MOST Rendered Characters

Have a careful look in your renders folder and discover what is your most rendered character and why?

What makes you use that character over and over again? What approach did you use in designing that character? How did you build them?

You could consider your most used male character as well as female.

As a community let’s share our most rendered characters so that we can:-

• Learn how to build successful characters
• Identify key elements of what makes a successful character
• Overcome common challenges during the build
• Share useful resources used for 3D character development 

I’d love to see renders you’ve done with your most used character and learn why you’ve repeatedly selected them.

Your most used character could be generated in any software; DAZ Studio, Poser, MetaHuman or other.

What makes that character stand out for you? Is it…

• Versatility in terms of options (or from add on products for that character)?
• What kind of morphs can you dial for that versatility?
• Is it the default realistic skin or hair that makes that character shine for you?
• If it is a more toon-like character, then what makes it stand out?
• Is it how the character just looks good in the camera, no matter the angle?!

Pro Artists Invited

Contributors to our VISNews magazine and our regular visual narrative artist partners have been invited to this event. Benefit from their experience and expertise!

Webinar Details

Date: Sunday 1st of May

Time: 20:00 BST (London) / 12:00 PDT (Los Angeles) /  15:00 EDT (New York)

Duration : 1.5+ hours

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Premium Ticket

• Entry to this webinar
• HD searchable and captioned webinar recording of this workshop
• Bonus tutorial set – Creating Compelling Characters by Peter von Stackelberg and Esther Mann (3 hours 10 minutes)

This tutorial set is for you if you have wanted to tell a story visually with convincing characters. This tutorial has a focus on DAZ Studio as the primary tool to construct the character art, but contains many general principals applicable to anyone constructing a visual narrative. 

• • Body types
  • Basic Face Shapes
  • Character relationship maps
  • DAZ Studio Deformer tool
  • Adding scars and cuts to a character
  • Factors that shape a story!
  • Setting First Impressions
  • Elements to understanding a character
  • Key Properties of Characters
  • The Characters Populating Your Storyworld
  • Major, Minor and Placeholder Characters
  • Character Archetypes
  • Avoiding Clichés and Stereotypes
  • Why is it important that characters be distinctive?
  • What makes a character distinctive looking?
  • Purposeful Resemblances
  • Challenges In Distinctive Features
  • How characters are typically differentiated
  • Ways to test your cast’s distinctiveness

Platinum Ticket

• All the benefits above of the premium ticket
• 12 months access to the Visual Narratives Academy  at a special 50% discount this week only : –50% $ 227.00 $ 115.00

If you create visual stories (or have always wanted to do so) using DAZ Studio, Poser, VUE or other software, you may have come across these challenges:-

> You have a GREAT idea for a visual story, but don’t know where to start and how to turn that into a plan of action…

> You’ve spent hours trying to build attractive artwork, and you feel stuck with a slow workflow…

> You’ve been trying to find a consistent style that makes your artwork different from everyone else…

> There’s a feeling of overwhelm in trying to get your story told, when dealing with digital art tools…

We provide the ultimate resource for artists bogged down in these problems, that could transform your skills sets, speed up your workflow and bring your ideas to life.

The Visual Narratives Academy has a huge library of resources to help you develop your story ideas to fully rendered sequential artwork.

What do these resource include?

• A unique library of tutorials ($2000 value of 38 recordings = about 90 hours). We add new videos to this collection, so it continues to grow. Most of them are by professional digital artists and writers Drew Spence, Tasos Anastasiades and Peter von Stackelberg.
• An exclusive monthly PDF magazine VISNews. It’s the only publication in the world for Visual Narrative artists using 3D digital tools with in-depth interviews, industry news, software news, tips and competition news. 30 issues have been published to date.
• There’s also a private forum just for Visual Narrative Artists that have the common goal of transforming the stories in their imagination into awesome sequential artwork.

Click on the button below to learn about the Visual Narratives Academy