I Want to Make a Daz3D Zine
Greybro
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Lately, I've become very interested in so called, "Zines." At first they were a fun way to promote one of my live bands, then I started branching into ...."My Feelings." I began to express thoughts few people might be able to relate to like the example below. Brad was a bandmate I lost to the big S. It's been over a year now and there's still a lot to unpack on that I'm afraid.
Recently, I dug through my collection of DS Creative PDFs and was once again blown away by the emotions they stirred up in me. DAZ is more than a passing interest to me. I’ve been a customer, a fan, eventually a PA, and an active community member since the early 2000s.
It occurs to me that, with the advent of AI, things have really changed. I have lots of—well, for lack of a better word—“feelings” about the community’s future.
While I cannot express myself through something as momentous as DS Creative, I could potentially create a little zine about those feelings. It would be a tangible thing to hold in my hands, look through, and eventually store in a drawer somewhere for future review. If anyone in the community cared to see it, I could easily mail them a copy.
Yesterday, I hand-drew page 01 on my iPad. The vision would be to recreate the artwork for each page using DAZ Studio, of course. The entire thing would run either 16 pages, or eight pages with one large illustration on the inside. The aim would be to highlight the ups and downs—and especially the funny moments—I’ve encountered during my time as a community member here.
Surely all of that could fit into eight to sixteen pages.
I’ll share some of the sketches and concepts here.
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The hand-drawn image for page 01 is to be interpreted as a Daz Studio render for page 1
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From the hand drawn image above to this one, which resulted from feeding my sketch into ChatGPT. Almost ready to build my Daz Scene for page 01.
Now I need to identify products in the store to build this scene from. You're input is welcome especially if you include store links to the products. A home interior, a table a chair. A purple male dress shirt, a laptop. A picture in a frame. What else?
The table and chairs are established from the Magic Grand Library
The laptop is established from Laptop and Table Set with the bonus of being able to start from a pre-built pose from Laptop Poses for Genesis 3
Are you trying to match the the AI pics? I see you have an octopus theme going on in the background stuff (and I don't have any specific suggestions for it).
https://www.daz3d.com/living-room-interior is a room, and has a few framed pictures (2 wildlife, and one of out of focus lights)
Living Room Interior is a good Option. I have looked at several to get the right homey feel.
Yes. The Octopus theme is a little nod to my band "The Great Octopus Band," (streaming on all platforms by the way.) that part is completely optional however. The sketch is the concept, Ai fleshes out perspectives and makes it easier to look at then, I build the scene in Daz Studio and manage my character likenesses with Facegen. At least that is the general idea.
If you need blinds, SquarePeg3D is offering free ones on Renderhub (account needed) or Patreon (no account needed but you'll have a NSFW warning but the blinds themselves are perfectly safe).
Thanks. I would like to use blinds. I'll grab those.
You didn't mention if you needed a Lava Lamp
https://www.daz3d.com/z-retro-vibes-props-and-poses
I don't own this but I am sure I have one but cannot find it, found that trying to look
any shirt can be a purple shirt, dye a white one with the diffuse
any cthuloid creature can be rendered to put in a frame
if you don't want to up that expenditure figure that is
I love all the Zeddicuss stuff and am about to pickup a conversational pose pack for this very scene.
Something funny AI spit out while I was working on building this scene in Studio.
The scene is coming together now.
The scene is coming together now.
The scene is coming together now.
Working on the poses a bit more now.
This one speaks to people. Brace yourselves.
:)
Well, dang, just when I thought nothing could excite me about refocusing on Daz Studio. Then I met AIRE.
It's a comic convention to read the bubbles left-to-right and top-to-bottom. So if she's saying "Holy Shiitake" in response to your Daz expenditure, you need to arrange the scene so that her speech bubble goes below and/or to the right of yours.
More comic tips here: https://blambot.com/en-gb/pages/lettering-tips and here https://blambot.com/en-gb/pages/comic-book-grammar-tradition
Blambot.com is the letter's resource all folks sticking text in text bubbles should read/skim through. Goldmine of data there.
If you don't plan the bubble layout before the render (even if you do the lettering post render) you will spend far too much time on it. It's taken me forever to avoid zooming in too much or to learn that putting the figures wider of the 1/3 rule grid helps avoid putting the bubbles "behind" the speakers. And so on.