As long as I am dabbling in 3DGraphics I have had a love&hate relationship with Daz. Of course I started with DazStudio way back because the software is for free. I was such a newbie and mostly curious so before I wanted to spend a lot of money in this new hobby I started, I relied on freebies mostly.
DazStudio is software that can be downloaded for free, after all these years it still is. There is still a very basic amount of content to get one started but when you look around you can find enough good quality free available content to create some nice Artwork and learn to create 3DArt.
As a lot of others I started with DazStudio and allthough the software itself is very good and has developed really well over the years, I just couldn’t get along with the UI – User Interface. That “sphere” and I just couldn’t get along.
So I downloaded a trial-version of Poser and decided to take a chance. I bought Poser 6, or was it Poser 7….hmmm,…..anyway I’m on Poser version 12-13 now.
All the while I never really gave up on DazStudio, kept downloading the latest versions but didn’t really give it a serious effort untill they included dForce.
The Cloth-Room was the thing in Poser I can’t do without, dynamics in clothing to make them drape as natural as possible when rendering an image.
Now with the Annual-Christmas Advent and Sale at Renderosity and DazStudio I was able to buy some really nice items for DazStudio and I started to play around by first creating a nice character-mix with Generation8 Female as base.
I had allready purchased BuggaBoo by LadyLittlefox so I started to mix in some more different morphs. Personally, besides that DazStudio now has dForce, the ability to mix characters for a base-figure into one of your own, is a great pro that I really like.
So I have started, or better said, restarted my relationship with DazStudio and decided to begin by concentrating on G8Female first. Mix and match my own personal favorite morphs and materials of various characters made for G8Female.
Shop a little with these sales at Renderosity and Daz for G8Female and play around a bit.
And since there are plenty of fashion-diva’s around, people trying to be as realistic as possible, I prefere to look for a more “toonish” character. A bit more playfull, somewhere in between a teen and BuggaBoo…..
What do you think?
Greetz,
Pommerlis
Pommerlis 
She so cute! I prefer the characters to be not anime-like so much.
I wish Poser would be more integrated with Blender and add the new Cloth Room that could handle cloth groups like Blender. That will require more PC specs, though…
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I still have to start with Blender, do the Donut-tutorial 😅
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