Picture Books : Illustrating Children’s Books with DAZ Studio

DAZ Studio has amazing potential to create colourful characters and scenes to illustrate children’s books.

In this feature packed event, Tiffanie Gray shares all her experience in creating and publishing picture books using DAZ Studio as her primary creative tool. She talks about her successes and mistakes along the way, providing an inspiring journey showing that picture books can provide a “can do” project when starting out with publishing a visual narrative.

Webinar Details

Date : Saturday April 2nd

Time :  21:00 BST (London) /15:00 EDT (New York) /12:00 PDT (Los Angeles)

Premium Ticket

• Includes entry to introductory and main events
• Searchable recordings of events with captions
• Bonus tutorial set on Visual Story Writing by Drew Spence (3 hours 24 minutes)

Webinar Content

• About Tiffanie
  • Books published so far
  • What’s inspired Tiffanie
• The Reading Audience
  • Age and word counts
  • Choosing a niche
• The Format
  • Page count
  • Trim size
  • Hardback or softback
  • Margins
  • Full bleed
  • Print or electronic
• The Design : The Overall Layout
  • Page planning
  • Non story pages
  • The font
  • Colour set
• The Design : The Cover
  • Convey the story in a snapshot
  • The font
  • The spine and back cover
  • Thumbnails
• Tiffanie’s Project and Content Organisation
  • Folder structures
  • Project spreadsheet files
  • Render library
• The Narrative
  • What’s the objective / theme?
  • Chicken or egg : pictures or narrative first?
  • The narrative may be altered by lack of flexibility of assets
• DAZ Studio : Scene Case Studies
  • Five scenes we can learn from
  • Recommended scene set ups
  • Render settings
  • Character design
  • Body Language and Facial Expressions
• Postwork Decisions
  • Fixes on lighting
  • Special effects
• Layout Editor : Tiffanie’s tools
  • In-Design or Affinity In-Design ($50)
  • Photoshop template
• The Publisher : Experience with the publishing process
  • Self publishing : The Amazon Kindle Platform
  • Testing a Kindle ebook before publishing
  • Publishing for printed books
• A little on marketing

About Tiffanie Gray

Tiffanie is known as Dakorillon and Immortal Moments Art to the art world on the web. She has been selling at Renderosity and HiveWire3D since 2016. She has been using PD Howler (known as Project Dogwaffle), since version 1.1a in 2001. She originally started using PD Howler since it’s a natural fit for artists that have a traditional background – and so began learning it with glee! She now uses Howler for nearly everything to do with digital art and content creation. Since 3D artwork is becoming an indispensable tool in her box of tricks, she is happy that Howler still works so well with these new tools.

All of her art experience is self taught, she read books or took small workshops to learn traditional art. Howler, then Daz Studio, Poser, Hexagon and other art programs she has added were by the the same method. She primarily focuses on fantasy and science fiction, but also creates still lifes, landscapes and portraits. She also uses her images in book cover designs and web design.

ImmortalMomentsArts.com

All artwork on this event page by Tiffanie Gray