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I keep trying to leave, but DAZ/Friends keep bringing me back! Military Project

revenger681revenger681 Posts: 156
edited December 1969 in Daz Studio Discussion

So... I left the world of daz for a while, came back after buying Reality 2.5, burnt out on rendering for a few, and now I have some friends who stumbled accross my mostly hidden deviant art page and want me to make some renders for their upcoming clan pages... So here I am once again. lol.

My newest project includes a bunch of real-world russian and american military vehicles including armor, air (Both jets and choppers). Their list is quite demanding on me.... Mostly financially since I DO NOT model... Which means I'm going to have to break out the old bookmarks and find which site sells what, and hopefully for not too much!

I need historically correct models for U.S. marine soldiers, as well as some russian special forces uniforms (not yet specified as to what which special forces, I know they're all different. But they will be whatever forces are more gurilla style fighting). here's what has been requested from me:

Apache AH-64, AH-6J Little Bird, UH-1Y Venom, WZ-10, Z9, Mi-28 Havoc and AH-1z Viper.

Planes include: FA-18 Hornet, Su-35 Flanker, A-10, Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, Su-25 Flanker. Full U.S. Marine core modern combat clothing, perhaps a few assault rifles. Also need russian models of current active special forces uniforms and hand-held rockets including: RPG-7. SMAW, Javlin, ATA4, Stinger, IGLA.

Then I need tanks: M1 Abrams (luckly, I already have a model.), T-90, Type 99, M1128, Sprut-SD

I put units that my friends clans have specifically said they really need for their front page in bold. Ugh, it's quite the list! Then we need launch points, either military hangers (runway and towers with the tarmac are the most important focus) and carriers.

Carrier models include:
USS Yorktown (CV-5), USS Enterprise (CV-6) and the USS Hornet (CV-8)

I'm curious:
If anyone here does DAZ/Poser work for profit and you get a request like this: how do you go about getting the models and charging (if any)? I am thinking about asking them to use some of our server donations to do the same for me, perhaps then we can all pitch in and get models quickly, of those we can find anyways... No profit what-so-ever will be made off the entire bits we make, and most will be small banners and etc. Headers/Footers for the forums, etc.

So far I have found 2 great apache models, the F-18, M1-Abrams, a RPG (Though it isn't the best, it looks more generic, but it may do alright). Carriers I have found 0 models so far. The two top models requested of me atm is the AH-64 and the F-35 Lightning II. I have yet to find a F-35 model as of yet. The Little Bird is also very much up there since we use them in-game a lot.

Lastly, and probably not used much will be the uniform outfits. I am thinking just taking in-game footage, and extracting snap-shots will work. Especially if I convert those images into backgrounds/IBL to pop into the photos of various vehicles. Lastly: Since aircraft carriers will be used extensively for the main ground, I need great looking ocean (makes me think that after setting it up in DAZ (I don't own Poser), Exporting to Bryce may be a good choice. Unless DAZ can do large ocean scenes?


I find it funny they asked me to do it, As I am just a casual 3d artist who does things for fun, I'm hardly very skilled at it. But apparently they like my work. So I suppose I'll try my best and get some banners going, etc. I found one site which has a lot of models on their site, but their prices are WAY too high for a none-profit type project, ranging from $300.00-$900 for a single artillary model... I'm looking for something in the range of $10.00~$40.00- per model.

This will certainly be a fun little project. I can see the price of this skyrocketing depending on which ones we end up using, as I highly doubt we will use them all.... at least for the sake of my wallet I hope not. lol.

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