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The Creative Cart : The AntFarm
August 17, 2024 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 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 Dartanbeck on “Creative Cart,” where he explores stunning assets that can enrich your DAZ Studio scenes. Each episode is themed to highlight a DAZ vendor as well as a range of assets and tools—including characters, shaders, environments, scripts, clothing, and props—tailored to boost your artistic endeavors!
“Creative Cart” is more than just a showcase; it’s an interactive platform. We feature a community section where you can share your own artwork, recommend your top asset picks and engage in discussions about how these tools have influenced your creations. Get ready to share and show; jot down artwork you’d like to screenshare, helping other artists learn from your creative projects.
Highlighted Vendor : The AntFarm
Dartanbeck Explores some of The AntFarm’s Huge Catalogue!
The AntFarm is an incredibly versatile digital artist known for creating an extensive array (369 to date!) of 3D models that span across various genres, primarily focusing on sci-fi, fantasy, steampunk, and dystopian themes.
His work includes highly detailed characters, creatures, vehicles, and environments that cater to both modern and historical settings!
The AntFarm’s models are super popular in the DAZ3D community for their creativity and attention to detail!
Dartanbeck says “Ever since I started using Daz 3D, I’ve been a big fan of this talented artist.”
“His imaginative, realistic-yet-slightly-unreal 3D assets are not only fun to work with but also look absolutely awesome!”
Highlighted Assets
Here’s just three highlighted assets from The AntFarm – Dartanbeck will be featuring many more during the session.
Star Hauler : Salvage Ship
Overview: The Star Hauler Salvage Ship is a versatile spacecraft designed for quick and efficient treasure extractions. Perfect for both small and large salvage operations, it comes equipped with an optional Cargo Sled for handling bigger hauls. In case of emergency, the ship allows for cargo jettison, ensuring the safety of the crew.
Features:
- Star Hauler Ship: Sleek design for fast extractions.
- Cargo Hauler Sled: Optional sled for larger salvage operations.
- Props: Includes cargo boxes and pods, both free-fall and sled-mounted.
- Poses and Morphs: Easy-to-use landing gear with pose dial and morph for up/down positions.
- Interior: Limited hull space suitable for various cargo types.
Sky Traffic
Overview: Sky Traffic is an essential addition to any urban future setting, offering a detailed and efficient way to populate your scenes with dynamic vehicles without overloading your render engine. Utilizing highly detailed maps and low polygon models, this set ensures smooth rendering while filling your foreground, midground, and background with realistic action. It includes texture presets for both Iray and 3Delight, available in 4k and 1k map size options.
Features:
- Customizable Vehicles: Each vehicle in the set is unique and can be customized for a more realistic look.
- Material Options: Includes materials for both Iray and 3Delight, with resolutions of 1K and 4K.
- Props and Accessories: A variety of props and accessories to enhance the vehicles and overall scene.
Last Earth Object
Overview: “Last Earth Object” is a versatile sci-fi set designed to depict the final remnants of a dying planet. This set features various elements that showcase what humanity might leave behind or take with them as they escape a doomed Earth. It includes detailed props and materials, offering a choice between preserving ocean life, storing the last clean water, or suspending important objects in a futuristic chamber.
Features:
- Preload Sets: Includes main chamber and front tank sets for easy scene setup.
- Single Props: Features unique items like a Mystery Orb, Flower, and Tree Stump.
- Material Options: Various wall textures and orb materials for customization.
- Compatibility: Builds available for both Iray and 3Delight render engines.
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- Searchable recording of this session with HD resolution, including optional captions
- How to Create Sci-Fi Special Effects by Drew Spence (2 hours 55 minutes)
- Creating an astounding Science Fiction Universe requires numerous special effects! Drew Spence guides you step-by-step on producing laser swords, energy bolts, explosions, laser blaster effects, battle damage, starship jets, and contrails to add extra dynamics to your artwork.
- Using Daz Studio and Photoshop, Drew demonstrates must-have resources and techniques to enhance your Sci-Fi renders. He also incorporates ParticleShop and other powerful resources to create stand-out effects.
- This product includes 2 hours and 55 minutes of tutorials and many supporting files to help you quickly start making your own special effects.
- Software required:
- Daz Studio
- Photoshop (or GIMP)
- ParticleShop (to a lesser extent)
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.