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Recommendations for premium vendors of clothes, hair and figures

omvendtomvendt Posts: 14
edited August 19 in Product Suggestions

Hi, I have been playing around with Daz while recovering (long story). I have realized that product utility varies a lot between vendors. At the beginning I would buy the cheapest clothes or figures, but I realized that I would later end up spending a lot of time trying to make the products work. More expensive clothes would sometimes have features that would make my life easier and story telling more fun, e.g. a way to easily unzip a dress, taking off a pair of jeans, or show the garment hanging on a chair. For that I would be willing to pay more but I don't think there is a way to search for that on Daz Store. 
So, this brings me to the question, which is: 
Can you recommend some Nordstrom/BMW kind of creators who might charge more but who consistently have the best products. By best, I mean great (realistic) skin textures for the lifelike, high resolution models, comes with extras like "blushed cheeks" or "broken nose" or an older version of the same person.  For clothes, thoughtful extras, like ability to unzip, or let a strap slide down a shoulder. For hair, being able to change hairdo. E.g. if they sell a pony tail hairdo, then what would that look like with the hair down or if the hair is wet?
Thanks in advance.
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Eric

Post edited by Richard Haseltine on

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 107,857

    Moved to Product Suggestions as it is not a Daz Studio application topic.

  • MissLeahMissLeah Posts: 194

    I can give you a few PAs which I always rely upon for high-quality, versatile products.

    Clothing: Aeon Soul

    Accessories: Fabiana

    Hair: Outoftouch

    There are many others, but that should get you started.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 107,857

    I am hopeless at making lists, but Mada and Lutbel/Luthbellina also come immediately to mind

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 26,156
    edited August 19

    Mada is my number 1 for quality clothing, but they won't be cluttered with undress morphs, etc. Richard beat me to mentioning her.
    Strangefate/Roguey are less versatile perhaps, but top quality modeling and texturing. (edit: by less versatile, I mean more of a niche genre than everyday items. The have lots of morphs and settings, so they are versatile in that regard.)

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  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 5,235

    https://www.daz3d.com/esha - normal clothing and jewerly

    https://www.daz3d.com/martinjfrost - incredible foliage

    https://www.daz3d.com/predatron - a little bit of everything, and everything wonderful

    https://www.daz3d.com/howiefarkes - the creator of UltraScenery Landscape System and UltraSceneryTwo. Be careful, he also creates products for Carrara.

    https://www.daz3d.com/censored - started with props, has now expanded to characters for FilaToon. All excellent.

    https://www.daz3d.com/stonemason - environments, he is the master of them.

    https://www.daz3d.com/sloshwerks - while he is gone, his store is open and his work is excellent and stands the test of time.

    https://www.daz3d.com/the-antfarm - unique items, many in a series and with a wicked sense of humor.

    https://www.daz3d.com/alessandroam - animals, real or imagined. Domestic or wild.

    Are you mostly interested in renders of characters? Do you want realistic environments or sets for photo shoots? Do you want more sexy clothes or a mix of realistic, average clothes, some realistic historic, science fiction, or some fantasy? Different PAs have different specialties. 

    The PAs I listed are only a few I love and rely on. They are not all of them. I would go to the listing of PAs and become familiar with them. Their content, do you like it or not, is it something others talked about in the forums? What is their speciality? I had to stop listing, I have so many I consider immediate purchases on day one due to quality and they fit my interests.

    If you are new to DAZ, I recommend signing up for the DAZ-Deals Browser Add-On which can help save you money. When you look at a promo with it, you can see forum posts where people may have posted about that item, good or bad, or just problems on the day of the sale, or links to posts like this where someone asked for recommendations. That is invaluable. Also you can see price history. Well advertised price, but if someone is using their tokens, DAZ coupons if they are a DAZ+ member or Premiere member, they may have bought the item at a deeper discount.

    Mary

  • GordigGordig Posts: 10,597
    edited August 20

    For characters, it depends on what you like. For pretty ladies, BlueJaunte and Mousso are among the best, Kooki99 is great for everyperson-type characters, and Spows does highly-detailed characters that are often of underrepresented demographics and occasionally verge into the grotesque. VirtualWorld makes very realistic characters as well as morph packs for certain types, like older men and East Asian women. If you're more interested in men, especially heavily tatted men, you might want to take a look at Darwins Mishap(s). I also highly recommend Redz Studio (also more male-focused), whose Small World morphs make the uncanny Caryn and Tobyn useable as babies, and makes some great hairs to boot.

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  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 7,073
    Linday for hair and versatile clothing with wet or dry versions. Their props (look at the swimming pool in particular) are superb and they share their render settings too. Regards, Richard.
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