Category Archives: Freebies

Slightly late this month, my survey of the new August 2017 content produced for Poser and DAZ Studio.

Base figures and content:

The flagship Genesis 8 Male base (G8M) is out, and should be available for download from inside the Library of the latest DAZ Studio version. Key store add-ons are: Genesis 8 Male Body Morphs, Genesis 8 Male Expressions and Head Morphs. Of course, built on top of G8M there’s also the new Michael 8 base and a Michael 8 Pro Bundle.

Also in the ‘must have’ category is DA Rust and Grime Shaders, to easily lay grime and rust over the top of any existing materials.

Also fairly vital — for Look At My Hair users — is the new LAMH 2 Iray Catalyzer. Note that… “All Alessandro_AM’s animal libraries have been updated for iRay/Catalyzer compatability. Make sure to download the free updates!”

Science-fiction:

MDD Nymia for V4.2 for Poser, from quality character-maker Maddelirium.

VYK_Teyla for G8F for DAZ Studio.

Ghost, wireframe, and Cortana for Pauline, a set of free hologram MATs for the flagship female character which ships free with Poser 11.

Single Man Light Aircraft for DAZ Studio, from a new name to me, Sareth. Nice, lots of details and moving parts, quality texture sets. I hope we’ll get more sci-fi from him in future.

Aava: Alien Species for Genesis 3 Female.

Man-Tank by Cybertenko for Poser. Which also integrates with his RetroBot character to create an unusual Tankbot.

Steampunk:

Ragnarok Mask for Genesis 3 and Genesis 8 Female. Poser creatives have had this for many years, but now it comes to DAZ.

Hinky’s Spect-Occulars – Steampunk Eyes for Genesis 8.

Need steampunk or similar tattoos in DAZ Studio? How to Create Outstanding Skin Art Tutorial.

Fantasy:

Orkz: Triceratox for Poser, a sort of cross between a giant pig and an ox. Complete with war-gear.

Hordor HornsHelmet for V4 looks like fun.

A cute-but-robust small shield, though to get it you need the whole Dragon Guard Outfit for Genesis 8 Female.

Lernaean Hydra for DAZ Studio, with poses.

MortemVetus’s Rolf for M4 and Braided Hair for M4, for Poser. This is a Runtime DNA carry-over, now being re-released on Renderosity.

MortemVetus’s Dream Arborum figures. They appear to be static sculpts which were designed to showcase the TerraDome 2 plugin, but apparently they don’t require that. Another Runtime DNA carry-over, but new to me.

Historical:

MS17 Tudor Room for DAZ Studio from London224.

Authentic G3M Minoan era Mycenaeans and Sea-people for DAZ Studio.

The famous Trojan Horse from London224, for DAZ Studio. It’s been available for Poser for a while now, but this version appears to be new for DAZ.

Slavecloth for G3M in DAZ Studio. A free outfit and chain.

Smoking paraphernalia for Poser.

Workbench and Tools.

Storybook:

Inhabited Island by 1971s, for Poser. Vue users may also be interested in this.

Autumn Lamp by 1971s, for Poser. A simple idea, but done well.

Town Crier for Genesis 3 Male for DAZ Studio.

Morphing Wide Brimmed Hat for G3F/G8F and 12 styles and presets. Usefully generic, and especially so for storybook illustration. Doubtless there’ll be a ‘cottage garden and Edwardian styles’ set of morphs and textures soon.

Toon:

Boku No for Poser. Possibly of interest to those using flat lighting + the Comic Book mode in Poser 11, to make comics. Requires Anime Girl Sinon for Poser. She’s a standalone, so you may want check if she can take V4 or similar pose sets before investing.

Animals:

CWRW Orange Tabby for the HiveWire House Cat for Poser and DAZ Studio. In DAZ Studio it works with the free House Cat LAMH plugin preset.

It’s interesting to see that Dinoraul, famed for his high-quality dinosaurs, is now doing OBJ terrain sets fit for giant dinosaurs to roam across.

Deinonychus by AMLM plus an awesome Feathers Extension for Deinonychus.

Crested Porcupine by AM.

iRay Alligator by AM. Not to be let into The Beach House!

Nature scenes:

ShaaraMuse3D’s Olive Grove, a high-quality scene for Poser which may also interest Vue users. 4k textures and subtle/believable tree design. Just add processional figures from classical times, and a dozen goats.

