Adventures in 3D

Want to do the kind of art you see on this blog? You can! The first of a series of PDF tutorials is available now: starting from scratch ... assuming no knowledge ... the artist introduces you to the fantastic world of 3D art. In this tutorial you'll learn all the solid foundation skills you need to make real sense of DAZ Studio 3. Let Jade take you by the hand for a stroll through the world of image creation, from the ground up!

Like to know more? Scroll down to the BOTTOM of this page for details and screen captures!

Download size: 8MB (sorry, guys: the tutorial revolves around images, there's no way to compress it). File format: old fashioned PDF.

Project One: $5

Download -- print out if you want to. You'll be astonished at what we can cover in this beginning tutorial ... and watch out for Project Two!

IMPORTANT!! This tutorial refers to DAZ Studio 3 specifically ... and as you probably know, or are about to find out, the company behind the program has recently issued Studio 4 ... with an interface that is so completely different, looking at these tutorials won't help you learn Studio 4! I've been wondering whether I should delete this guidebook, but I've decided to leave it "up" for a couple of reasons...

Maybe you downloaded Studio 3 a long time ago, and are coming back to it. Maybe you have it on one of the hundreds of CDRs that have been given away with ImagineFX magazine across the years. You could have a copy of the installer from two years ago, and only just be looking at the program right now ... in which case, these tutorials will definitely help.

Alas, I won't be going ahead with the planned series of guidebooks, because version 3 has been relegated to obsolescence, and (!) I really, seriously dislike Studio 4. I dislike it so much, I'm still running on Studio 3, and have already made the switch to Poser Pro. At the time of this writing (February 2012) I can tell you, it's going to take quite some time for me to get the hang of Poser, so I'll be working in DAZ Studio 3 for some time to come. But sorry, I won't be able to help you with Studio 4 toots, because I downloaded the trial version, took one look, shuddered, uninstalled it, and bought Poser instead!

If this guide is useful to you ... great. Enjoy. If you would like to get Studio 3 and revel in 3D art without going through the mayhem of Studio 4 -- all you have to do is get on eBay.com and buy a copy of a back issue of ImagineFX magazine -- just make sure it has the CDR attached. The serial; number is given in a text file right there on the disk. Each issue of the magazine had both DAZ 3 and GIMP included on the CR-Rom stuck inside the back cover, so there's gajillions of copies of the Studio 3 installer out there, and though the DAZ company has successfully erased version 3 from the www (meaning, you can't find a download anywhere, no matter how deep you dig in Google), they can't erase the physical copies on these disks ... so Studio 3 will be around for a long, long, long time to come! Trust me: it's simple, clean, crisp, intuitive, and it worked.

Adventures in DAZ Studio 3 ...Project One! (Be aware that this guide book refers to Studio 3, NOT Studio 4!!)

Download the PDF -- print out if you want to. You'll be astonished at what we can cover in this beginning tutorial ... and watch out for Project Two!

In this first tutorial, let me show you a world of new skills:

Navigate the interface

Open and Save files

Load a model (Michael 4)

Load an accessory (the hairdo)

Pose the model several ways

Fine-tune model pose/expression

Change perspective, angle and zoom

Set numerous point lights

Finely adjust the lights

Clone point lights

Set the render size in dimensions and resolution

Spot render on the fly

Recolor, crop and resize a background image

Set the background image in place

Render the final image

That's a great suite of skills! In the next project, we’ll be looking at more of everything: more props, more lights, more poses, real backgrounds. We’ll put a costume on Michael 4; we’ll add a high-resolution skin map, and we’ll look at how to make him “anatomically correct.”

Download size: 8MB (sorry: the tutorial revolves around images, there's no way to compress this).

Just $5!

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