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 […]
Are Eyes Really the Mirror of Our Soul? Ever wonder why your character looks flat and lifeless? You did the work, set your camera, your lights, adjusted the shader and rendered…..yet, the result is just a 3D image… You did your best but yet something is still missing… Your character doesn’t somehow come alive… The Secret…It’s All […]
What 97% Of All DAZ Vendors Do Wrong (And Earn Peanuts) If there is that ONE thing that makes a huge difference; then this is it. Most DAZ vendors approach their venture with a job mentality. They spend a lot of hours on their projects, props, outfits, figures and packs, and then expect to get […]
The Only True Destination Of An Artist Have you ever felt that feeling that something ain’t right in your life? That awkward feeling that the things you do are not “yours”? I recall my first day at school. It was a sunny Autumn morning. Mom took me to this huge building with lots of other […]
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.nerdist.com When I wrote the post about animating with Daz3D, I was also thinking about stop motion linked with commuter generated images or CGI. So I was pleased to find that the film Boxtrolls is all over the news because it links old school stop motion and the latest in computer-generated imagery. Stop motion As […]
3D animation Abiogenesis A spaceship lands on a world and uses its resources to create a profound change. I must admit I have been so used to all the shoot-em-up images and kill them dead with bodies flying through the air games that I was kind of holding my breath for much of the animation. […]
