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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

Character creation with morphs

Hard to believe that the "cutie" shown in the following image is our old friend the Basic Female, but it really is the same figure. I created that lovely character using an additional product called Genesis Creature Creator Heads, which is sold at http://www.daz3d.com/shop/genesis-creature-cr eator-heads.

Character creation with morphs

Once that product is installed, Studio will provide a plethora of head morphs that can be dialed to create a vast set of unique characters. In the following steps, I will show you how easy it is to obtain the preceding figure.

Inside the monster factory

As usual, let's start with a new scene (File | New) and add the Basic Female figure. Click on the head to select it, and then click on the Camera: Frame tool to frame the head fully inside the frame. If you have the Genesis Creature Creator Heads product installed, you will then be able to see a series of interesting morphs in the Shaping tab. Look in the Editor subtab and inside the Head category...

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