Daz Studio - digital posing and modelling

Ok, I know this is not directly related to photography. But nevertheless, I think, many a digital photographer might be interested in this.

Daz Studio is a FREE program that allows the manipulation and rendering of virtual models. It can render pretty realistic 3D humans.

Strange Beauty
by: GreyPixel

This program is both available for Mac and Windows user. Unfortunately, there isn’t a Linux version, which is quite a pity.

This program sure looks very interesting. However, from my honest opinion, it does require a powerful computer to run smoothly. On my low-end laptop it runs painfully slow. Also, I find the manipulation of the model is not intuitive and interactive. For a new user like me, I had a hard time finding ways to do simple thing such as changing poses.

I had an earlier version of Poser. Between the 2 programs, I find Poser is generally easier to work with.

But, hey, what do you expect, it is afterall free. At least, the base program is. You can enhance its usefulness by purchasing additional plugins and 3D humans.

Daz Studio can be downloaded from www.daz3d.com.

Have fun

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