What I did this evening

[marydell]

1. installed DAZ Studio Advanced version 3.  DAZ Studio is a 3d posing & rendering app, a competitor to Poser, for the hobbiest market, more or less.  The base app is free, with a "tell ware" license, which means you agree to tell two people about it.  This is me, telling you about the app. You can pick it up at www.daz3d.com if you're interested. 

2. Loaded a file, "Ariane 6.pz3" that I'd previously been working on very slooowly in Poser 6

3. Told DS how to find all the associated content files

4. Put cooler hair on the figure in the scene

5. Put a better skin texture on the figure in the scene

6. Added some lights to the scene

7. Test-rendered the scene

I've opened DS about twice, ever.  Tonight is my first time using this version, and I did all of that in about an hour, without having to refer to help text or the product tutorial.  In Poser, which I have been using for 10 years,  I would have spent my entire evening doing that stuff...even with the memory upgrade I put in a couple of weeks ago.  

This is very cool. Images are for a semi-sekrit project, so I can't share them yet, but I now have hopes of them looking the way I imagine them in my head.  YAY.

Comments

[slrose.livejournal.com]

Oooh.

I saw the first draft; I'll really like seeing the final version.

You rock.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[seawasp]

It's only semi-sekrit, though. I'm not making any secret of the overall project. Did I ask you how I should credit you in the trailers and on the website for whatever images you make?

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Since you've talked about it on your blog I figure it's not a problem for me to talk about it some here, but I'm not debuting any images or showing any WIPs. Once things are in the form of finished promo material (trailer and wallpapers) I'll want to signal-boost 'em, of course.

[seawasp]

Can LJ's message thing handle picture attachments? Or do you have an Email addy you want me to send things to?

I can send you the final design images of the Holy Grail, so you can see what Keith Morrison is doing on the hardware side of things.

[seawasp]

Note: Shana is my Loyal Lieutenant, so I show her everything. :) Well, except the top secret doomsday device; she only needs to see that when I show it to her just before the big battle against the heroes.

[slrose.livejournal.com]

Just as long as you keep the wasplets out of it. Otherwise wasplet #2 will dismantle it and improve it. And you don't want him to be working on it when the heroes arrive.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Oh, cool - I'll add her to the permissions for the images folder, if that's ok, so that she can see stuff when I put it up?

[seawasp]

She would love that, I'm sure. :)

[slrose.livejournal.com]

Oooh, yes, definitely!