Peaches - A Daz 3D animated film

Peaches is my submission for Daz 3D's Movember contest. Everything in this video was animated and rendered in Daz 3D.

[@comunahistoria2431]

Everyone that has try animating something with Daz will reconize the stunning hard work that has this animation behind. Congratulations!

[@lt1529]

yeah it's really hard to animate

[@jeeroylenkins3081]

Also recognize to just not use Daz for animation.

[@KyanZero]

@@jeeroylenkins3081 So what could be used to animate in daz in exception of daz? LOL

[@jeeroylenkins3081]

@@KyanZero You can animate outside of DAZ studio while still using DAZ assets...Like use actual animation software. Daz is primarily a 3D rendering software, it has major limitations with animation. It can look good if you know what you are doing though. This sadly isn't one of those cases, but good effort.

[@e-learn1589]

@@jeeroylenkins3081 so what your recommendation for person who want to animated 3d character fro game or short movie?

[@RevFilmore]

The voice actors I could listen to all day.

[@endrew.h.5998]

This is impressive! Been trying to look at showcases for Daz3D, as most of the users have just used the still picture/short loops as the way of utilizing a scene. Was really refreshing seeing fully animated scenes and how smart camera pans can make it looks and feel really good!

[@BennieWoodell]

Thank you so much! It means a lot to hear that. Yeah, most users use Daz for stills and such so I've had to do a lot of trial and error over the past four years or so to figure things out as there are no answers to many questions I come across. I love Daz and I hope that Daz 5 fixes a lot of the animation problems, because there are some problems with it, but if you're patient, you can really do some wonderful stuff with the program but I've found most users who animate immediately dismiss Daz and say you need Blender or Maya which you don't. If you embark on some animation, good luck!

[@MichaelKerch87]

This is so BEAUTIFULL, touching and relevant. I LOVE IT SO MUCH. The narrative voice is so pleasing to listen to. Thanks man I needed that.

[@BennieWoodell]

Wow, thank you so much for the extremely kind comment, I really needed that this morning as well :)

[@strivingacres8105]

I can't imagine how long this must have taken with Daz. Nice job!

[@BennieWoodell]

Thank you! Honestly, I started it on November 1st and finished it up on the 20th for the Movember contest. I wasn't rendering 24/7 though, probably could have gotten it done sooner. Two things helped out immensely, one was rendering in layers, which I always do to speed things up drastically, and then I also got a new computer with a 3090 graphics card the second week of November. So the frames that were taking 3 minutes to get to 80% on my 1080ti were taking 30-45 seconds to get to 95%. Thank you so very much for checking it out :)

[@iamcdj_]

​@@BennieWoodell Hahaha I got the 3090 as well and my goodness it has been a blessing!

[@redone823]

@@BennieWoodell which cpu did you get? Thread ripper 3990x?

[@RevFilmore]

@@BennieWoodell hang on you did all this in less than three weeks? On your own? I still struggle to find this morph and that map and the other feature I've forgotten where it was after doing Daz for about a year.

[@FinnLovesFP]

@@BennieWoodell I just recently starting learning how to use DAZ. I use a 3080, and just doing a 13 ssecond short with 800 Samples in a small room took me 4 hours. I didn't seem to be out of vram, and GPU acceleration is enabled. But rendering animations take so long for some reason. And I also seem to have an issue when it comes to having animations pause for a sescond or two after completion, as the timeline doesn't really seem to like me pausing haha. Got any good tips that would help speed up rendering outside of hiding objects out of view?

[@0xHaxies]

This is welldone. From the story to animation. Hoping the KZbin algorithm picks up this video this year.

[@desmondharper6628]

wow this is insane, the render times man...... earned yourself a sub here bro!

[@BennieWoodell]

Thank you! I really appreciate it :D

[@holdthetruthhostage]

@@BennieWoodell this was deep man wow

[@rafedalwani]

Interesting choice of DAZ to do animation. I know how hard it is to animate in DAZ. Keep them coming!

