I finally have had to come to the conclusion that I need someone to walk me through the basic and intermediate understanding of how to use DAZ. I have tried the tutorials and for the most part do not find them very helpful.

i am willing to pay for someone to tutor me on an hourly basis over the phone.

I have been experimenting with DAZ Studio for years and every time I think I have gotten to a level of competance and understanding I run into a brick wall and eventually give up.

I love Bryce because everything is intuitive. You can assign textures to Bryce objects easily because there are so many excellent presets. I have tried to use presets for Materials in DAZ and they never seem to work. I like the posing presets because you can just click on them and see the results instantly. I click on the Materials for characters in DAZ and nothing happens. And using the dials for diffuse, specularity, etc are even more confusing.

Probably three of four hour sessions would be enough to get me to the point where I can be productive. One thing I would like to be able to do is take a Kids 4 character ad and duplicate the look and feel from the ad and do the same for some scene ads also.

I have a children’s book project I am working on and the main character is a 5-7 years old. The DAZ ads look great, but trying to duplicate the face textures is beyond me. Trial and error is just not working. There are probably some really simply things I do not understand. I want to be able to modify the character using morphs.

If anyone is interested, let me know via this thread and we can figure out how to talk over the phone.