Flink’s Instant Lake for Poser and OBJ. Rather expensive, but I guess you’re also getting a lot of plants and materials in the bundle. Might be re-worked and given a materials makeover to become a shoreline rock-pool?

ShaaraMuse3D’s 3D Scenery: Oceanic Submersion, a big pack of quality Poser assets for shallow waters and rock-pool scenes. Not well served by its main promo picture, but it has hi-res textures and is also likely be of interest to aquatic Vue artists. Note also that “Some of the items also come in a down-scaled, lower resolution mesh (3-4k polys and 1k textures). These can be used to populate the scene with more detail.”

Luigi Marini has a new coral reef for Vue users.

That’s it. More picks next month!

We’re into August now, so it’s time for a selected survey of what was newly released for Poser / DAZ Studio content in July 2017. Here’s what caught my eye…

Science-fiction:

Insectoid for Michael 4 for Poser. Definitely one for a 1950s B-movie scene or re-creating a cheesy 1980s Doctor Who episode. Your Insectoid could possibly be leading an army of the new The Flies.

Futuristic Glass Elevator and Building Kit from first-time content maker Chanteur-de-Vent. A big scene with props, and MATs for both iRay and 3Delight. I hope we’ll see more sci-fi from her.

A Salvador Dali-style Peeled Orange Skin Shader for Genesis 8 Female. I’m guessing you could also give this a hologram look, for a “teleporter” effect, with the help of the new holgram shaders for iRay?

Alien Place for DAZ Studio. Too expensive for impulse sales (if it had been an introductory $7.95 I’d have purchased it immediately), but it’s obviously very carefully done, and if the base can be stripped back then it could also be re-worked as a seaside rock-pool (aka tide-pool).

H&C Raincoat Outfit for Genesis 3 Male might be suitable for a rain-slicked Blade Runner-type scene, or a sort of Matrix-like picture.

Blade Runners for Genesis 3 Female is another clothing set that works for science-fiction.

Fantasy:

Djinn for Genesis 3 Female, for DAZ Studio.

Coflek-Gnorg’s Choker Necklaces: Snakes for V4, for Poser.

A nice chunky slightly-toonish Fairytale portal from 1971s, for Poser.

The portal might work well, fairy-lanterns removed, as a background for Summoner’s God-Thoth from Ancient Egypt, for Poser.

I don’t need yet another dragon slumbering in my runtime, but the new Crystal Dragon’s Crystal Dragon Lair seems a useful base for something more elaborate. Some Wild Arums might make the floor look less barren, if re-coloured in suitable colours to match the crystals. A few luminous mushrooms too.

Storybook:

Lepus M4 V4 K4, for Poser. Plus horns. You can probably find and fit your own M4 eye-patches and side-whiskers, to make piratical / steampunk bunnies.

Wow, Genesis 8 really is flexible! V8F can turn into a Mrs Tiggywinkle style Ms Hedgehog, a cute hedgehog. She also has a car to drive to the shops in.

The Poser Meowl is now also available for Daz Studio.

EQ Bambino for Poser 11 and EQ Dwarf for Poser 11. Both freebies with poses and commercial use, which is very generous of Elleque given that these are store-quality characters. EQ Dwarf is somewhat similar to the original Peter Rabbit, but nowhere near close enough (I’ve looked) to cause copyright problems — so long as you’re not calling your rabbit character “Peter Rabbit”. He toons up very nicely in Poser 11’s comic book mode…

Coflek-Gnorg accidentally inhaled some sparkly pixie-dust and made a herd of Fluffy Unicorns for Poser. He’s fine again now.

Historical:

Cybertenko’s Desert Rats, complete Second World War uniforms and hats for the British Army 7th Armoured Division. And Cybertenko also has a Sten Gun Mk II. The hat would also give you a key part of a Moebius-style ‘Major Grubert’ character.

Minoan Era for Genesis 3 Female and Genesis 8 Female. With an unusual sort-of super-baggy trouser-skirt, that could be re-worked in lustrous fabric for science-fiction scenes.

Lovable Nerds Bundle plus Nerdy Girl Outfit textures.

i13 Warehouse Uniform for Genesis 3 Female.

