Recommendations for Sci-Fi Renderings?

creativewriters

Does anybody have any recommendations for what figures, backgrounds, etc I should get to start doing sci-fi renderings? I want to do male and female humans, aliens, spaceships, space statons, and alien planets and landscapes. 

Hylas

Sci-Fi Kit 2016 by Stonemason looks like a lot of fun, it's been on my wishlist for a while now.

Ascania

You should start with everything that's labeled "sci fi" in the store.

 

Then you should sit down and actually think about what your sci fi is supposed to look like.

LenioTG

There's PLEEEENTY of material in the Daz Shop for you! ^^

As said above, use the filter "Sci-Fi", that's almost everywhere!

billyben_0077a25354

There are plenty of Sci-Fi content in the store.  Think about getting a Platinum Club Membership as there is a wealth of Sci-Fi content that is PC+.  Just buying several items from Petipet's catalog will save the cost of a Quarterly membership.  There are 347 items of Platinum Club Sci-fi content alone which should get you started.

bytescapes

I'd definitely echo the advice to get a PC+ membership. There are lots of superb sci-fi artists in the store, but getting everything they've made will bankrupt you. PC+ does include some excellent products at much more affordable prices. Some recent offerings for PC+ are particularly good on the quality/price scale: for example, I think Ensk Station and Ensk Outpost offer a lot of possibilities. The Sci-Fi Ship Building Blocks also looks very promising, and it's still at an introductory price, so now would be a good time to get it. You can find more by going here, and clicking the 'Show only PC+' checkbox. If the $70 for an annual membership is too much, you can get a quarterly membership for $24, and then you have three months to go hog-wild in the store and grab all the PC+ items you think you'll need before your membership expires.

As a general rule, consider getting modular items that you can combine and recombine, like Stonemason's Modular Sci-Fi Kit and Modular Sci-Fi Kit 02, or -- for city scenes -- the Greeble City Blocks or Project Xion, rather than buying a monolithic set. The big sets are often works of art, but they're less reusable than the products that offer a kit of pieces. Component kits, such as DZFire's excellent Nurnies Greebles Parts and Pieces are also worth having on hand. You can make a simple model look spectacular by judicious use of greebles.

If you'll pardon the self-promotion, may I suggest you take a look at my gallery? I'm not the best artist on the site by a very long way, but I do make a point of listing all the products that I use. If I list a product, that means I found it useful in a scene, so that's an implicit recommendation. If it shows up in more than one image, that's probably a sign that I found it particularly useful. Other artists may do the same, so if you see the same product showing up again and again, that's probably a good indication that lots of people found it useful (of course, if you want to ensure your own art has a unique look, you may not want to use the same product as everyone else; you decide).

creativewriters

Thanks, everybody! I'll check all those things out. 

creativewriters

Thanks, everybody! I'll check all those things out.