Twisty's Creations
Twisty
Posts: 39
Hello all 
I'm relatively new to Daz at the time of this post, and been absolutely loving the software so far. I've been learning and creating for a little over a month now, I think? I thought it was about time I shared some of my work so far as I find my feet with this software. Feel free to give advice, critique or even praise if you like my efforts. All are equally valuable!
While I'm new to Daz 3d and Poser format, I've long enjoyed character creation and making imagery from screenshots in various game platforms, including things like Second Life, IMVU, Conan Exiles, EVE online and other MMOs that have vibrant or fun character creation engines and environments that lend to spectacular screenshots. Using Daz is the first time I've taken the plunge into using 'proper' software for this kind of thing and it's been a huge learning curve so far.
Along with Daz studio I also use Gimp for some edits along with a couple of online editors. Pretty grassroots stuff!
I hope to become more skilled with photoshop sometime in the future, but for now my simple editors will suffice.
I do love to write also, and I've often dreamed about creating graphic novels or comics, combined with my love of 3D character creation it made me fall in love with Daz straight away.
Most of my images are rendered in iray thus far, I struggle a lot with lighting and it's the main area I hope to improve in the short term. The other big problem holding me back is my hardware, my laptop really struggles with big scenes or renders and I really need a powerful, dedicated desktop to do Daz studio justice but its just not an option for now.
I'll start off with two of my favourite characters in some sci-fi scenes set in Dystopia city.
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Welcome to the Art Studio. Looks good. Your images don't look like the basic beginner renders so you're doing good so far. I really like that last action shot. Very nicely done. :)
Thanks for the encouragement!
A lot of my images contain a mix of Daz items along with stuff from other sites like Renderosity. I've been stocking up on a lot of free items too (like the shell casings in the last image). I was hesitant to post a thread, looking around at some of the amazing work of others with much greater skill and experience. But I'm having a ton of fun using Daz so far and wanted to share my progress with others. I've collected a big stable of characters already, but so far I've mostly been enjoying the GDN Maria and Teen Josie 7 figure bases the most, they're so much fun to work with so they feature a lot.
Josie helps me learn about lighting while experimenting with iray mist.
My five year old daughter asked me to do a unicorn picture for her. So I put this together for her. Original is in HD so I can print it out as a poster for her.
Experimenting with Michael 4 and LY Jolie figures
Experimenting with two of my favorite figures, GDN Maria with sports model morphs and her friend, a custom mixture Lara Full Fitness figure (@ Renderosity) and head and skin from Irisa and Aria figures.
Hey, this is great stuff for the time you've been 'Dazing' I've been at it for about three months and I'm nowhere near as skilled. I really like the distopian city, where did it come from, is it a DAZ asset?
Keep going and well done you.........................have a nice day.
Aww thanks a ton :)
For the city scenes I used
Along with a couple of others in the series to make a full city scene like I used in the 5th image where my character is airborne. Most of them are free!
In the 3rd image, on the street, it's simply one of those city blocks from the pack scaled up to 12000% (from memory). The sky cars are Daz assets from memory, I placed those myself along with the pedestrians and palm trees. The robot dog is a freebie I got from either Renderosity or CG share from memory, along with most of the weapons the characters are holding. Humanoid robots are from Daz and I got some freebie vehicles from other sites that I pulled the police lights from to make one of the sky cars a police version.
Welcome to the art studio! Looks like you have a pretty good handle on it for only being at it for a month or so. Studio definitely has a huge learning curve but there is also a large amount of information to be found here in the forums. You should check out the new users contest forum, even if you don't want to participate they have all the prior ones with a ton of links for tutorials, etc. for each subject.
Really great renders. I especially like the sci fi ones and the beach scene with the two characters. It's hard to believe you are a newbie. I have catch up work to do!
Welcome! Looks you're off to a great start! I look forward to seeing more of your work.
Welcome to the forums. I absolutely love the unicorn image that you did for your daughter. (and your other images also). This is generally a friendly bunch so share all you want. Here is a silly point directed more at the forum admins (tech side) than you. I've counted three of your posts in this thread alone. How come you still show 0 posts?
Yeah that is a little strange!
