GENERATIONS : DAZ Studio and Poser Character Evolutions

Both DAZ Studio and Poser have seen a long line of characters created over time. As each generation of character arrived, artists invest in content that might soon be outdated or made incompatible by the time a new figure hits the market. Some backward compatibility exists and there are utilities that help convert clothing content, but sometimes there’s confusion and pain when trying to fit cool looking clothing from generation X on a character in generation Y.

In this two session workshop, we’re pooling together the collective experience of DAZ Studio artists (we’re also featuring Carrara) and Poser artists to share valuable experience on working with different generation characters. It’s also about a celebration of the evolution, since there are fond memories of using that older content. Plus in certain circumstances there are some real advantages to using older characters.

As well as looking at compatibility between generations in the respective Poser and DAZ Studio stables, there is of course some limited cross over between the base meshes (older meshes) of Poser and DAZ Studio.

This is a community workshop where DAZ Studio and Poser artists are invited to share their tips and artwork in the respective sessions on the topics below

If you have a useful tip to share, even if it’s just for a few minutes, then please get in touch!

Premium Ticket

• 3+ hours of HD Webinar recordings of sessions 1 and 2
• Bonus tutorial – Mastering clothing conversion between Poser and DAZ Studio (2016) by Paul Lessard from Hivewire 3d (1.5 hours+)
• Bonus tutorial – How to import and render Genesis 3 in Poser 11 by Willdial and Lululee (1 hour 35 minutes)

Session 1 Generations : DAZ Studio – also featuring Carrara

Date: Saturday 11th of April

Time: 19:00 BST (London) / 11:00 PDT (Los Angeles) /  14:00 EDT (New York)

Let’s pack this session with as many high value tips as possible, share your experience with…

• Using Genesis 8 : pro tips
• The pros and cons of using each generation.
• Compatibility
• Using Iray with different Genesis versions
• Morphs between generations?
• Tips for converting content (clothing) between generations
• Recommendation and experience of utilities (eg RSSY Clothing Converter by Riversoft/Sickleyield)
• Who is your favourite character and why? Show us your character artwork!
• Successful use of older characters : Victoria 4 is alive and kicking?
• Using DAZ figures outside of the native environment in other applications
• Carrara – insights on using DAZ characters
• Hivewire 3D figures and content

Session 2 Generations : Poser

Date: Sunday 12th of April

Time: 19:00 BST (London) / 11:00 PDT (Los Angeles) /  14:00 EDT (New York)

Let’s pack this session with as many high value tips as possible, share your experience with…

• La Femme and L’Homme
• Hivewire 3D figures Dawn, Dusk and others together with associated content
• Paul 2 and Pauline 2
• Who is your favourite character and why? Show us your character artwork!
• The pros and cons of using each generation.
• Compatibility
• Tips for converting content (clothing) between generations
• Recommendation and experience of utilities to help convert clothing content
• Successful use of older characters : animation projects or background characters
• Using Poser figures outside of the native environment in other applications

• We’ll include a demo of using the fitting room to fit a difficult clothing article (Mike Mitchell)