Raine Bundle, late 1950s Hollie Golightly-style accessories for Genesis 3 Female.

Tongues:

Long Chain Rigging Tutorial. Figure rigging too complex? Start to learn the basics of rigging in DAZ Studio with something easier, such as a whip, tail, tentacle, or even a multi-pronged monster-tongue.

The Easy Tongue for Genesis 8 Female has got it licked!

Animals:

Salmon for Poser, lightweight so you can have lots in your scene, and it comes with seven morphs. I don’t remember seeing salmon for Poser before now.

3D Underwater Fauna: African Cichlids for Poser and DAZ Studio (iRay MATs). Light on system resources, so you can have big schools of them swimming through your scene. Also quite a variety of sub-species in the pack.

Giant Monster Spider HD for DAZ Studio. Peek at your peril!

Scenes:

Stonemason’s The Streets Of Venice and Gondola boat, and The Streets of Morocco. I’ve lost track of what’s in Stonemason’s “Streets of …” series, but I think these are new and not just iRay re-releases?

AJ Forgotten Place for Poser. Really simple, but very nicely proportioned and textured, and it seems like one of those highly adaptable scenes that someone might come back to again and again. Lots of space on the outside too, to show multiple monsters peering in at Halloween and suchlike.

You’ll find a few SketchUp-made 17th century English mansions for free, but not likely one that’s in ruins. Quality content maker London224 fills the gap there, with MS17 Moreton Corbet Ruin. Just surround it with a mob of swivel-eyed rustic fanatics waving pitchforks and burning torches, and add leaping flames. Likely to be of interest to Vue users, too.

Stained Glass iRay Shaders. Useful if you have some 1920s and 30s scenes in your runtime.

i13 Warehouse and Office and matching Poses for Genesis 3.

A sub-tropical Golf Course plus poses, caddy-bags and golf-carts. Also, older, a quality set of Golf Clubs. All for DAZ Studio.

Small Abandoned Church for Vue. In a somewhat Scandinavian style, with a detailed worn/abandoned interior.

Poseable Railway Bundle with 50 rail presets, for Vue.

That’s it, more picks next month!

Slightly late this month, here’s my pick of the new Poser and DAZ content released since 1st June 2017. I’m assuming that everyone knows by now about the release of Genesis 8 Female and Victoria 8 for DAZ Studio.

Science fiction:

Nenana Alien HD for Genesis 8 Female. Fabulous Hollywood-quality from Josh Crockett, who did the excellent Robbus Goblin HD a few months ago.

Revo Hair for V4, and Revo Exposed for added colours and styles. Simple but stylish.

More funky future-fashion with Exoline Boots and Accessories for Genesis 3 Female.

Holographic Interfaces and Holographic Battle Charts for Poser, from Coflek-Gnorg.

Fusion Engine Room. Just add di-lithium crystals.

SpaceTech: Landing Platform for Poser, nicely detailed by 3-d-c.

The AntFarm’s Anti-Gravity Office Space is a standalone, and doesn’t require his previous anti-grav content.

Pin-Up Gynoid Phase8 for G3F.

Pd Poison for Genesis 3 Female offers unusual G3F skins.

Summoner’s Alien-Spore for Poser.

Summoner’s Sun God-Ra for Poser.

Alpha Centaur for Centaur 7 Male, an alien-style centaur. Requires the base Centaur 7 for Genesis 3 Male.

A quality leather X-Fashion Kitty Girl Outfit for Genesis 3 Female.

Steampunk:

In what looks like it might be the first in a series, Sixus1 does steampunk with Aftermath: The Admiral for G3F.

Some Fascinators for Dawn for Poser, including an unusual steampunk-ish hat.

Harmonica Pistol and Old Repeaters from Cybertenko.

Historical:

Tommy Atkins from Cybertenko, a humble British ‘Tommy’ of the Second World War. For M4 in Poser.

Workers cottages of the English rural sort, from DryJack.

Cafe Racer, a vintage motorbike racing helmet for Poser.

Wooden Bleachers in the American style, and matching Crowd Reaction Poses.

Practical Archeology has Raiders of the Lost Ark -style poses, weapons and tools. Could work well the Gold Prospecting Equipment, also new this month, which has boxes of dynamite, shovels and suchlike.

Fantasy:

Fairy Bridge by 1971s.