Thanks for all the nice words! Got myself a few more figures and some more resources recently. Been wanting to try to put some writing together with some images, so even though I'm a long way off being skilled enough I've been trying to put a short styled comic together. So time intensive, even using simple methods. I really think my computer is letting me down, decent graphics card but only 8gb of ram and 2.5ghz processor, it often memory dumps and crashes on big renders haha. I can only imagine how fast I could turn out pictures if I had a real computer that could blitz iray.
Anyway I been thinking about entering this month's new user challenge, portraits theme. Been playing around with a couple of fantasy characters, trying full body poortraits and zoomed-in headshots. Still test-rendering them at the moment, meanwhile I made this dark elf necromancer last night. She didn't render properly though, still speckled and the focus was out. But I kept it anyway and went and did some heavy edits on it out of boredom and it actually came out kinda cool haha
An entry for the july new user challenge.
I was mostly very happy with the composition and posing. Though I just couldn't get it to render without some left over pixelation :(
Made sure my firefly filter was on, got the lighting nice and bright and let it render for 5+ hours and still had a grainy image.
That is so cute, I love it!
Thanks!
I'm going to try and re-render it tonight, came out a little too grainy.
Very cute!
Thank you
I've been busy putting together more entries for the July new user contest (as well as trying to get my first one re-rendered), and now also began making a few submissions for Platinum Member Club's July 2017 Render Challenge in the PC subforum. Contest theme is "In the middle", and this is my first entry there.
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, rather the size of the fight in the dog! Mika in the middle here is the epitome of focus, confidence, and perhaps even a little blissful arrogance, as she muscles in on the big boys to steal the Sumo-show."
Title: Confidence
Daz Studio 4.9 with a little postwork done in Gimp
Second entry into the July New User challenge - portraits
Title: Fireball
This image was very painful. It took many days of render attempts and a lot of fighting with grainy-image issues.
Hey Twisty, how yuh doin'? After our post exchange a week or so ago, I went ahead and downloaded the Distopian City Blocks, absolutely brilliant, thanks for the tip. (See attached) I did this picture for my Grand-Daughter who is 2.5 years old. She is so into Lady Super-Heros. Her name is Lucy, I always call her Lucy Lu, the picture features Super Lucy Lu guarding the city. Needless to say she loves it and that makes me feel good too.
Have a nice day.
Awesome!! Looks great, glad you're enjoying those city blocks!
I got your message too, though just went to respond tonight and it's gone from my inbox lol But I'm from Australia
Been losing a bit of hope and motivation with Daz recently, sadly. My system just isn't up to running it and it's too painful to create images, I'm finding. Too CPU intensive, takes hours to setup a picture only to lose it in a memory crash dump, and waiting 15 minutes + for it to calm down after I cancel a render is just too much to bare. I'm still tinkering, but unfortunately it looks like I won't be able to enjoy the software properly witout spending thousands on a dedicated system
In anycase, here's a couple recent stuffs.
Super cute renders, sorry to hear about your system. I'm there with you right now, but I built my sestem so it can be upgraded bits and pieces at a time. Just need a new graphics card now so maybe I can quit rendering with my CPU. Soooo expensive to get though!
Thanks for the compliment!
Aye. Funny thing is I can run the latest, most demanding game software with (almost) no problems at all. I've never encountered anything anywhere near as resource demanding as Daz, and honeslty I can't figure out why it (needs) to be so. Perhaps if they spent effort making the software more efficient and accesible instead of spending time making yet another genisis model with a plethora of add ons more people would use it.
Sad thing is with what I've spent on Daz so far I probably could have upgraded my system haha
lol yea, I hear you. I could have probably bought a huge graphics card twice now and I'v only been here since January. :)
My system is the same way. I actually built it for gaming and it rocks for that, I can play anything set at high and no lag at all, but it can take days to do a render and I can't do anything else at all with my system while it's cooking!
You can always turn off one of your cores to Daz Studio so you can still do stuff on your computer
Edit: Go into Device Manager select the processes tab, scroll down till you see Daz Studio, RT click on it and select Set Affinity. At that point you turn off as many cores as you wish to free up processor.
Awesome tip! Thanks