3d art

Character
Building up the portrait
Arranging the scene in DAZ Studio
a
02 Choose your character and
the textures
Now you have to pick a character and a texture from your
library. Proceed as the following: Poses>(choose the
character you want) Tosca>Farissa>Poser
MATS>2BrowsBrown. For changing the eye texture, go to
Poses>Tosca>Farissa>Poser MATS>3Eyes b.
01 Figure loading and morphing
The first step is to open DAZ Studio and load Victoria 4. Next you have to load the morphs
of the figure. For this, we used the Poser library, which you can find in DAZ Studio. When you
install DAZ Studio, search for all the compatible folders and it should appear in the content
column. To use the Poser library, go to Figures>DAZ-People>Victoria 4.2. Then go to
Poses>DAZ-Victoria 4>Morph Injections>INJ Morphs++ V4 A.
A Load the figure and the
morphs into DAZ Studio
b Choose the character and
the textures of the figure
c Modify the character of
the figure
d Dress the model and add
hair and jewellery
Problems and solutions
C
To be able to work with DAZ Studio, you have
to start by equipping the library with objects
and textures. The figures get loaded morphs
and, from that point, you can alter the face
and body. If you have Poser, you can use its
library within DAZ Studio, which is what we
did for this piece of work.
The library contains figures (people,
clothes, hair, etc) as well as poses and
textures and lighting scenarios, which can
be adapted to the particular scene. The main
job is nevertheless the editing of the
rendered picture in Photoshop. Because
we’re not only trying to make the image as
03 Modify the
character
The next step is to remodel
the face. For this, go to the
scene and choose the
figure’s head by opening the
folder until the head appears
(or select by clicking on the
face). Zoom in on the model.
In the Parameters palette,
it’s possible to modify
particular features for
expressions and visemes
(facial cues which represent
speech sounds) c.
detailed as possible but also give it a touch of
fantasy, we use a graphics tablet which
enables us to work in great detail. In
addition, we use Photoshop’s extensive tools
such as colour adjustment, the amendment
of contrast and posterisation, layer options,
and the different brushes and filters.
Of special importance is to work with
transparent layers. It is worth noting that
this tutorial refers to the particular objects,
textures or Photoshop plug-ins within our
library, so you’ll have to use similar items
from your own libraries and a little intuition
to complete this exercise.
B
04 Add clothing, hair and jewellery
Next you can choose hair, clothing and accessories from the
library and adjust to the figure. For the dress, follow:
Figures>V4 Morphing Clothes>Fantasy Dress>Fit to
blMilWom_v4b, 2. For the hair: Figures>AprilAoife>Aoife>
Victoria4>Fit to blMilWom_v4b, 3. For the jewellery:
Figures>DAZ’s Victoria Clothing>V4_FantasyCollarBig>Fit
to blMilWom_v4b, 4. And finally, for the crown and earrings
(first choose the figure’s head), then go to:
Props>Chex>Psyche Jewels>Crown and Earring L d.
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