Sea Life! A quick survey of ocean and underwater life and lighting for Poser 9 / Poser Pro 2012 and DAZ Studio 3D users. The DAZ Store’s “Terrors of the Deep: Jellyfish” has some nice jellifish, which seem to render best in Poser… Although note that the starfish and shell and other content is not
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It looks like the DAZ free software offer is stuck in an infinite loop. It’s now been extended to the end of April 2012…
Toon character specialists 3D Universe have a new character out today. The new Toon Rabbit is styled with an “Alice‘s White Rabbit meets steampunk” look and it looks very usable for comics, animation, and more. There are separate Poser and DAZ versions, so make sure you get the right one.
The UK’s 3D World magazine has just posted its review of the Reality 2.0 renderer. Reality is a plug-in to export to the non-biased LuxRender render engine, from DAZ Studio.
So what’s new in the Poser Pro 2012 service release 1 patch? I noted that those who use a specialist 3D Space Mouse now have many elements of added support. There are many fixes for Mac users. Of most import for me, on Windows, is… “Improved refresh performance when switching from render window to preview
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Brand Schultz has a handy new tutorial video for new Poser Pro 2012 users. “How to Change Hair Colour”…
Natural landscapes survey for Poser and DAZ, Part One — terrains and plants: Spring is here, and perhaps you want to have Poser render a beautiful wild garden? But is it possible for Poser to compete with Vue? No, it’s not. Although some content artists have had a jolly good try at providing Poser users
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Sky Captain, the very interesting new vendor of high-quality steampunk models, has a fine new one out today. The Cryo Chamber ($10) is fully posable in Poser…
Newly released for free, Chreech. Chreech was a Sea Devils/Creature from the Black Lagoon -style standalone character that shipped as an official freebie with Poser 8. He’s a standalone character. Now he’s freely available to all on YURDigital… He can accept poses from at least one other similar undersea figure, Denizen.
Great news for those seeking to begrime, dirty-up and age their Poser 9 and Poser Pro 2012 scenes. DraagonStorm has updated his key Poser plugins, to work with the new Python scripting version used in the latest Poser… “The ones that I have upgraded and are available for download [on the DAZ Store] by resetting
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One of my favorite character artists has released a new standalone figure for Poser and DAZ. Nursoda’s Flisch. Nursoda’s website also has a new freebie today, some special shrooms…
Mad Scientist Lab Survey: Part Two. This post looks at the resources available for the classic 1930s-style laboratory itself, for Poser and DAZ users. The Posenstein Gothic Laboratory Equipment was a good fit for the days of Poser 4, but things have moved on a bit and today you may want to re-texture some of
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A new figure by Sixus1 is always welcome. After his recent Golem series, now it seems he’s starting in on LoTR-style trolls for Poser. This one has just arrived at Runtime DNA, complete with advanced shaders for Poser 9 and Poser Pro 2012…
Mad Scientist Lab Survey: Part One. The brain-in-the-jar has been a staple of science fiction since the 1920s and probably earlier. This blog post is a survey of the 3d content assets available in this line for Poser and DAZ and elsewhere. It’s the first of an occasional survey of the contents needed for a
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