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The Creative Cart
March 9, 2024 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm GMT
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 us as hosts Paul Bussey and Dartanbeck showcase chosen assets that can serve as your building blocks for breathtaking digital art.
“Creative Cart” will provide you with a valuable resource for discovering tools that can bring your artistic ideas into reality. Through themed episodes, we’ll spotlight various genres and assets—be it characters, shaders, environments, scripts, clothing or props—ensuring every creator finds something that resonates with their personal artistic journey.
it’s also about interaction where we include a community section where you can share your favourite finds, and add to the conversation about how these assets have shaped your own creations; we’d love to get your insights and recommendations on assets that have made a difference to your artwork!
Highlighted Vendor : Ravnheart
With 119 products in their store, Ravnheart has been a longstanding popular vendor in the DAZ 3D community. Although with a definite slant towards science fiction, their catalogue has a broad spectrum of 3D assets, from thematic environmental sets to detailed character outfits. In this session Dartanbeck will spotlight the Marcoor spacecraft series.
Highlighted Assets
- Ravnheart’s Marcoor sci-fi asset series
– Marcoor ship
– Corridors
– Lifts
– Medical bay
– Control room
– Aged add on textures
- DzFire’s Cyborg Generation 8
- Reisormocap : Sci-fi moves Genesis volumes 1-3
The Animation Corner
We’re going to dive into a wonderful legacy series of aniBlock products – Sci Fi Moves, by Reisormocap!
We’ll include instructions on several methods of how to get these incredible motions onto the figure generation of your choice.
The Community Corner
As part of our Creative Cart event, we’d love to challenge you to utilize our handpicked selection of FREE models from the DAZ store, including:-
- The Tavern Dining Hall Poses (G2) by blondie9999
- The Gothika Mirror by Arki
- The Hydra by MallenLane
- The regal Props Pack – Fantasy Banquet Set by Traveler
- Iray Nature Shaders: Bark by Martin J Frost
- The ancient Egyptian Obelisk by Enterables
Create a scene that weaves these elements into a story only you can tell. Whether it’s a fantasy feast or a historical reimagining, show us how these assets can come to life in your hands. Share your creations during our Creative Cart event and inspire fellow artists by showcasing your unique vision.
Let’s embark on this creative adventure together and explore the endless possibilities that DAZ 3D brings to our fingertips!
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Bonus video content : The DAZ 3D Shopping Survival Guide by Drew Spence (GriffinAvid) and includes the DAZ Deals plugin author. (2 hours 20 minutes)
Drew Spence is a store survival expert after utilising hundreds of DAZ assets for illustrating his graphic novels and he presents a deep dive survival guide. This presentation included Special guest artist Overdrawn who created the DAZ Deals browser add on (a super useful shopping aid).
Content includes : Setting Up DAZ Studio : Account Management : Platinum Club : Sales : Gift cards : Managing your library : understanding purchases/product types : Finding stuff (part 2) : 3rd party purchases : The DAZ Deals Browser Addon
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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