Tarot cards are an ancient deck of cards that can be used for divination. They are beautifully illustrated and have intriguing titles full of meaning. The Magician, Death, The Lovers, The Hanged Man, and The Fool are only some of the most iconic Tarot cards. 

The most well known Tarot deck is the Rider-Waite deck, first published in 1909 and illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith. Click here to see all the cards of this Tarot deck: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rider–Waite_Tarot

But beyond the Rider-Waite deck there are so many more Tarot decks, both ancient and brand new. There's no reason why we in the DAZ community can't render up our own Tarot deck!

For the September 2026 Freebie Challenge, pick a Tarot card that you feel drawn to, then render your own interpretation of that card. Your version can hew close to the original, or it can be a completely different interpretation of the same theme.

I think it would be neat if the format of your render is vertical, like a real Tarot card! But I won't be a stickler about it.

I foresee great riches (bestowed, as always, by Kindred Arts) for those who render the most beautiful entries! I can't wait to see what everybody comes up with!

Some useful links for the Contest

The KindredArts Free Resource Repo Here are the KindredsArt freebies and a rich list of sites that host freebies

Free 3D Models Link to DAZ's bi-weekly freebies

Limited Time Freebies Discussion Thread A thread under the Commons section of the forum, where DAZ's biweekly freebies are announced and, recently, even listed. It's useful for remembering which freebies were added and when.

The rules of the contest are:

• Your entry must be a new render, especially made for this challenge.

• Your entry must follow the DAZ TOS.

• You may enter a maximum of 4 entries.

• A minimum of five (5) Freebies must be included in your image

• All Daz Bi-Weekly Freebies are allowed throughout the entire month in which they are free, as well as the following month (for a total of 2 months).

• You may use a maximum of 5 paid items.

• Base figures (Genesis 9, Genesis 8, etc.) as well as their basic morph packs may be used as needed. They do not count as either paid items or freebies.

• DAZ Studio, Poser, Bryce, Carrara, Hexagon, and Blender are allowed.

• DAZ AI Studio is not allowed. The use of image generating AI technology (midjourney, stable diffusion, etc.) is not allowed in any form.

• Postwork is allowed. You must also include the raw render (before postwork) of your entry.

• For a more detailed version of the rules see the PDF attached to this post; or ask your question in this thread, we're always happy to clarify!

• Let's have fun and be creative with all the amazing resources that are available for free!

This contest ends on September 30st 2026.

Post your images and freebie links in this thread for link verification.
Once the links are verified, you can post your image and links in Entries Thread for judging.

First Place: $15 store credit from KindredArts
Second Place: $10 store credit from KindredArts
Third Place: $5 store credit from KindredArts

Past Freebie Contests:

January 2022 - Around and around and around...

February 2022 - Mysteries of the heart

March 2022- Luck Of The Draw

April 2022 - New Beginnings

May 2022 - Cozy Corner

June/July 2022 - The Secret Life Of...

August 2022- Sniff, sniff... what's that smell?

September 2022-Cars Cars and More Cars

October 2022 - Horror Movies

November 2022 - Thieves, Robbers, and Fraudsters all around!

December 2022 - The Night is Darkest...

January 2023 Speed Demons and Slowpokes

February 2023- I See Red

March / April 2023 Magical

May 2023 - Sweet Music

June/July 2023  Holes, Gaps, Caves, Tunnels

August 2023 Fabulous Pink

September 2023 Gardening

October 2023 Hallowed Night

November 2023 Wobble, jiggle, sway, and shake

December 2023 / January 2024 Driving Home For...

February 2024 The Glow Up

March 2024 Power Source

April/Mai 2024 Soft as Plush, Smooth as Silk

June 2024 An Octopus' Garden

July/August 2024 Take A Break

September 2024 Fake Smiles and Real Joy

October 2024 "Monster Mash '24!" 

November 2024 - Dreams

December 2024 - A Curious Christmas

January 2025 - Thank you, Saphirewild!

February 2025 - My Hallowed Valentine

March 2025 - Pride, Prejudice and other Shenanigans

April 2025 - The Little Ball of Calm

May 2025 - To Be Beautiful

June 2025 - Summer and Piracy

July 2025 - Design a Book Cover

August 2025 - Pure Cinema

September 2025 - Holiday Memories

October 2025 - Monster Mash!

November 2025 - The Winter Witch

December 2025 - Christmas!

January 2026 - When One Door Closes, Another Opens

February 2026 - Stronger Than You Think

March 2026 - The big blue

April 2026 - Free for All

May 2026 - Lies and Truth

June 2026 - Invasion

July 2026 - Summer Holidays

August 2026 - Plastique Fantastique

Khoe said:

my next Carrara Image is redy. The aircraft and the house were created using Tripo. The rest was produced in Carrara. Some post-processing was done after rendering; colors and contrast were slightly enhanced.
 

Impressive image.  I have never used AI like Tripo, but it seems to give some good options.

my next Carrara Image is redy. The aircraft and the house were created using Tripo. The rest was produced in Carrara. Some post-processing was done after rendering; colors and contrast were slightly enhanced.

I quickly modelled a shape in Carrara as per the image you posted and put the OBJ file in the zip for you if it's any good.

You can just use the image you have above to texture it and add some bump... or do nothing at all with it but experiment 

if you had Carrara I could help you out...