DA Unicorn for DAZ Horse 2.

PBReal Blood Demon for Genesis 3 Female, which requires the Dark Fantasy Add-Ons for Genesis 3 Female.

Summoner’s Shadow-Pan for Poser.

Book of Souls and Book of Souls Add On for Poser.

Lumen Tenebris candlestick, and Illuminantis Libris candles for Poser.

Draconic Rising for Genesis 3 Female, a dragon-rider outfit with an especially stylish helmet.

A Titan Quest-style The Temple of Anubis, complete with “Attack” pose sliders for the statues.

Fantasy Throne Room for DAZ Studio.

People:

Tatsu for Genesis 3. A distinctive new face and character.

Maria G8F, a highly detailed and characterful new older woman for G8.

Outfit for G3F, a useful simple office suit.

Molly HD for Genesis 3 Female which requires the Growing Up for Genesis 3 morphs.

Nerdy Glasses for Genesis 3 and 8.

Fed up with searching for the eye controls among a zillion other sliders in DAZ Studio? Eye Clock Pose Control for Genesis 3 Male and Female, plus it’s claimed it “will adjust the eyelids automatically to keep the gaze natural looking”.

A Free Belly Button Morphs for Genesis 3, and Belly Button Morphs for Genesis 8 Female.

Also Sign Language Greetings as aniBlocks and Poses for G3F. The same maker has a range of other Sign Language pose packs.

Creatures:

aniBlocks for Millennium Cat and Run AniBlocks for Millennium Horse.

Handmade Old Doghouse, which could also add clutter to an Anglo-Saxon or Celtic settlement in an overhead picture. I guess it could also double as a medieval henhouse.

Toons:

Morpheus for G3M, a stylish movie-quality semi-toon set of guys. Plus a superb Strongman for Morpheus and a Toon Super Guy Suit.

Bori Bori.

The Hungry Plant, which looks a bit basic but it might work well tooned-up in Poser 11’s Comic Book mode.

A set of free Cupcake Expressions for the Cupcake toon cat.

A toon-ish little Seahorse, a stand-alone for DAZ Studio. I’m not sure how dynamic it is, but I seem to remember that they don’t do much more than flutter their fins and curl their tails.

A new dress for Mavka. Apparently it’s been specially commissioned by a Mavka fan. I like the idea of that. Perhaps we need a dedicated Poser/DAZ Kickstarter-style site which would aggregate donations for similar project ideas, to sustain much-loved older figures?

Places:

AJ Floating House for Poser, and also likely to be of interest to Vue users.

Recording Studio and Guitar and Microphone with poses for G8F.

Mediterranean Courtyard and Towers.

The Streets Of The Wild West by Stonemason, with his usual high quality.

Nature:

Flinks Instant Meadow 3. Plus Flinks Instant Meadow 3 – Small Parts and More Small Parts and Flinks Dandelion, for Poser.

TruForms Jungle for Poser. OBJs available “on request”.

Oskarsson’s The Forgotten Park for DAZ Studio.

Vue users have Green Canyon, a classic ‘Lost World’ type of scene. Also a Green Valley hamlet which I guess is sort of a ‘the Green Canyon a million years later’, which suggests some sort of time-travel story that would link the two scenes.

David Brinnen’s Gritstone Hills, new for Bryce 7.

That’s it, more picks next month!

What’s new in the DAZ and Poser content in April 2017? Here’s my personal selection from the month’s new releases.

Sci-fi:

Morphing SciFi Glasses for G3F look like they could made flexible use of across a range of sci-fi and superhero characters, even if everyone is going to say “oh, that X-Men guy!” when they see it.

For something similar but more retro, the Project Zero Goggles for Poser.

Slime Attack for G3F is very unusual, and the slime models would also appear to have possibilities as standalone exports for ‘alien garden’ scenes.

Swamp Mushrooms by 1971s for Poser. Simple, but effective.

AJ Hibernation Hall for Poser.

Liquid Lab for DAZ Studio.

Missing those good ol’ Bryce 3D primitives? DAZ now has a pack of Impossible Objects.

A freebie, an iRay pack of Shimmery Sheer Fabrics suitable for sci-fi.

Aeon Soul’s new Proxy Outfit for Genesis 3 Female is an everyday cyberpunk style. No texture add-on packs yet, but Aeon Soul’s quality sci-fi clothes usually get one or more texture packs fairly swiftly.

