoshop, and adding some FX. Here’s the
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CrossDresser 4 test and review
I’ve been having a look at the free CrossDresser software for DAZ 3D Studio and Poser. CrossDresser is a speedy and simple utility which quickly converts DAZ/Poser clothing from one character, to fit and conform to another character. I downloaded CrossDresser and the install went swiftly. It then popped up an updater, and offered to
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DAZ Studio: lipsync for dummies
Wendy Vanity has a new two-part video tutorial on DAZ Studio: lipsync for dummies…
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Carrara video training – 60% off
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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