I modelled the spudman yesterday arvo 

Springtime in Carrara 

Today is the 1st Day of Spring downunder

can you point me to any documentation on Blendshapes to Bones? I haven't been able to find any mention of it about Blender.

 

 I wish I could but I haven't found it since either and it seems I didn't keep the zip

I don't use Blender much in the way most do

I use it daily as my video editor believe it or not but modelling and rendering, no

prefer Carrara

as for Unreal

set it up as a game and cook it

with all that involves, and it involves quite a bit

it can't be too hard as I have done it, but more than I can explan

but there is a lot of documantation and tutorials

there is a paid UV export addon for DAZ studio (probably not 6 but apparently that does it natively)

https://www.daz3d.com/uv-tailor

disclaimer, I don't own it, I use Carrara or Ultimate Unwrap3D because those are my modelling UV mapping softwares of choice

also even if you hide vertices, the points still export

I see them all on hidden figures in Carrara's vertex room for example exporting fitted draped clothing to create morphs, doesn't seem to prevent morphloader from accepting them though as it only reads faces (ie don't get the vertex order doesn't match dialogue)

but DAZ will set the bounding box to include the invisible dotty figure if it's reimported as an obj

oh the nostalgia reading this thread 

we actually expected DAZ to make stuff work in Carrara back then

I should really dig my Hivewire figures out again

thanks for the work and the link therixx, 

If someone happens to be still interested after all this time, I moved my tutorial here:
https://www.riccardocorso.it/text/tut-cgi-dawn-carrara-en.php

some webboid love in Carrara....

I wishlisted it for now and already spent money I really cannot spare these past few days, but am used to breaking up sets, I do it quite a lot using the geometry editor or external software like Carrara

I suspect these are in fact game assets converted for DAZ studio, Polish like a few other PAs is a brokerage and other modellers sell their stuff to DAZ through them including Game Devs and likely are demo scenes they made exported as a solid obj as I often did Unreal Assets in the past

I now use FBX but that while giving separate objects doesn't export any textures so is a lot of work they probably don't want to do

when I say demos, the sets themselves might not even exist as a product, elsewhere, more showcases for a modellers work never meant for anything but renders

I know the Dekadon sets fall somewhat in that category, the showcase scenes are meant as just that, to show off all the assets in the set

I have most of the Polish versions in the original Dekadon Unreal format

wow I missed that one. almost tempted to buy it today because 60% off it's very decent but this month is a bit of a pinch for me

not for D|S6 but Carrara!
but since I can and do manually do it, not urgent 

I have in fact manually resaved many over the years

13 year anniversary of when DAZ last did any development on Carrara a couple weeks ago, it's not as if I haven't had lots of time 

Genesis, Daz Dragon & ants by K Gilliland

an old Carrara scene redone

ProPose said:

How time flies, when having fun....in Carrara

So True!!! The box of goodies that just Keeps On Giving - even long after its Masters deserted it!

Rock On Forever Carrara!!!

It's been that long?  How time flies, when having fun....in Carrara

Torquinox said:

Thanks to @Diomede & @Dartanbeck. I guess there's no array tool? It's probably unfair for me to poke at that. I know how long it's been since Carrara was updated.

How did I discover DAZ?

Hmmm..., in my spare time at work I'd been creating wire frame 3D objects & animation on two government mini-computers with 16KB of core memory and Tektronix vector graphic displays back in the mid '70s in the Launch Control Center at the Kennedy Space Center, but never thought I'd have a computer at home that could do it.  Twenty years later (late '90s) I finally broke down and bought a PC for home (other than the pathetic HP Win95 laptop forced on me by the company I worked for at the time).  My spiffy new home desktop was another HP (I was working for a UNIX oriented, HP "big iron", consulting company at the time) and my new machine had the new Win98 system on it. Wheee...!  I used it to play Myst, and that got me interested again in 3D work because now the "hidden line problem" had been long solved and possible on smaller computers.  At that time around the Washington DC area it was common that a few times a year there would be big gatherings of software & hardware vendors displaying old & new products in a flea market environment, sometimes in a tent.  At one of these events I found an early version of Poser.  I upgraded though Poser a couple of times but about Poser5 I attended one of those sales events and found a copy of RayDream Studio for $100 and started playing with that.  That product eventually turned into Carrara (later picked up by DAZ).  Meanwhile I started hearing about models available from DAZ that would work in Poser around 2001 or so.  My earliest purchases from DAZ were Michael2 and the Barbarian gear for him.  But now I can't even find either one them in DAZ's Product Library list identifying all the things I'd bought.  I started collecting DAZ's models, and then DAZ started marketing (for free) its own 3D modeling software DAZ Studio.  I collected the early alpha and beta versions before version 1.0 (still have them).  And I've collected every version since then.  I don't do much modeling anymore.  I got what I wanted out of it, but it was fun along the way and I have a large but not obsessive library of models up through Michael8 and various landscapes, buildings, & miscellaneous objects.

thanks for reminding me of it, I own it, forgot about it and never rendered it

not even loaded it to see if I can animate it

update, pretty meh honestly 

3 set morph positions for the cars, not rigged

I might be able to cut it up at best in Carrara and use motion paths and tracking 

is Studio? still renders and AI animation at best