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3D-Art Contest Winners ~ July 2015
Wow! Some super duper awesome entries in July so you guys totally rock! The judges had a very difficult time picking just six, and there was a lot of griping and banging fists. In the end, everybody...
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Water Shader Tutorial for Daz Studio Iray
There are three types of water shaders that come with Daz Studio Iray – water, water dispersive, and water thin. I started learning about Iray water shaders by creating a very simple scene – just a...
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3D-Art Contest Winners ~ August 2015
Thank you all for participating in August and congratulations to all the winners of the August Vendor Awesomeness Contest!September is Published Artist month at DAZ3D, so we will be celebrating the...
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How to Get Wet Skin in Iray
After seeing Dave’s wonderful wet skin image on the Daz Gallery, I was inspired to try creating a wet skin render in Daz Studio Iray.Creating wet skin involves three key steps- 1. Making the...
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3D-Art Contest Winners ~ September 2015
Some super great entries this time!September was Premier Artist Festival Month at Daz3D!! In celebration of PA month, we doubled the number of vendors in the September 2015 contest, as well as doubled...
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Top 6 Fantasy Art Environments for Daz Studio
I mainly do figure-based fantasy art, where the humans, animals, and creatures are the main focus of the piece. However, the environment is still important because it needs to complement and support...
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An Introduction to Daz Studio Octane
This article and all of the images within were created by the very talented Brian Sains. Copyright © Brian Sains. Check out his gallery here. Why Octane?Why Octane?I started using Daz just under a year...
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3D-Art Contest Winners ~ April 2016
Wow! March Madness was just crazy good this year. There were a bunch of great items that I really loved and some terrific deals. We are also beginning to see a bunch of RDNA items appear in the DAZ...
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How to Create Realistic Skin in Daz Studio Octane
This article and all of the images within were created by the very talented Brian Sains. Copyright © Brian Sains. Check out his gallery here. We will need a working version of the Daz Octane plugin...
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Past Patreon Rewards
Evergreen Tier 4+ Patron FreebiesMy Daz Studio Iray light rig and render settingsShiba Glow + Orton EffectScene & PSD Files for Iray Wet Skin TutorialScene & PSD Files for Iray Lighting...
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How to Set-Up Camera, Lights, & Displacement in Daz Studio Octane
This article and all of the images within were created by the very talented Brian Sains. Copyright © Brian Sains. Check out his gallery here. What I want to achieve here is to give you the ability to...
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3D-Art Contest Winners ~ May 2016
My favorite April item has got to be Mei Lin 7. Luckily, March Madness was extended, so we could get her packages at a pretty good price. I don’t have her HD add-on yet, but I am definitely going to...
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Advanced Skin Material Settings for Daz Studio Octane
This article and all of the images within were created by the very talented Brian Sains. Copyright © Brian Sains. Check out his gallery here. Sub-surface scattering (SSS)In the introduction to this...
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3D-Art Contest Winners ~ June 2016
How time flies! We started this contest a year ago, and we are so happy with the wonderful entries we get every month. Thank you all for joining in, visiting our contest pages, and sharing your...
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August 2016 3D-Object Freebie
We are giving out our first 3D-object freebie, which is a cool side head-piece (shown below). In the image, I combined the original textures of the head-piece with the wonderful Bone and Fantasy Scale...
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3D-Art Contest Winners ~ July 2016
June was a pretty quiet month on Daz-land. Perhaps the most significant was the release of Rune 7 and Ivan 7, which are both interesting characters with fantastic looking skin.In a recent newsletter,...
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Daz Studio Octane Postwork Tutorial
This article and all of the images within were created by the very talented Brian Sains. Copyright © Brian Sains. Check out his gallery here. In my final tutorial of this series, I will cover the...
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3D-Art Contest Winners ~ August 2016
There were some great July sales in Daz-land. I know things are going to be bad when I use up both my PC-club coupons on the first week of the month. Three highlight releases for me were –Kenji 7 – I...
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Deviant Art Q&A with Becarra
You have just put the finishing touches on your latest Daz Studio masterpiece, now what?! How do you connect with other like-minded people? How do you get viewers, input, and followers?One great place...
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How I Combine Daz Studio Lights in Photoshop
In the tutorial How I Light My Iray Scene, I describe the common lights that I use in Daz Studio Iray. I render each light into a separate layer and then combine those lights in Photoshop.Here, I...
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