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The Complete Guide to DAZ Studio 4

You're reading from   The Complete Guide to DAZ Studio 4 Bring your 3D characters to life with DAZ Studio

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849694087
Length 348 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Paolo Ciccone Paolo Ciccone
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Preface 1. Quick Start – Our First 3D Scene FREE CHAPTER 2. Customizing Studio 3. Posing Figures 4. Creating New Characters with Morphs 5. Rendering 6. Finding and Installing New Content 7. Navigating the Studio Environment 8. Building a Full Scene 9. Lighting 10. Hyper-realism – the Reality Plugin 11. Creating Content 12. Animation A. Installing DAZ Studio Index

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Another tool available for animation is the aniMate plugin. aniMate takes a higher level approach to animation by providing blocks of premade animations that can be dropped into a specialized timeline. This timeline runs in parallel with the Studio timeline, but is dedicated to the handling of aniblocks, as the elements of aniMate are called.

Aniblocks apply a complex animation sequence to a character. For example, there are aniblocks that move a character form standing to sitting down. Other aniblocks provide running sequences, fighting moves, or runway walks.

Aniblocks can be placed one after the other on the timeline. They can be spliced, inverted, slowed down, and accelerated. The software comes with a few premade aniblocks and more can be bought at the DAZ store. Many aniblocks provide rather natural and convincing movements, and the software performs quite well.

The danger in using this kind of approach is that the movements of the figures can look canned. If we repeat the same...

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