Think, Draw, Art!

for art lovers

  • Home
  • Gallery
  • Contact
  • Recent Articles
  • Article Categories
    • Daz Studio
    • 3D Art
    • 2D Art
    • Contest

Think, Draw, Art – Front Page

Featured Articles

Shiba 3D-Art Contest

Come join this fun 3D-art contest. It is easy to join, there are few restrictions, and we are giving away a bunch of Daz3D gift certificates for prizes. You can enter as many times as you like, and both old or new 3D-renders are welcome.

Poser, Daz Studio, Carrara - Which One Should I Use?

For rendering 3D-pictures and figures we can use Poser, Daz Studio, or Carrara. Poser is the oldest and most mature. However, Daz Studio has many features and new add-ons that are not available on Poser. In addition, it is free. Carrara has some great environment effects and some cool tools such as vertex editing. We consider which one to use for our computer generated pictures.

Daz Studio Iray Tutorial for Beginners

This tutorial describes how I create a simple scene, from start to finish, for the Daz Studio Iray renderer. In particular, I discuss how to assign Iray materials, and how to create simple but realistic lighting in Iray with an image based light (IBL).

Tips and Tricks for Daz Studio Beginners

I started really using Daz Studio a few months ago and wanted to put down some of the most useful functions that I discovered. These are the things that may not be readily apparent (especially to a beginner), but were extremely useful for creating great renders. Following, I will list a set of common issues I encountered, and then discuss useful tips and tricks that I found within Daz Studio, to [...]

How I Light My Daz Studio Iray Scenes

I describe the three main classes of lights that I use in my Daz Studio Iray scenes. These include an image based light, three mesh lights, and a volumetric light.

Galleries

Featured Images
Most Popular
Animals/Creatures
My Favorites

Recent Art Articles

3D-Art Contest Winners ~ March 2018

March 2018 Shiba 3d-art contest winners announced! Another wonderful month of images.

Cyborg Girl Fantasy Art and Blending Effects in Photoshop

In this cyborg girl fantasy art tutorial, I use Photoshop blending mode to get different color effects in my image. Original scene created in Daz Studio and rendered in Daz Studio Iray.

How to Save a Daz Studio dForce Frame as a Morph

This tutorial describes how we can save a Daz Studio dForce frame as a morph. Once we have it saved, we can reuse it whenever we want, without having to rerun the dynamic cloth simulation. We can also combine it with other morphs.

3D-Art Contest Winners ~ February 2018

February 2018 Shiba 3d-art contest winners announced! Check out Februarys lovely contest entries.

3D-Art Contest Winners ~ January 2018

January 2018 Shiba 3d-art contest winners announced! Check out the wonderful January contest entries.

Why Is There Noise in My Daz Studio Iray Render and How to Remove It

One very common question I get about Daz Studio Iray is why is there so much noise in my Iray render and what can I do to remove it? This tutorial explores the source of noise in our Iray images, what type of scenes produce more noise, and how we can reduce this noise without losing image quality.

3D-Art Contest Winners ~ December 2017

Shiba 3d-art contest winners for December 2017. Come see the awesome entries and winners!

Daz Studio Dynamic Cloth (dForce) Tutorial for Beginners

A beginners tutorial on Daz Studios new dynamic cloth system - dForce. In this tutorial, I apply dForce to two pieces of V4 clothing, so that it drapes over a Genesis 8 Female figure. With dForce, I can not only use Poser dynamic dresses on Genesis figures, but also older V4 dresses that did not autofit well on Genesis.

Recent Comments

  • Knight in armor shooting a steampunk gun at a dragon. Night scene.Shiba 3D-Art Contest
    • Yaz
      - I did it!An here it is.. https://www.daz3d.com/gallery/#images/565626/ Hope you kinda like it!Had ...
  • Qualifying item used - Sci-Fi Pilot Outfit for G8F3D-Art Contest Winners ~ March 2018
    • Divone
      - Congratulations everyone!
    • dawnblade
      - Congratulations to All! Fantastic artwork!
    • BavarianR
      - Congrats to all and thank you very much!
    • Stalest
      - Thanks for the selection, it totally shocked me! And congrats to the other winners and honorable men ...
    • Vicki Leversedge (Saidge)
      - thank you ever so much!!! the artwork this month (as with every month ;)) was just amazing!! congratulations ...
    • klooless
      - Congrats to all!
  • Good angel with white feathered wings at the bottom, chained to dark angel with tribal black wings on top.Tips and Tricks for Daz Studio Beginners
    • themidget
      - This is a really useful article. Thank you for putting it together!

Copyright © 2018 · Genesis Skins by ShibaShake · Terms of Service · Privacy Policy ·