DAZ Studio : Refined Rigging – Clothing Case Studies

This tutorial has a particular focus on the more challenging issues found in rigging clothing. Presented by Esha, this provides almost two hours of step by step tuition on some vital solutions for the more awkward aspects of rigging.

– Creating JCMs for awkward areas
– Considering and adjusting the meshes
– Weight painting
– JCM tricks

Now includes discussion with Genesis 8!

Requirements

The tutorial requires you to have some knowledge on how to use the transfer tool, the weight brush, the morph loader and Daz Studio’s general features. Daz Studio 4.9 Pro and modelling software ZBrush 4R7 are used in this presentation.

Webinar Date, Time and Duration

Saturday August 12th – 20:00 BST (London)/12:00 PDT (Los Angeles)/15:00 EDT (New York)

The session is to last between 1.5- 2 hours.

Content

Case Study 1 : Long-sleeved Shirt

– Low-res vs. high-res (example: elbow)
– Wide vs. tight mesh (example: armpits)
– Creating JCMs for armpits
– Fixing the lower neck

Case Study 2 : Long Pants

– Tightening mesh (as needed)
– Adjusting weight maps
– Adding JCMs

Case Study 3 : Panties

– Working with smaller garments
– Resolution
– Symmetric weight painting
– JCM tricks:
– Two mirroring methods
– The Smoothing Modifier
– Morph controlled by two rotations, using the second stage feature

Presenter : Esha

Esha lives in Austria and has been creating 3D products for nearly 12 years.
She has created content for Smith Micro and Daz and is an active vendor at daz3d.com.

When Daz released the Developer Tools for Daz Studio in 2008 she integrated them into her workflow and has been working with Daz Studio, alongside Poser, ever since. In recent years she has been focusing on DS for product development.

Esha’s favourite tools include Daz Studio, Poser, ZBrush, Wings3D, Xfrog, Marvelous Designer, UVLayout and Photoshop. In all of these she is a self-taught artist, basing her skills on years of experience and numerous online tutorials.
She fully understands the difficulties of moving from Poser to Daz Studio, having made that journey herself, and enjoys passing on her Studio know-how to new users.

Esha also has several years of experience in teaching adults. She firmly believes that the best way to learn is to actively do something yourself, so she favours a hands-on approach in teaching.

Knowing only too well how tiresome it is to gather scraps of information all over the web she wants to provide comprehensive webinars that really offer solid information. Moving from the basics to advanced procedures she takes care to make sure that her audience will be able to follow her courses smoothly.

In her spare time Esha loves listening to classical music, baking muffins and collecting cat photos.