[@rainbowgaming8441]

iclone is way faster , daz is all ways worlds away and the things iclone can do daz cant even come close iclone all the way a far better program

[@brentpolk2431]

Congratulations on what had to be a rendering nightmare!

[@BennieWoodell]

Thank you! But it wasn't really bad at all, each frame I did in layers, so if the camera didn't move, I only needed one frame of the background, so the character was taking 15-30 seconds, closer shots were closer to 45 seconds. All in all, it was a little over two weeks. I also got a computer with a 3090 graphics card right when I started working on this, so that also helped immensely as I was getting 95% completion in 30 seconds, but with my old 1080ti would have been 3 minutes to 80%.

[@HeLIEl]

@@BennieWoodell It took 3 weeks to render with the 3090 or just 3 weeks? I'm considering upgrading to a 3090 for this kind of film, but if it did i'm might as well save up for a quadro i'm trying to have my films rendered in a day

[@BennieWoodell]

@@HeLIEl It took three weeks total to do this, I started on November 1st and finished it all up, sound design included, on November 20th for the Daz Movember contests. The animation took me a week and the rendering two weeks to do. But if you want iray, even with this graphics card, you're not going to have your films rendered in a day. I don't know how long your scripts are, maybe if they're 30 seconds or so with no camera movement you could do it, but these frames were taking about 30-45 seconds each for characters and another 45 seconds or so for backgrounds, so a minute and a half total for each frame roughly. If you want a real-time render to get done with a full film in a day, you should really look into UnReal and use the Daz Bridge for it, or Filament or Eevee in Blender. Then you can get everything rendered in a day, but you won't have the same quality as Iray (you could get very close in UnReal but to learn a whole new program, for me at least, after learning Blender this year isn't what I want to do).

[@HeLIEl]

@@BennieWoodell I'm learning blender and i have seen some very brilliant scenes done inside the program. I have a strip club scene written just need the software to pull it off i may get two 3090's i should be able to have high realistic quality

[@BennieWoodell]

@@HeLIEl Oh I love Blender! You can do so much with it. A lot of times I mix Daz and Blender renders together. I do all characters in daz because I can't get skins and hair to transfer to the quality that they are if they're rendered in Daz through either the Daz to Blender bridge or the Diffeomorphic tool, but I texture everything with Quixel Megascans anyways so it'll look the same in either program. A lot of times I'll render backgrounds with Sheep-it to save time. But even with my 3090, when I rendered a shot with Future Slums from Kitbash 3D and re-textured with Quixel assets, it still took 2 minutes a frame in cycles. So again, if you want to have a film rendered in a day, if you want high realistic quality you'll be using Cycles and you will not be able to get a film rendered in a day. It'll still be quicker than like a 1080ti, but if you want it in a day, you'll have to lose some quality and go with Eevee. But if you don't subscribe yet, pay the 20 bucks a month for Quixel, I can't recommend it enough, it's made a night and day difference in my work.

[@KORRE760]

what an absolutely gorgeous piece of art you’ve created

[@BennieWoodell]

Aww thank you so very much for the kind words and taking the time to watch 😊

[@kacyowens9903]

Bennie! This is awesome and I am proud to be able to call you my friend

[@BennieWoodell]

Aww thank you, that means so much

[@MyselfUser101]

We Have Come A Long Way Since 2019... And this was great for 2019...

[@zenosyeetgalvus]

This has the soul of early 2000s stopmotion, the stuff that made me want to be an animator as a child. Your work touched me in the feels, bigtime. Well done

[@MyUnrealJourney]

I started watching because I was looking into Daz3D. I rarely get emotional but damn this short hit me. Great work

[@arpitknwar]

Same all scene was truely happend in someones life

[@natesky1309]

nailed it boss i love everything about it. nice work........

[@briboy2009]

Very good, it just goes to show what can be done in Daz

[@suzukito]

insane project dude. seriously. some of these shots are absolutely incredible, and you’ll have to teach me some of those neon-ey lighting techniques ! well done

[@lukemcwilliamsreviews]

Fantastic work Bennie! What a beautiful, moving and very relevant story executed brilliantly! Congratulations!

