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The Creative Cart : Halloween Special
October 26, 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.
Beyond the Spooky!
Join us for a thrilling Halloween-themed edition of The Creative Cart, where we’ll dive into advanced DAZ Studio techniques to elevate your spooky renders! More than just showcasing models, we’ll explore innovative methods that bring your scenes to life—while having a blast thinking outside the box!
This special episode coincides with the exciting release of DAZ Studio 4.23. Dartanbeck will be showcasing the latest features, including the game-changing Filament Draw Options and the powerful FilaToon shader. Plus, as a bonus, we’ve prepared an exclusive Filament Lighting Preset to help you enhance your scenes. You can download it and follow along with the demonstration!
When you attend you’ll receive receive a free Filament Lighting Preset!
Key Highlights:
- Creature Transformations: Watch as Kagiso, a Genesis 8 Male character by Javier Michael, transforms into a beastly figure with RawArt’s Snow Beast. We’ll also use DAZ’s Geometry Sculptor and Mesh Grabber to create realistic transformations and effects.
- Classic Backdrops Reimagined: Rediscover nostalgic backdrops like Hunter’s Moon and On A Certain Night by LaurieS, and learn how to make the most of Multiplane Cyclorama and Millennium Environment by Stonemason with the latest Filament enhancements.
- Magix 101 Gothic City: Explore eerie scenes using Magix 101’s Iray Worlds and its Super Pak expansion for even more depth in your Halloween renders.
- HDRI Spooky Scenes: Dive into the world of spooky HDRI backdrops using kits from JDA HDRI and see how to add unsettling atmosphere to your scenes.
- Monstrous Creations: We couldn’t have a Halloween special without highlighting some of Josh Crockett’s monstrous creatures—perfect for adding some Halloween horror!
Event Ticket options
Free Ticket
- Free entry to the whole event.
- Attend to receive a free Filament Lighting Preset!
Premium Ticket
- Recording of this session with HD resolution.
- Bonus tutorial set : Horror Lighting – The Definitive Guide by Dawn Spears
- 2 hours and 20 minutes
- How to create a creepy atmosphere:
- Use of color
- Use of shadow to obscure
- Unusual camera angles
- Harsh lighting (no soft edges)
- Images through other objects, windows, trees, etc.
- Framing scenes. Claustrophobic, clashing colors/patterns
- Harsh angles on shapes i.e. evil triangles
- Types of Horror Lighting:
- Uplighting
- Spotlighting
- Low Key – emphasizes shadows
- Hard lights – increased contrast
- Backlighting – strong backlight with added fog
- Background lighting – silhouette
- Saturating with the color red or blue, sometimes green
- Case Studies:
- Case study 1: Nosferatu – a gothic classic – the silhouette and stairway
- Case study 2: Alien – Sci-Fi corridor
- Case study 3: Blair Witch Project
- Case study 4: “It” – Supernatural Horror
- Case study 5: The Shining – Psychological
- Case study 6: Psycho – Psychological
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.