How to Create a New Custom DAZ Studio Creature

Have you ever wished to create a unique and customised creature for DAZ Studio?

We’ll teach you how….

Create a NEW creature : fully rigged and prepped from scratch!

Two Webinar Set to be held on 24th and 25th February

This new masterclass from SickleYield teaches you all the steps of creating a custom creature for DAZ Studio – from a new bone structure through to completion with full texturing.

A professional workflow is shown from start to finish, dealing with the specific steps and allowing for Q & A along the way. She’ll show modelling in Blender with the project of building a Gecko lizard.

Class Content (covered in two webinars)

SickleYield will use the Gestalt workflow of modelling: –

• Creating good bends
• Use of shape keys and geometry replacement.
• UV mapping
• Figure Setup
• Rigging
• Tweaking maps
• Making JCMs
• Eyelid pose controls
• Texturing

Premium Registration Includes:-

• Entrance to both webinars
• Bonus video talking about meshing, UV mapping, materials, and vertex group assignment in Blender
• Indexed MP4 download files of the recording of both webinars. The indexed videos allow you to jump to key learning points easily.

Standard Registration Includes:-

• Entrance to webinars
• Streamed recording only.

SESSION 1: The Rig (Blender and Daz Studio)

Saturday Feb 24th – 20:00 GMT (London)/12:00 PST (Los Angeles)/15:00 EST (New York)

Session is to last between 1.5 and 2 hours.

-Bonus video: box-modeling and setting up a figure for rigging in Blender with UV maps and Materials
-Intro with brief discussion of bonus video content
-Setting up a directory for your product to aid saving and distribution
-Export to Daz Studio via obj format
-Importing an obj to the Figure Setup tab
-Setting up a hierarchy and rotations in Figure Setup tab
-Assigning weight maps
-Tweaking weight maps joint by joint with the Weight Map Brush
-Creating basic joint-controlled morphs
-Creating advanced joint-controlled morphs that transition between values or affect multiple bends
-Creating pose controls for facial features and the tail
-Creating morphs for different character features
-Saving correctly

SESSION 2: The Textures (The GIMP, Zbrush and Substance Painter)

Sunday Feb 25th – 20:00 GMT (London)/12:00 PST (Los Angeles)/15:00 EST (New York)

Session is to last between 1.5 and 2 hours.

-Creating a “dev” directory for your WIP textures
-Finding legal texture sources
-Creating brushes from photos for Zbrush and Substance Painter use
-Prepping the mesh for texturing
-Creating the high rez portion of the normal map in Zbrush
-Importing your mesh to Substance Painter
-Importing Zbrush’s normal maps to Substance Painter
-Painting a texture in Substance Painter with an updated normal map
-Using different brushes to get different looks on different body areas
-Exporting textures from Substance Painter
-Setting up shaders for different body material areas in the Surfaces Tab
-Saving materials and saving your figure with textures
-Creating additional diffuse texture colors and patterns in the GIMP from those painted in Substance Painter