Its hard to start out , isn't it, especially when you have no clue about anything.
What is the beginning?
Where is the beginning?

Yikes....

I guess the main thing is to know what you want to end up with, then figure out how to get there.
So if this poster wants to make a model, or just get a model into DAZ Studio to render it, we need to know that in order to point to a specific direction, otherwise, he/she is getting the kitchen sink with the water thrown his way...and is still clueless. Too much information.

A bit of deduction from his previous message where he asks specifically about what software to use for animating and posing, he wants just to get a figure into a program, deck it out, and render...possibly to animate it.

i guess...
what say you naaman?

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Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together.
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