Nostalgia:

The free Milkshake Props for DAZ iRay look like they’re worth a shake.

The Realigh Hopper 1970s Chopper bike, plus G3F and G3M preset poses. And if you want a ‘newspaper delivery-girl’-style duffel coat for the rider, there’s one in the new GaoDan Uniforms pack for G3F.

Historical:

Classic James Bond-style 1960s Mountain Cable Car with sliding door.

Coflek-gnorg’s Bunker Hill is a large freebie scene for Poser.

U.S. Musket is a very high quality recreation of a musket. There’s also a new Lee-Brooke Railway Gun from the American Civil War.

Shadow Jester Outfit for Genesis 3 Male looks a bit silly on a standard male, but would fit to a more suitable G3M character.

Tus – Persian Warrior Outfit for Genesis 3 Male is obviously fine workmanship and has a more toned-down texture pack.

There’s a new Ancient Celtic Adrian Hair and Beard for G3 Male.

There’s also a charging herd of male fantasy-historical centaurs on the DAZ Store this month, obviously high quality, but way too many content packs to link.

Steampunk and valvepunk:

New on Content Paradise. Meshbox’s old content can often be rather too low-poly since it was meant for old videogames, but their Steampunk Helicopter certainly looks nice and appears to have detailed engines. Beware that their stuff tended to use a single texture atlas, so swopping out the materials can be impossible.

Small town Newspaper Office of the 1910s-1930s, complete with a news-sheet printing press in the basement and a big bundle of period props.

Creatures:

‘Mr. SongBird Remix’ Ken Gilliland has a new creature, Nature’s Wonders Frogs with two common species created with his usual high quality and realistic approach. Certainly the best Poser frog I’ve yet seen, and I have a few in my runtime. His Renderosity Gallery suggests a “Giant Monkey Frog” morph may be forthcoming in volume 2.

AM has a rodent base and a squirrels morph and LAMH hair preset pack for it plus poses.

BoneZ for the HiveWire Big Cat gives you the base skeleton for things like museum displays, magazine illustration cut-aways, and horror scenes.

Somewhat similar to Sanctum Art’s old Drub figure, Res Mortifera plus Poses and Expressions.

Nature:

Dirty Mudyard is an unusual one, and might perhaps also double as part of a small harbour at low tide. The new Frozen Lake Scenery also looks like it could also help with a kitbash of a low-tide harbour scene. The Dirty Mudyard might also be used for the inside of a recent bomb crater that’s been rained on for a few weeks, and which your Res Mortifera monster (see above) rises up from.

Got ducks and dragonflies? The Harpwood Trail – Mallard Pond.

Stonemason also has a new similar water-side setting at Willow Creek.

Vue users have a base for an ornamental Palace Gardens and topiary. Also a large White Meadow frozen stream-side winter scene which looks superb and is currently a mere $8.

If you fancy something more steamy there’s a new Vue Jungle Scene.

Clearance:

I also see that the DAZ Store currently has a (mostly) sub-$5 clearance sale on many items, as well. Lots of characters mostly, rather than scenes and props, but on a quick skim-through I spotted:

Gothic Muse has an unusual skirt which may interest makers of steampunk scenes, to make background characters more interesting.

Anu-naki, a sci-fi V4 character by TheAntFarm which I wasn’t previously aware of.

AnimeEyes for V4 and Aiko 4 / Hiro 4, possibly useful for making comics with the Poser 11 comic book mode. On the DAZ forums you can also find a freebie set of Genesis presets for fitting the eyes to Genesis 1 in DAZ Studio. (If you need similar for Genesis 2 see DG Toon Style Eyes for Genesis 2 Female).

Swordist for M4, a big collection of sword and hand poses which fit a set of weapons made by Xurge.

Merlin’s Flintlock pistol.

The Moebius-style Space Mother head-dress for V4. This toons up very nicely, in Poser’s Comic Book Mode with flat lighting. Now if only there was a set of texture shaders that made the tooning look like it was drawn by Moebius…

Gear Cybernet for Victoria 4.

Feral is set of quality cat-girl / cosplay poses for V4 and the Poser Furries Melody/Micah characters.

That’s it, more picks next month.