@poisinivy Would you believe I have had the pleasure of watching your video before? I think the same of it now as I did then ....... I love it!! I also noticed a favourable comment from Peter Blood now there is a man that knows his stuff. I will send you a link to a website where you can check out my work. As a moderator putting it here might be a little self serving being commercial.

Now about the Daz ---> part. Are you using Daz 4.9 beta or the official 4.9 release? Daz 4.9 beta had an issue I am thinking towards the last update where when exporting you would send it out but when trying to open in another program it would crash. I could close 4.9 open the exact same project file in 4.8 that the character etc was prepared for and set the timeline to 1 frame if I had added a facial expression DUF key and export FBX open it in the other software usually 3DXChange 6 and carry on as normal. (I set the timeline to 1 because it speeds up the export by about 20 times over at least and at my age every second counts) As far as I know this issue was fixed re the export glitch perhaps a Daz staffer can confirm this.

If you still have 4.8 then you should not have an issue

Looking at your clip if you were to ask me what software would I recommend to do your animations I would say Reallusion iClone Pipeline and Daz both are DRM. I started in the music industry well before DRM but it has been in for a long time now and then got into film/animation which if you head into the serious software and also want to be protecting your own work the DRM is just like part of the furniture. I shop for clients projects and a car for example on some sites can range from 100 to 1500 bucks each with licensing so I can tell you there isn't a car left in the Daz store and the Rendo MP upstairs here better get a wriggle on because Nationale7 and a few others aint building them quick enough. Same goes for all the city blocks and props in Poser or Daz format.

I have two clips to release shortly for an Australian band I started them long before Daz even mentioned the DRM and I am still working on them now using Daz for export. I recommend hang in there and wait before making any major decisions over Daz but while you wait take a little trip upstairs to the MP and download the iClone trial and have some fun, Check your specs first but if you are using the software you already indicated it should be fine :-) If you like it then you already have a great library I run PP2014 and Daz purely to buy, prepare and export for animation. oh with the occasional render in each either album covers or for fun. Bryce is good for terrains............... use them all.

I will send you that link.

- Johnny G

"Try animation to get things moving"

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