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A Dive into Decals
July 2, 2023 @ 9:00 pm – 10:30 pm BST
Step up your DAZ Studio game with an exclusive webinar featuring published artist Martin J. Frost, with a focus on storytelling through decals. This session will not only delve into the fundamentals of decals, their importance, and limitations but also demonstrate how they can transform your scene art.
Decals offer a unique way to boost the realism of your scenes, creating captivating visual narratives. Learn how to add intricate features like potholes, ruts, road markings, and the tiniest details, such as micro cracks and gum on tarmac.
Gain firsthand experience with Martin’s innovative decal products, like “Road Features, Stains, Cracks, and Seams Decals” and “Tracks and Footprints for Daz Studio”. These products offer adjustable effects and details that add depth without requiring a rework of your object’s material set.
The webinar doesn’t stop at the “do’s”. Martin will also highlight the limitations of decals, and how to navigate them. Learn how to prepare your scene, manage resources efficiently, and keep your designs effective and impactful.
No matter your skill level in Daz Studio, this session promises valuable insights that will elevate your artistry. Don’t miss this chance to learn from one of the best. Sign up today to transform your designs with the power of decals.
Teaching Content
- Understanding decals, advantages and use in Daz Studio
- Recognizing the ways decals can enhance a scene’s realism including helping with depth and perspective.
- Learning how decals can add subtle texture to scenes, for example, micro-cracks and gum on tarmac.
- Leveraging decals to guide the viewer’s focus within the scene.
- Using decals to tell a story or create a narrative within a scene.
- Introduction to Martin’s decal products: “Road Features, Stains, Cracks, and Seams Decals” and “Tracks and Footprints for Daz Studio”.
- Discovering the benefits of decals, including how they provide an adjustable way of placing effects and details on objects without having to rework the entire material set.
- Understanding and overcoming limitations of decals.
- Learning the do’s and don’ts of working with decals, including scene and object preparation, decal positioning, and resource management.
- The importance of planning and simplicity in creating effective decal effects, along with tips for preparation and setup.
- Martin’s new “Road Features, Stains, Cracks, and Seams Decals” pack will also be featured and shown.
Event Details
Date : Sunday July 2nd: 21:00 BST (London) / 14:00 EDT (New York) / 11:00 PDT (Los Angeles)
Duration : Up to 1.5 hours (30 minutes for free ticket holders)
Ticket Options
Free Ticket
- Entry to the first 30 minutes of the event only
Premium Ticket
- Entry to the whole event
- HD searchable recording of event
- Bonus tutorial : 50 Shades of Iray : Martin demonstrates how to use ILFS – creating your own fabrics from the ground up.
- DAZ Studio content pack : Road markings and decals pack
- Enhance Daz Studio scenes with essential road markings and surface features using this bundle’s powerful decal abilities.
- Add variation and interest to repetitive or dull surfaces, ideal for tarmac, concrete, or dirt.
- Create unique effects by stacking, scaling, and reorienting the renders included in the bundle.
- Easy setup involves adding a base node, ensuring it’s parented to the desired surface, and choosing your preferred material from the bundle.
- Customize road surfaces with the kit’s dashed and continuous line options in white and yellow for a unique, realistic look
- Includes 38 materials
Click here to see example of the road marking and decals pack
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