DAZ Studio is a feature rich 3D figure modeling, posing, and animation tool that enables users of any skill level to easily create stunning digital imagery. Whether you're a 3D newbie or an avid 3D artist, you'll find DAZ Studio is the perfect tool for designing unique digital art and animation with virtual people, animals, props, vehicles, backgrounds and more. Experience total creative freedom with DAZ Studio and express yourself in 3D like never before. This free version of DAZ Studio also doubles as the 30-day trial. Features for DAZ Studio 3 Advanced are enabled in the free version for 30 days, at which time they will be disabled unless the Advanced version is purchased. The Core version of DAZ Studio 3 will remain free.

New Features in DAZ Studio 3:

Improved Render Engine
DAZ Studio is now compatible with version 8.5 of the powerful 3Delight render engine. Improved performance and memory management reduce render times and handle heavy, complex scenes like never before.

aniMate Lite
aniMate Lite takes a "building block" approach to animation. Pre-created animations are broken down into portable and editable chunks (aniBlocks) that can be arranged together into complete animation sequences. You can create complex animations by dragging and stacking aniBlocks into a timeline. You can then re-arrange, add, or delete the aniBlocks until the sequence is just right. You can also crop, split or combine aniBlocks to create a completely new effect or aniBlock.

COLLADA Import/Export
This is truly a revolutionary step towards full interoperability between Carrara and DAZ Studio. Now you can export figures, conforming clothing, morphs and scenes from DAZ Studio into Carrara. A key new ingredient to this cross-functionality is support for "sparse morph" data. This allows you to transfer large amounts of morph data within smaller files for greater speed. DAZ 3D pioneered this technology for the COLLADA file format and DAZ Studio is the first application to use this new technique.

Features:

User Interface Features:
· Custom Keyboard Shortcuts
· ToolBar Settings
· Multiple Selection in Properties
· Mulitple Undo/Redo
· OpenGL Hardware Accelerated Preview
· Skin-able UI/Style Selection
· Customizable Layout
· Content Manager (Database)
· PowerLoader
· Auto Magnetize
· Drag and Drop
· Advanced Surface Editing
· Background Images
· Multiple Views
· Custom Bounding Box Display
· Import User Settings (from past versions)
· Sandio 3D Mouse Support
· Connexion 3D Mouse Support

Modeling Features:
· Basic Primitives
· Multiple UV Support
· Figure Mixer
· Morph Follower

Rendering & Effects Features:
· 3Delight 8.5
· Spot Render Tool
· Compositing (Backdrops)
· Raytracing
· OpenGL Support
· MultiProcessor Support (SMP)
· Image Filtering
· n-Photorealistic Rendering (NPR)
· Cartoon Rendering (Toon)
· Depth of Field & Camera Pointer (by Dreamlight)
· Displacement Mapping
· Raytraced Depth of Field
· Levels of Detail (LOD)
· Render Album
· Spot, Point, Distant Lights
· Visible in Render
· Scripted Render Access
· Shader Baking
· Map Transfer
· Shader Builder (Advanced Shader Editor)
· Shader Mixer (Advanced Material Editor)
· Uber Environment 2
· Normal Maps
· Glow Lights
· Light Gels
· Caustics
· Final Gathering

Manipulation Features:
· Scene Manipulators
· Align Ace
· D-form
· PowerPose
· Puppeteer

Animation Features:
· Keyframe Animation
· Keyframe Editor by GoFigure
· AniMate Lite by GoFigure
· Euler Angles for Rotations
· Lip-sync

Dynamic Clothing Features:
· Dynamic Clothing (Powered by OptiTex)
· Freeze/Export Simul