It makes the job of putting the comic together and adding speech bubbles pretty easy, and definitely easier and cheaper than Photoshop (I do have Photoshop but I generally just use it for touching up clipping on the models and lightening/darkening renders). Then you need to make them speak! To do this, I use Comic Life ( ). Then hit render and BAM, you have your first picture (be prepared to wait a long time for complex renders, and make sure you're using an NVidia graphics card as Daz3D's primary render engine won't use AMD cards). There are a tonne of tutorials on the creation process and everyone will have different advice, so read around, play with the software. Load an environment, pose your character, play with the lighting. Once you have all the bits you need then have a play. Then open up Daz3D and it will be in your Library (if you already have it open you can right click on the library and hit refresh. Drop into your Daz Library/Content folder. Select the 'Runtime' folder and everything in it.Ģ.

Drop it into your 'Daz Library' folder or 'Content' folder. Open that folder and select everything in it.Ģ. To install, open the Zip file you've just downloaded and you will either see a folder that says 'Runtime' or one that says 'Content or My Library'.ġ. There's a lot of free content out there too if you are just starting off: When I say not cheap, you could (and I have) spend hundreds on making a single comic and never make anything back until you have a portfolio to show potential commissioners you know what you are doing. Once you are more confident you can start to buy characters, outfits, environments etc, but it isn't cheap so don't buy anything to begin with. The older models have a lot of resources out there but nothing new is coming out and if you go with the new models you'll have a steady stream of new characters and outfits to play with. The basic Genesis models are free and are a good place to make a start. The characters are all based on the Genesis model, which is up to version 8.1 (although they went straight from 3 to 8 for long and complicated reasons). mostly, but I'll come to that.ĭaz3D gives you a few free resources to play with to get started. This is the main design and rendering software that I use to make the comics. What I can do is point you to the tools I use so you can teach yourself, like I did, and maybe give you a few tips along the way.įirst thing to do - download Daz3D from. There's no way I could teach you how to make a comic. Let's have a look at how the comics are created. This won't be a how-to. so I thought I'd have a go at answering at least one of them. I get a lot of questions, in comments, messages etc.

Can i use daz models in comics