#DAZ Studio

[calluna-dekarios]

He feeling shy.

[melissagt]

"The Admiration of His Majesty"

Baldur's Gate 3 fanart of Astarion with His Majesty. Thank the gods Larian returned him to his hairless glory!

I may or may not totally have it in my head that Astarion insisted on going back for His Majesty at some point. <<

Tools used - Daz Studio Photoshop NO AI EVER

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[dduane]

This started out as a straightforward attempt to create the first of a series of model sheets for the Daz Studio versions of the Middle Kingdoms characters, and then turned into something else.

(Adding a cut for the discussion of digital-design and medieval-history stuff. Caution: contains more than most people's recommended daily dosage of iron.)

In particular, the above was supposed to be a straightforward side-by-side, which-one-is-longer comparison of the two products used to represent Herewiss's sword Khávrinen and Freelorn's sword Hergótha. (And naturally, where these two are involved, who's-got-the-longer-one discussions are routinely likely to devolve into good-natured teasing of a very different kind. So the original sketch-y version of this was tagged "Size Queens.") :)

...What still amuses me at this end of time was that from the start of the series, I had an extremely clear sense of what Khávrinen looked like. Probably this wasn't a bad thing, in that The Door Into Fire has as a constant background motif the (until then hopeless) business of Dusty actually forging it. So it shocked me to discover some years after finishing the first novel that the sword I'd invented in my head was absolutely a dead ringer for one in the typology of medieval swords categorized by the renowned weapons scholar Ewart Oakeshott: the Oakeshott type XVIIIa.

It's a good sword for a man to be forging when he's intent on never having to do it again once he's got it right. The hand-and-a-half sword, also sometimes called the "bastard sword", was developed to cope with 15th-century European battlefields on which the styles of fighting (and of armor) were changing, and which required a more versatile weapon that was good both for cutting and thrusting. Fortunately the digital-object maker who goes by Valandar has had a group of historically-accurate swords on sale for some time now, and the one I use for Khávrinen is one of these: a digital replica of the so-called Sword of Albrecht II.

The other sword in question—the one needed to stand in for the ancient rulers' sword of Arlen—caused me a bit more trouble.* For the first two books of the series (and most of the third) it was missing; so there was no real need, early on, to give too much consideration about what it needed to look like. But when work on book 3 started, I then knew about Oakeshott (and was married to someone who knew a whole more about him than I did). So I did my homework, and the choice for the sword devised in the deeps of time by Héalhra Whitemane eventually fell on yet another of the Type XVIIIa swords: the so-called Sword of Edward III.* Valandar's digital version of this weapon now stands in for Hergótha the Great—Freelorn finally (during the events of The Door Into Sunset) having relocated the family heirloom after its seven-year MIA period.

...Anyway, the model sheets will have to wait for the time being, as there's more time-sensitive work on the desk. I may come back to this concept later using more neutral backgrounds... assuming I can solve the problem that means characters sited inside these lighting schemes seem to have trouble actually getting their feet (and/or swordpoints) to rest flat on the surface under them. The floating-an-inch-above-the-ground thing kind of breaks the sense of reality...

*After having been thought a fake for most of the last century, it's now looking as if this actually was Edward III's sword. A rarity, when misattributions are so common...

[steffihdaz]

[ethanwinterses]

daz studio test

[elizaviento]

I think I'm forgiven now.

[editsulli]

Lazy beautiful

[daintysclaw]

always together💕

[direwrath]

Oooh boy, whatta bear! 😊😁

Halsin from Baldurs Gate 3 rendered by me using Daz Studio 3 with postwork done in GIMP.

This is not an image of the in game model

[calluna-dekarios]

I'm learning how to use Daz because I got this Gale model.

First test

Second test

Third test

Fourth test

Fifth test

Some random scrap bits:

[shanaraharlyah]

Being a night owl himself, Hellendil could never pass up a sleepover invitation. He's taken this chance to share some sweets from home with his classmates and snuck onto the kitchens to make and bring some Welsh Cakes! He hopes someone remembered to bring tea.

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My contribution to the Hogwarts Legacy Sleepover event. ❤️ Posted to the thread, but my art also belongs here.

[dduane]

Status report, Digital Art division....

When you abort a perfectly good render halfway through because in your head you can't shut off the sound of your spouse ranting about trigger discipline.

... :)

[steffihdaz]

[ocelotrenders]

My drow artificer, Edric Vandree!

[ethanwinterses]

I’m ethan winters

[benevolentcannibal]

check the reblog for the last two images.