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The Creative Cart : Predatron
June 15, 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 hosts Paul Bussey and Dartanbeck on “Creative Cart,” where we explore essential assets that can transform your digital art projects. 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 enrich 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 : Predatron
Journey Through 20 Years of 3D Magic with Predatron
Join us in celebrating Predatron, a household name in the DAZ 3D community. With a career spanning nearly two decades, Predatron has been a cornerstone of the DAZ store since 2004. His dedication and artistry have enriched the DAZ ecosystem with hundreds of high-quality products, captivating countless 3D artists.
Predatron’s journey began with a nudge from his wife Diane, already established at DAZ 3D, igniting his passion for 3D modeling. Merging iconic movie titles “Predator” and “Tron,” Predatron crafted a unique artist name reflecting his creativity and love for the fantastical.
A generalist with a penchant for grungy medieval styles, Predatron draws inspiration from a myriad of sources — from architecture and nature to Tolkien and artists like John Howe and Boris Vallejo. His creative process often skips traditional sketching, diving straight into 3DS Max or Blender.
Predatron’s work has evolved over the years, gaining confidence and refinement through experience. His creations, such as the beloved “Ye Olde Library,” blend meticulous detail with imaginative design. Despite his extensive experience, Predatron remains dedicated to updating his older products, ensuring they leverage the latest DAZ Studio advancements.
When he’s not crafting stunning 3D assets, he enjoys Cornwall’s coastal beauty, local cuisine, and working on his fantasy trilogy.
Join us in this exclusive focus into Predatron’s creative world, exploring highlights from his product range, and gain insights from his wealth of experience.

Highlighted Assets
- Troglodytes
- Goblins
- Angor (Beastmen)
- Droid
- Heroes: Redantom
- Demonecornuto
- Lorenzo and Loretta Bundle : LoREZ people
- LoREZ Animals bundle
- Giant Fantasy Spider
- Giant Fantasy Snake
During the session Dartanbeck will delve into a world of mythical creatures and heroes with highlights including the fearsome Troglodytes, mischievous Goblins, and the formidable Angor (Beastmen). He’ll look at some of his favourite Predatron environments.

Predatron LoREZ Products
We’ll also look at the super-useful LoREZ product series:-
Lorenzo LoREZ is a versatile bundle offering various ethnicity skin tones and a broad selection of clothing, alongside extensive morph options for shaping and customization. It provides an easy-to-use, low-resolution figure ideal for diverse character creation, from humans to creatures.
Loretta LoREZ mirrors Lorenzo’s features, supporting a wide range of shapes and skins while being resource-efficient, making them perfect for populating scenes without taxing system resources.
LoREZ Masked Hero enables easy creation of superheroes, with options for further customization. It’s compatible with Lorenzo, enhancing diversity for star ship crews or other character needs.
LoREZ Horse 2 is an upgraded low-resolution horse model with high detail and compatibility with existing animations, complemented by a textures add-on.
Predatron’s LoREZ Animals Bundle includes light-on-resources, versatile animal models like dogs, pigs, a crow, a rat, and a cat, each packed with morphs and textures to fit various needs in your scenes.
Fantasy Realms : Community Challenge
Using Predatron’s 3D assets, create a scene that captures the essence of fantasy — be it mystical forests, enchanted castles, or taking advantage of one of the many mythical or fantasy creatures by Predatron.
Share your masterpiece on our forum here.
Have you used any of Predatron’s assets in your scenes already?
If so -we’d also love to see your creativity with these – share your work during the webinar!
Let your imagination run wild and join the adventure!
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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