DAZ3D March Madness for March 21, 2022
Today’s promo is a catch-up sale, but there are new releases.
First up is a new, young, European, female character for G8.1F from Marcius.
Aside from the head and body morphs she’s got a full texture (including genitals), a tattoo set, and several makeup options.
I love Marcius, and he is such a talented artist and goes to great lengths and uses painstakingly detail with his characters.
But.
She’s generic looking. Of course she’s new to the artist but she looks like every one of the other couple hundred or so other G8F and now G8.1F female characters I and you probably have.
She’s gorgeous. No doubt about it. And she’s got those Marcius touches that only Marcius adds to his characters (you can easily spot artists the more you work with them because some of them have their own trademarks and design philosophies).
But I’m going to have to pass. If she catches my eye in the future then maybe.
Next up is a new 3-piece wardrobe outfit for G8F from xtrart-3d!
Featuring boots, dforce cargo straight-leg pants, and cut-off jacket, this outfit looks fresh and comes with several adjustment morphs.
This looks like an awesome set. I wish the jacket had dforce as well as the pants that would be my only gripe.
But I am buying this. A girl can never have too many outfits, am I right?
Next up is a dforce asymmetric button dress for G8F from PhilW.
This short dress comes in an assorted array of colors that remind me a lot of Oriental styling. They’re bright and lively. It also includes a large selection of movement morphs (buttoned, open skirt, center buttoned, unbuttoned, skirt length, and skirt width).
The dress has 26 different material options for the fabric and buttons.
This one’s added to the wish-list. I already have quite a few short dresses for my characters, and while it’s adorable it’s not for me today.
Next up is a dforce winter duffle-coat for G8F from kobamax.
It has 32 movement and adjustment morphs, and since it also has dforce it will most likely drape naturally on your characters mo matter their poses. It also has four materials for the fabric, and two different materials for the clasps.
This is a smart looking winter coat, but I’m not thinking about rendering any winter scenes right now unfortunately.
This one is getting added to the wishlist, too. I’ll pick this up later on in the year closer to autumn or winter when it goes back on-sale.
Next up is Tesla3D’s take on those social distancing restaurants we saw pop-up in Europe last year.
COVID-19 certainly changed how we live, and it also changed how we eat out. Last saw some some ingenius restaurateur incorporate small greenhouses into their architecture so patrons could eat without fear of either spreading the virus themselves, or catching the virus from another patron. It was a brilliant solution.
This is an exterior set of a restaurant that is focused on the outside. Transparent domes are placed with one or 2 tables underneath. The domes have their own lighting and ventillation, too.
It’s a smart looking set, and you certainly wouldn’t have to use the domes if you didn’t want to. This could just as easily be turned into a normal outside eating arrangment if you wanted.
I’m picking this up. I remain impressed with Tesla3D’s models and you can never have too many environments to place your figures in to render. Those domes can also easily be kitbashed and used for other things, too. 
Next up is a dforce nightgown for G8F from both Pixeluna and shadownet. It includes a nightgown and panty.
The nightgown has a dozen or so movement and adjustment morphs and the panty has severl. It comes with 10 different materials for both and 25 color shaders, and 5 opacity options for a combination of 1250 different color combinations.
I’m going to pass on this. I don’t render very many scenes where my female characters would ever be in a nightgown, but this looks like a very cute and versatile set.
Next up is a new, young, European, female character for G8F from Warloc.
She is a beautiful character for sure, and comes with a full head and body morph, full textures (with genitals), different makeup options, and eye colors.
I’m going to pass on this. For now. Which is no reflection on Warloc or his characters. I just have way too many female characters to justify buying any more. She is unique enough though that I will probably buy her sometime in the future.
Next up is an HDRI lighting set from Paper Tiger.
Paper Tiger are certainly masters when it comes to HDRI lighting, and HDRI lights are quick and fast. But they don’t give you anywhere near the same control that you would have if you use physical lights instead. But I concede they have their place.
This set includes eight different scenes, a large assortment of HDRIs and render settings to adjust them (see, 99% of the options included in this are unnecessary when you use physical lights).
I’m going to pass. I still say you’re better off actually learning how Iray lights work in DAZ Studio and make your own. Your artwork will thank you.
Next up is some body hair for G8.1M from Matari3D.
Buying. Done. Next!
Just kidding (that that was all) but not kidding on the buying part.
Body hair simply adds realism to your figures and to your scenes. All mammals have hair. And while it’s nice that G8.1Male and Female have velus hair now, men (and even women) have more hair than that on their bodies.
This set includes hair options from the neck to toe for your G8.1 guys including armpits, pubes, thighs, shoulders, back, and buttocks.
Six different hair types, eight different color options, five different opacity settings.
Next up are a set of essential poses for G8F from Valery3D.
Includes 30 full-body and partial-body poses for your G8F characters.
On the one hand, most of the poses in this set are quite generic and you probably already have most of them already sitting in your Content Library. On the other hand having the poses broken up by upper-body and lower-body, left-arm, right-arm, left-leg, and right-leg could be quite useful.
But there are scripts you can buy that essentially accomplish the exact same thing with every single pose you already own.
I’m going to pass. The poses are generic and I already have them. Splitting up the poses by body region is a nice touch, but I already have scripts that accomplish that exact same thing for me. This is by no means a dig at the PA.
Next up is another winter outfit for G8F from fjaa3d.
It features a beret, blazer, dress, earrings, rings, shoes, socks, and a purse. The wardrobe items feature several different color options. It appears to rely on dforce primarily to drape the clothing correctly on your figure based on its pose which is a nice welcome touch! After all, isn’t this what dforce was designed to do?
It’s a cute outfit, but yesterday was the first full day of Spring and I think DAZ really missed the boat with this. These outfits should have been released 3-5 months ago and I think then there would be a much greater audience for them.
I’m going to pass, for the same reasons above. It’s Spring and I’m not thinking about Winter any longer.
Last is an idle standing pose set for your Genesis 8 and G8.1 figures from PedroFurtadoArts.
Featuring 10 poses for both male and female, and separated poses by body groups for both of your figures simple standing. Waiting. Relaxed. Doing nothing. Not even pondering life or thinking much about anything. Just neutral.
And I’m picking this up. Hell yes I’m picking this up. Because when I need a pose like this I always have to hunt around to find a pose that’s relaxed enough for my figures.
This would pair really well with Pose Randomizer Pro from RiverSoft Art to add some uniqueness to these poses so your scenes don’t accidentally end up looking like everyone else’s! Also, RiverSoft Art makes some of the best scripts in the market. I highly encourage you to check out their other scripts. They will enhance your workflow tremendously.
So this is a must buy for me.
And that’s it for today! I hope you’ve enjoyed this post today! I’d really love to hear your thoughts. Both the good, and especially the bad!
But as always, until next time please be kind to one-another. #StopAsianHate
