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The Creative Cart
April 6, 2024 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm BST
The Creative Cart is a curated exploration of recommended assets from the DAZ 3D store, designed to inspire, educate, and empower you in your DAZ Studio creativity.
Join us as hosts Paul Bussey and Dartanbeck showcase chosen assets that can serve as your building blocks for breathtaking digital art.
“Creative Cart” will provide you with a valuable resource for discovering tools that can bring your artistic ideas into reality. Through themed episodes, we’ll spotlight various genres and assets—be it characters, shaders, environments, scripts, clothing or props—ensuring every creator finds something that resonates with their personal artistic journey.
it’s also about interaction where we include a community section where you can share your favourite finds, and add to the conversation about how these assets have shaped your own creations; we’d love to get your insights and recommendations on assets that have made a difference to your artwork!
Highlighted Vendor : Andrey Pestryakov
Andrey Pestryakov’s diverse work shows a broad range of environments and themes, from lush forests and mysterious caves to ancient ruins and tropical settings. He shows a great understanding of different landscapes, both natural and constructed. He provides a range of detailing products, such as intricate textures in the “Ivy Pack” or realistic materials in the “Liquid Decal Materials” and “Ground Decal Materials,”. Andrey has a commitment to realism and immersion in digital scenes! Additionally, specialized packs like “Environment Pack for Unreal Engine” indicate a focus on utility for game development, offering assets that can be easily integrated into interactive media.
Seasonal and thematic packs, such as “Cozy Winter” and “Medieval Lands,” further demonstrate his ability to create versatile content that can adapt to different narrative and atmospheric needs. This blend of nature-focused, architectural, and character animation resources makes Pestryakov’s work invaluable to creators across genres, enhancing the visual storytelling of digital art, games, and animations.
In this session Dartanbeck will spotlight the best of Andrey’s environment kits!
Highlighted Assets
- Andrey’s environment kits
- Solid rock environments : Temple Cave, Blocks & Structures
- Ravines, arches and passageways : Nature Ravine, Arches of the Past
- Stone structures, valleys and hills : Overgrown Peaks, Stones HR
- Andrey’s Forest Bundle
- Wide open spaces : Medieval lands, Valleys & Hills
- Millennial SubDragon by Digiport Sarsa
This majestic creature, adaptable and efficient, allows for smooth workflow without compromising on quality, thanks to its subdivision capabilities. With over 12 head morphs and numerous body modifications, this dragon stands as one of the the most expressive and customizable beasts in the digital realm!
From its fully articulated mouth, eyes, and tongue to the versatile body and wing poses, crafting your ideal dragon has never been more straightforward.
It comes equipped with two sets of detailed textures and various scaling poses to model dragons of any size, from tiny hatchlings to towering behemoths.
With twenty-six additional poses and full compatibility with both Poser and DAZ Studio, bringing your dragon to life across platforms is a breeze.
- MysticShard & SimonWM : Millenial SubDragon Aniblocks
- 16 aniBlocks pack
MysticShard’s creative flair shines in these animations, and it’s genuinely impressive! They’ve crafted a dynamic range of 16 animations that span from a fierce growl, seamless walking and flying loops, to dramatic tumbles from the sky, and everything that follows. The animations cover claw attacks, hovering and smooth transitions from hovering to landing. What’s really captivating is the versatility of the walk cycles, offering both bipedal and quadrupedal movements.
Dartanbeck’s Animation Corner
The Millennium SubDragon, Daz 3D’s inaugural SubD figure, is an absolute blast!
In preparation for this event, Dartanbeck has immersed himself in customizing its look, experimenting with countless shaping combinations, and bringing it to life with MysticShard/Simon WM’s aniBlock collection, even creating custom dials to push the boundaries further!
Daniel has crafted a unique custom animation that he’s excited to showcase featuring the SubDragon galloping with Rosie on its back, both sharing a laugh! The hair simulation adds a delightful touch, lightening the atmosphere and sparking laughter. He’ll also walk you through an approach to material optimization, using Iray and Octane, to revive legacy figures in a quick, easy-to-modify workflow.
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The Community Corner
Free Assets Challenge!
As part of our Creative Cart event, we’d love to challenge you to utilize our handpicked selection of FREE models from the DAZ store, including:-
- Crocus Plants – Spring Flowers by MartinJFrost
- ElasmotheriumDR (giant rhino) : DAZ original
- Gallimimus by Vairesh
- Iray Nature Shaders: Bark by Martin J Frost
- FH Indoor pool
Weave a unique story that includes one or more of the above assets. Whether you’re crafting a scene of prehistoric wonder, a tranquil spring garden, or a luxurious retreat, these assets are your tools to bring imaginative visions to life! Share your creations at our Creative Cart event, inspiring other artists.
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Searchable recording at HD resolution, including optional captions
Bonus video content : The DAZ 3D Shopping Survival Guide by Drew Spence (GriffinAvid) and includes the DAZ Deals plugin author. (2 hours 20 minutes)
Drew Spence is a store survival expert after utilising hundreds of DAZ assets for illustrating his graphic novels and he presents a deep dive survival guide. This presentation included Special guest artist Overdrawn who created the DAZ Deals browser add on (a super useful shopping aid).
Content includes : Setting Up DAZ Studio : Account Management : Platinum Club : Sales : Gift cards : Managing your library : understanding purchases/product types : Finding stuff (part 2) : 3rd party purchases : The DAZ Deals Browser Addon
About the presenter : Dartanbeck
Dartanbeck began his Digital Art journey by painting game tiles for tabletop fantasy games. He then became a texture artist for 3d game characters for a world-wide gaming community from which he has received several Hall of Fame awards. This immediately sparked his desire to create digital animations in the form of movies or shorts and has been dedicated to that pursuit ever since.
Now as a Daz 3d published artist, he has released several environment kits for Carrara software – specifically designed with animated movie makers in mind, plus released two character animation packs.
Dartanbeck is currently animating using Daz Studio and Carrara software and is having a lot of fun and success with it. Throughout his animation projects, he loves to share his experiences to help others to succeed as well.
His animation workflow includes Daz Studio with a collection of add-on plugins, Carrara 8.5 Pro, PD Howler, Affinity Photo, DaVinci Resolve, HitFilm and Magix MusicMaker Premium.
Dartanbeck lives in a small fishing city in Wisconsin and loves the changing seasons and has always been at home in the wilderness. He has spent his career chiseling custom stonework, designing and building cliff extensions, waterfalls, ponds, walls, patios… even custom outdoor furniture made of stone. He is also a performing musician.