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50 Shades of Iray : An Evening with Martin Frost
July 24, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm BST
Free – $97.00
Martin J Frost is a long standing content creator for DAZ Studio products. He specialises in creating textures, 3D plant models and clothing. One of his most notable products is the ILFS Layered Fabric System for Iray, allowing you to create your own unique fabrics from scratch, without having to learn the complexities of DAZ shaders or Photoshop. He also works with HowieFarks on creating ecosystem bundles for UltraScenery/UltraSceneryXT.
In this webinar, Martin demonstrates ILFS, highlights some of his other favourite products and shows sneak peaks of what will be released soon for UltraScenery. He’ll also show step by step how he composites artwork for generating his own promo art.
Webinar Date, Time and Duration
Date : Sunday 24th July
Time : 19:00 BST / 14:00 EDT / 11:00 PDT
Duration 1.5 hours
Webinar Content
Martin’s Background
- Costume designer, Horticulture and more!
Martin’s Favourite Products
What Martin learned from the development process of these products; challenges and successes in 3D content creation
- Ancient stone bundles
- A close look at the texture build
- Wild flowers and plants
- The Penny Dreadful Outfit for G2F
The ILFS Layered Fabric System for Iray
- How to create completely unique fabrics
- Options available
- How the layering system works
- What the add-on bundles provide
UltraScenery
- Martin’s current USXT product authored with HowieFarks
- Sneak peak of the new UltraScenery product!
Plant and Tree Creations
- Tropical palm trees
- Tropical palms vol 2
Creating and Compositing Promo Art
- DAZ Studio scene set up tips and tricks
- Advanced render settings using canvases
- Working with canvases in Photoshop
- Working with DOF in Photoshop
Premium Ticket
- HD quality Searchable and captioned recordings of the event (introductory and main sessions)
- Bonus 3D Content : A bundle of exotic Day Lilies, modeled using photographs of real garden and wild plants.
- Bonus 3D Content : Tropical palm trees -A huge set of over 35 botanically correct, realistic palm trees for Daz Studio and Iray
Platinum Ticket
All the benefits of the premium ticket
Join the STUDIO forum VIP resource area to access a huge searchable video library of every community workshop we’ve done to date!
- 40 searchable recordings with optional captions
- 60 hours of content
- Search the entire library at once
- Download all recordings as MP4 files
- 12 months access
Community Workshops throughout the next 12 months will be added to this resource.
Note that the majority of the content is centred on DAZ Studio.
There’s a large range of topics such as:-
- DAZ Studio
- Lighting
- Artificial Intelligent applications for art (Artbreeder and Wombo)
- FlowScape
- Artist mindsets
About the Presenter : Martin J Frost
Martin was born and raised in Cambridge (UK), lived in Montreal, Canada for some years and now lives in Norwich.
He works in 3d content creation and as a freelance Theatrical Designer and Wardrobe Manager, specialising in costume.
Previously he worked as a resident designer for pantomime at the Cambridge Arts Theatre in the 1990s, as a head of wardrobe for Disney, Cirque du Soleil and many other companies. He also worked as a resident theatrical designer for a local theatre company before lockdown.
Now freelance, Martin does the occasional gig for large scale shows around the country.
Earlier Martin qualified in Commercial Horticulture, apprenticed at the Cambridge University Botanic Garden and fell in to theatrical work due to a happy accident!
He chanced upon digital content creation whilst looking for a way to create 3d costume designs, by starting as a content creator for VUE, eventually switching over to DAZ Studio.
See Martin’s store at DAZ 3D