Without Good Textures, no Mercy! Deco Lobby (image courtesy of DAZ) http://www.daz3d.com/deco-lobby Textures? For more than a year now, there been a huge change in the way we design things for 3D… In the past, things were simple. When you wanted to do a texture for your character or your prop, you only had to […]
We are only Human All day long fighting to get the right idea, trying, learning, failing…doing it again and again… This is common to many of us! Yesterday, I had a look at the DAZ website and stared at a familiar character I had always found fascinating. Without looking at the vendor’s name, I recognized […]
Does Gamma and Saturation Influence your Mood? To be perfectly honest, I’m no doctor…. I just love to play with all DAZ options….and Iray has a lot of settings….. Giving the right mood to an image is always a challenge. Even if you get the right set of lights, you want to achieve something special […]
3D Street Art Magic in Dubai Just last month the streets of Dubai came to life at the annual Dubai Canvas Festival which was created and is now managed by Dubai Media office and #BrandDubai. This year the festival once again, drew the inventor of 3D Street Art himself, Kurt Wenner. The festival featured 60 […]
https://www.mixamo.com/workflows/photoshop-3d From a post on the Gamasutra website (the Art and Business of Making Games), I learned that we can now “Import 3D animated characters into Photoshop CC”. Source image: http://gamasutra.com/ This service is provided in collaboration with the animation company Mixamo. Source image: https://www.mixamo.com/ The Mixamo website explains that: “With Mixamo, Photoshop CC 2014 […]
Free 3D Models: As written on one of the Dreamlight 3D webpages, Creativity does not fit in a box. At times we need a little help in the way of some free 3d models, to get the creative juices flowing. Maybe all we need is a new background to spark a new story line to […]
Source image: https://www.lightwave3d.com/news/article/under-the-sea/?utm_source=october_newsletter_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter ‘Under the sea’ is a virtual tour created for Scottish Natural Heritage by film and video company Bruizer Films, based in Suffolk, United Kingdom. The underwater scene was created using LightWave and Sculptris. From the Lightwave website, “This underwater scene is so realistic; it’s hard to believe it is actually CG”. And […]
www.fastcompany.com Chris Gayomali on FastCompany writes about the use of Oculus Rift in journalism, where the Des Moins Register, Iowa, USA, is using virtual reality and the Oculus Rift to reach out to its readers in a five-part interactive story ‘Harvest of Change’. Gayomall writes, “When you put on the Rift, you are beamed into […]
www.my3d.co.uk This time I thought we’d take a look at the Daz3D products for animating your CG characters. AniMate As the name suggests AniMate is geared to helping you create movement for your Daz3D characters. You can also choose from many blocked animation options that will make the task of moving your characters around a […]
Abstract Photoshop Actions Here is a selection of renders and photoshop actions that you can use to add that something extra to your renders. We’ve got something from these naturally inspired foliage renders to explosives and watercolor effects. Remember to check that what you are wanting to download is compatible with your computer and the […]
