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I’m a big fan of a lot of different styles of art and I’m always experimenting to try to achieve new looks in Daz Studio. That’s what I was going for with this one. I’m not sure I achieved what I was looking for (whatever that was), but I still like how it came out.

I achieved this look by removing almost all texture maps (except transparencies and eyes). The color and shading uses shaders only. If I were to try this again, I might keep bump or normal maps to give it added variety and detail. But I think I wanted something smoother and stylized. I’m still trying to achieve a stylized look in Daz, but I think a lot of that style has to do with the textures themselves as well as lighting. So another experiment I could try would be using gradient or two-toned shaders or custom texture maps to try to achieve that style.

Other notes: I had a little bit of difficulty getting the background prop straight with the rest of the image because of the camera angle. I didn’t really want to change the camera angle and rotating the prop proved annoying. And I couldn’t get it perfect. To solve this, I lined up the prop with the camera, then moved the camera into position. You can see the steps on how I did it below.