A beginner's questions about comic creation with DAZ3dstudio and Photoshop

RRoriginal21

Hello,

I'm Margaret and I was very enthusiastic seeing this website.I'm an absolute beginner in the field of digital art and I'm very interested in processing,compositing and rendering 3dimages with DAZ3dstudio and Photoshop so that I can create a comic.I've seen several videos on youtube but none of them shows the processing step by step,except 2 or 3,which though were in high speed so I couldn't watch.Could you as experts in digital art tell me which video tutorials of all offered in this website would be proper so I can buy them for this purpose?Are DAZ3dstudio and Photoshop sufficient for compositing high resolution and high quality images for comic creation or I need something else more?And a last question:is it possible to import photos of my own of high resolution (how high resolution?),e.g. a pice of clothe,a car,a house etc,that is if I'm confined to buy pictures only from DAZ website or other websites?

   Thank you very much,I'm looking forward for your answers,each of them would be precious.

Richard Haseltine

What sort of look are you aiming for?

RRoriginal21

I can make photos look like sketches on Photoshop.I don't know though how to combine DAZ3dstudio and Photosop.

 

Knittingmommy

There is a YouTube channel called Black Sun Comics and he has some good tutorials on how he uses DS and making his comics in Photoshop and Comic Life.  There are a couple, but I would start with this one:

BeeMKay

RRoriginal21 said:

I can make photos look like sketches on Photoshop.I don't know though how to combine DAZ3dstudio and Photosop.

 

If you haven't worked much with DAZ Studio before, here's a free Beginer's TutoriaL http://www.daz3d.com/help/help-daz-3d-video-tutorials

Basically, you load the sets and pose the characters in DAZ Studio as you like and need them for the scene. Then youset up the lights and the camera, make half a million test renders until the scene looks the way you want, and when you are satisfied, you render a large scale image (I usually render them out at 6000x6000 (or a ratio aspect of that) for full page imagtes, and anywhere between 2000x2000 and the 6000. I am working with Photoshop Elements and Manga Studio (which is now Clip Studio). I usually do FX in Photoshop (Using Ron's Brush sets here from the shop mostly), though I also bought a few in-render-scene FX, like the light effect by Jepe tht you seee on the title page and page 1. Everything is layoutet and given text in Clip Studio, but you could just as well do that using Photoshop and a text program in which you can create the PDF for upload if you are intending to do a webcomic. If you are aiming for the printed market, Clip Studio is probably a better choice, as it comes with all sorts of margins and extra stuff that is needed "by the Pros".  I probably wouldn't buy it again as it's simply overkill for what I'm trying to do, but the version I got was dirt-cheap in a sale when they switched to the next higher version number.

Back to my process, I have "made" my characters used in Genesis 2, by combining certain base characters, and using morph dials. The skins I use on the characters comes from M/V 4, Genesis 1 or Genesis 2. For switching skins between the generations, I have bought a tool.I clothed every character for the type of scenes that might happen, and gave them the appropriate hair. I saved out each character in Zero Pose as Scene Subset. That way, they keep their clothes and hair, and whatever accessories. I also prepared various "places" that way, for example, the lead character's office, or an outside location.

However, if you want to turn your characters into sketch, then you are probably fine with the base skins, and just morphs. Maybe the 3Delight render Engine is a good option for you. That render engine also has various "Toon" cameras which give you comic style results right out of the render. I'm going for a bit more realistic looking layout, and totally fell in love with how the characters looked in Iray. Here are some samples; the title page image, the pages 1-3 and a scene image of the hero (left side) getting a lecture by his assistant (guy in the center).

RRoriginal21

Thank you all very much for your comments.Because I'm an absolute beginner I need to know the exact procession step by step,that is how to render a photo in DAZ3dstudio,how to pass it on Photoshop,how to use Photoshop actions and Graphicriver.I need some video tutorials on that topic,has anyone to recommend something?Thank you all.