#daz3d studio

Another Eden Club inspired something

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So, I've been dealing with burnout by messing around in Daz3D a lot, and made Valefar to the best of its ability, which turns out is pretty advanced. It's basically a glorified character creator with a moderate learning curve, and I had to do a lot of touching up in CSP since the clothing system is very hit or miss. The spots and scars I also added myself by editing the base textures and will probably see a revamp at some point since I'm not that happy with the one over his eye. Unfortunately, I'm not well versed enough in 3D programming wizardry to figure out how to seamlessly edit over... well, seams. Yet, anyway. And I tried a dozen different ways to do something more efficient and more accurate than my initial attempt, but turns out what I did actually *was* the simplest. lol

Other features I intend on doing myself, such as his branding tattoos, horns, tail, paws, and maybe hair if I'm feeling brave. Since his is technically longer and usually tied back with a ribbon. All of that sounds very simple but then you gotta remember that it must be done in Blender and I die a little inside. Because nothing is ever simple in Blender. Anyway.

The cool thing about Daz is that you can create scenes and such and the lighting system is very good and it's fairly easy to light a scene and take pictures decently well within a few minutes. I have yet to perfect the art so all I have to show are WIPs and "test" renders.

The first two here were from a much earlier version of him before I figured out how to bend the horns to my liking as well as the lower half of his face. The last one was also kind of an experiment. The clipping is an unfortunate feature that I don't think can be easily fixed from what I know. The clothing layering system is rather... unintuitive. But thankfully, I have the skills to just edit whatever most bugs me in CSP. lol

Also I like making his eyes do the thing.