DAZ Studio : the missing training DVD
DAZ Studio and Plugins: the missing video training DVD!
Last link-checked and updated: July 2020.
1. Introduction:
DAZ Studio 4: a 14 Minute Starter Overview (video)
DAZ Studio 4: Getting Used to the New User Interface (video)
2. Managing and Loading Content:
DAZ Studio 4: How to Import All Your old Runtime Content and How to Have Preview Pictures Show Up (tutorials with screenshots, free utility)
DAZ Studio 4: Content Library Basics - find and tag and filter content (videos)
DAZ Studio 4: How to Install New Content (video)
DAZ Studio 4: Smart Content - Working with Files and Purchased Products (videos)
Once you’ve seen those, DAZ Studio 101 is a good if rather long playlist on YouTube, with the first half especially useful for beginners.
3. Characters:
DAZ Studio 4: Basic Character Posing (video)
DAZ Studio 4: How to Apply Morphs to Victoria (video)
DAZ Studio 4: What is the new Genesis Figure Type?, How to Auto Fit Clothing to Genesis and How to Export Genesis to use in Poser (videos)
DAZ Studio 4: Surfaces / Materials / Textures (video)
DAZ Studio 4: Parameters - Moving and Bending Characters and Props (video)
DAZ Studio 3 & 4: Animation Tutorial Part 1 and Part 2 (videos)
Getting started with Puppeteering (video)
4. “Lights, Camera, Render!”
Tutorial: “Where the heck are the light controls in DAZ Studio?”
DAZ Studio 4: How to Load Light Presets and How to Make Your Own Lighting (videos)
DAZ Studio 4: Finding the Cameras & Basic Camera Views and Using the Camera Editor (videos)
DAZ Studio 4: Introduction To The Render Settings and How to Access the Render Library and The Progressive Render Features (videos)
5. Major Plugins:
DAZ Studio 4 Pro: Using Plugins - the 3D Bridge to Photoshop (video)
DAZ Studio 4 Pro: Using Plugins - installing and Working with the Game Development Kit (intro tutorial on Decimator and Texture Atlas plugins, FBX export)
DAZ Studio 3 & 4: Using Plugins - Mimic Live! (your character speaks with lip-sync) (video)
DAZ Studio 4: Using Plugins - how GoZ offers access to Zbrush from DAZ (video)
DAZ Studio 4: Tutorials on DAZ to Blender and DAZ to Cinema 4D, with the new July 2020 Bridge plugins.