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The Creative Cart : Jack Tomalin
September 22, 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 : Jack Tomalin
About Jack
Jack Tomalin’s journey into 3D digital art began with his fascination for the CGI effects in the television series Babylon 5. This iconic show ignited his passion for the field, especially after discovering he had access to the same software used by the series’ visual effects team on his second-hand Commodore Amiga 4000! With no formal training and limited resources, Jack taught himself the basics of 3D modelling through a laborious process of trial and error. His persistence paid off when he started to recreate detailed models from the show, with the Starfury ship becoming his first major project. Jack’s dedication to refining his craft is evident in the hundreds of hours spent perfecting this model over the years.
Jack’s early forays into 3D modelling, including features in Amiga Format magazine, fueled his confidence and led to a shift towards architecture-based models. While he continues to enjoy creating sci-fi content, Jack found that architectural models, particularly with a gothic influence, had broader appeal and became a significant focus of his work. His meticulous attention to detail is especially evident in his work on historical and atmospheric sets, such as his series based on the Titanic and the Baroque Grandeur interior. Jack’s ability to balance artistic passion with the practical demands of time and market appeal is a hallmark of his career, as seen in the creation of his successful and intricate 3D environments.
Highlighted Assets
Here’s just two highlighted assets from Jack Tomalin’s store – Dartanbeck will be featuring many more during the session.
Saba’a AlKair Bundle
Saba’a AlKair blends Persian, Islamic, and Indian architectural styles into a serene, marble backdrop with striking geometric shapes and ornate water features.
The modular design allows flexibility to build a full 360° scene or focus on individual elements.
This exclusive bundle includes both original and Iray versions, along with an extended preload scene for creating expansive backdrops.
GIS Skyway and Expansion Iray Add-on
The GIS Skyway and Expansion Iray Add-on combines two previous 3Delight products into a fully-assembled environment with new instances, lights, cloud plane, and atmosphere. Mirrors extend the scene with endless road reflections.
Spotlights feature an EIS profile for realistic fog effects, and the main intersection lights indicate traffic flow with green and red glows. The finely tuned midnight render setting enhances the lights with a subtle bloom.
This set includes all scene subsets from the original products, plus new props and lights, allowing you to create custom assemblies. Multiple cloud planes can be loaded at once, as shown in the promos.
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- Searchable recording of this session with HD resolution, including optional captions
- PDF Magazine Interview with Jack Tomalin
- Iray Solutions bonus tutorial (2 hours). Community Workshops with tips including:
- Improving Iray render times
- Making gel lights for Iray
- Critique of Iray renders from various artists
- Emissive lighting
- Cutting down on render time on scenes with atmospheric affects
- GPU and CPU rendering
- Indoor scenes with Iray
- Light setups for character skin
- Daz Product discussion :use of Bokeh studio – light and HDR set
- Experimenting with duplicate light sets
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.