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The Creative Cart : dForce with Linday in an Urban Future
Saturday November 23 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm GMT
The Creative Cart offers a curated journey through top recommended assets from the DAZ 3D store, crafted to inspire, educate, and enhance your creative work in DAZ Studio
Join Dartanbeck on “Creative Cart,” where we dive into a rich selection of assets that can elevate your DAZ Studio scenes. Each episode highlights a DAZ vendor and showcases an array of tools and assets—from characters and shaders to environments, scripts, clothing, and props—all carefully chosen to spark and support your creative projects.
At the start of each event, we dedicate 15 minutes for artists to share assets or artwork, offering a brief but valuable opportunity to see and discuss creative applications. Then, immerse yourself as we explore new ways to expand your artistic toolkit and bring your scenes to life!
dForce with Linday in the Urban Future!
Welcome to Episode Nine of The Creative Cart! In this session, Dartanbeck dive into Linday’s dForce hair collection to uncover what makes it exceptional and explore ways to style it creatively to suit your characters’ unique personalities.
Our setting for this deep dive is Stonemason’s Urban Future series—a journey through the evolution of DAZ 3D’s iconic environments, from its early releases to the latest cutting-edge designs.
In Animation Corner, we’ll demonstrate the power of animation sets from Havanalibere, providing valuable tools to enhance your skills and add dynamic flair to Linday’s incredible dForce hair assets. Join us for an inspiring exploration!
See Dartanbeck’s Wide Ranging Website on DAZ Studio Assets, Tips and Tricks
Classic Long Curly Hair with dForce for Genesis 8 Females
For Dartanbeck, the shift from animating in Carrara—something he truly loved—to working in DAZ Studio came down to one compelling factor: Classic Long Curly Hair with dForce. This single asset was the turning point that led him to explore DAZ Studio for animation and rendering.
Since making the switch, Dartanbeck has grown to truly enjoy DAZ Studio. From the modular interface and dForce capabilities to nVidia Iray rendering, he appreciates the seamless experience of loading assets straight from the store and getting them animation-ready. DAZ Studio has, without question, captured his creative enthusiasm.
A special thanks goes to Team Linday for creating such an impactful tool! This hair remains the ideal solution for his Rosie character, regardless of the generation he’s working with. In this episode, Dartanbeck shares some of the unique techniques he’s developed to make this hair the most versatile, dynamic option he could imagine.
Below : dForce Wet Messy Bang Hair, Wet Style Curly Hair and Messy Bob Hair
Stonemason : The Urban Future Series
The Urban Future series (8 of them now!) by Stonemason is a highly acclaimed collection in the DAZ 3D store, known for its richly detailed, futuristic cityscapes that evoke a gritty, cyberpunk atmosphere. Each scene in the series is meticulously crafted, featuring towering skyscrapers, neon-lit alleys, industrial structures, and immersive street-level details that bring a dystopian world to life. Popular among artists and animators, these environments provide a dynamic setting for sci-fi, action, and urban-themed projects.
With modular designs that allow for customizable layouts, the Urban Future series offers versatility, making it easy to create expansive cityscapes or focused street scenes. Stonemason’s exceptional texturing and lighting bring a sense of realism, ideal for use with DAZ Studio’s Iray rendering engine. The series continues to be a go-to resource for those seeking to add a dramatic, futuristic edge to their work.
CyborgNinja
A new addition to the Daz 3D Published Artist lineup, we’ll dive into two connected interior kits by CyborgNinja.
These interior scenes make a great fit for our Urban Future exploration, offering the perfect retreat for those moments when the adventure moves indoors!
Animation Corner
Havanalibere’s Store offers versatile kits to add high-end motions to your DAZ 3D figures. Notably, the aniMate Catwalk Construction Kit for Genesis 8 and 8.1 Males includes Starts, Stops, Twists, Turns, and the handy “Walk In Place” option—great for simulating dForce hair. We’ll explore some of these kits in this episode.
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- Recording of this session with HD resolution.
- Bonus tutorial set 1 : Stonemason (1 hour 52 minutes)
- This community workshop focused on using Stonemason assets in Daz Studio, featuring discussions on favorite assets, personalization, converting 3DL to Iray, custom lighting, and unique camera angles. Attendees also explored virtual “walkarounds,” preset angles, and detailing techniques for Stonemason’s sets and accessories.
- Bonus tutorial set 2 : Second Skin : The Complete Guide to Geoshells
- This tutorial dives into the Geoshell feature in DAZ Studio, showing how to create second-skin layers for tattoos, clothing textures, and makeup, with no poke-through issues. Included are a PDF guide on makeup/glitter application and a shader for adding dirt and grunge effects. Four expert artists demonstrate various uses of Geoshells: Ken Kawashima covers Geoshell basics and dynamic bodysuits; Fain shows grunge effects; SpiritFoxy explores makeup and glitter; and Barbara Rohrer applies Geoshells to hybrid creatures and clothing customization.
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.
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