Digital Art Zone

Yet another newbie question:  Is there a workflow to use Daz figures in After Effects?  It would be easy enough to export rendered animation and use them as 2d layers in AE, but I was wondering if anyone imports the 3d models into AE to take advantage of the better lighting controls.  What export and import formats would be used?

anybody got an answer for this question yet?

You can export the figure as an object or collada from Daz.  You have to bring it into Photoshop 3d extended first then save it as a psd.  You can then import it into AE.  There are all kinds of tutorials about this on Youtube.  The few I looked at were just showing how to bring in the object as an unmoveable, pre-posed, static object.  You can’t animate the body parts in AE (that I know of).  I tried importing V4 this way and got her into AE just fine but, of course, she is just stuck in the pose I imported her in.  You can search deeper into this subject on Youtube.  I don’t want to go any deeper into this because I just import composited animations and don’t need the actual 3d models in there.  Hope this helps.