[@jonathanmartin-ives8665]

I appreciate this. It gives me hope to actually make a movie.

[@BennieWoodell]

Thank you, that really means a lot to hear. When you get that film of yours finished, it will be such a feeling of accomplishment and pride, I sincerely hope you get a chance to do it.

[@jonathanmartin-ives8665]

@@BennieWoodell I think the hardest part for me will be courage and confidence to learn how to use Daz3D. I'm not very good with computers, but when I saw how awesome your lighting was, I got hooked on wanting to try. I started looking for and buying characters soon after. I have also subscribed to your channel to see what future magic you will make!

[@stubi1103]

What a wonderful work !!!!

[@FlockofAngels]

Fascinating work! Inspiring as well! Kudos! 💖💖

[@BennieWoodell]

Thank you so much! 😊

[@SettyM]

Props to you Bennie, Awesome Job

[@BennieWoodell]

Thank you so much, I appreciate it.

[@stevenjoenoora3642]

This is amazing! A very talented artist! Congratulations!

[@arpitknwar]

Wow that animation is good but the story and level of story telling of such emotional story.. Really good netflix level story..

[@Animegold2856]

I would love to see this advance to a full length film❤

[@NewYorkCityFiles]

Amazing work! I can't imaging how much time and hard work went into this! Great job!

[@CSAATechArts]

Bennie, I've seen your work on the Daz Forums. I just stumbled on your animation clip just now. Amazing, man! Keep up the great work. Cheers!

[@ronnellrobertson7579]

I like this. I was wondering if it's possible to make a movie or video with Daz. This right here is magnificent 👏 👌 🙌 ✨️

[@ldgilman]

VERY very touching!!!

[@andyprice463]

Fantastic film, I have some experience animating in Daz so I understand how long it can take to get renders completed, especially in Iray, so what you have produced here in such a short amount of time is incredible! Well done.

[@carlosmanutencoes3346]

thanks for motivation for daz3d

[@Gray-Today]

Nicely done, Bennie.

[@prone7210]

✨Good story!! Voice acting is amazing ✨

[@BennieWoodell]

Thank you! I'll pass your wonderful comment along to the actors :)

[@blenderzone5446]

daz 3d seams to got potentials

[@gashthereaper]

Brooo this story is beautiful

[@BennieWoodell]

Thank you so much :)

[@artist172]

great Job shed a tear at the end there. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@BennieWoodell]

Thank you for watching :)

[@ThisIsVersatile]

AMAZING WORK! And especially in 3 weeks time! I’m BLOWN AWAY!!!

[@allanimation8336]

love you man this was the great story

[@BennieWoodell]

Thank you so much, I really appreciate it :)

[@eequihua]

Nice, Daz3d has very nice Genesis models, hair models are spectacular, HDRI's and everything to produce high quality films.

[@thur_music.brazil9320]

From Brazil 🇧🇷

[@socialresponsibilityillust6396]

Wonderful animtion!

[@dreamflostudio]

Bravo!

[@BennieWoodell]

Thank you :)

[@onemicmusic4654]

This was amazing

[@lamontcollins3309]

Entertainingly done and relevant.

[@BennieWoodell]

Thank you so very much for the kind words :)

[@tianxiangxiong8223]

Wonderful--you're doing things w/ Daz animation I haven't seen before. The story, characters, & cinematography are top-notch as well. If this is for a contest, I hope you win!

[@BennieWoodell]

Thank you so, so very much for the incredibly kind comment! It really means a lot. This was for the Daz Movember contest, but they just released the winners and sadly it wasn't listed but it's okay because I have a short I'm really proud of.

[@tianxiangxiong8223]

@@BennieWoodell Indeed, you have a lot to be proud of! I'm still trying to get good at static scenes. Still learning & experimenting w/ lighting, but I've come a long way since starting 2.5 months ago. Hopefully I can get into animation soon, though I'd like to get my hands on a new GPU before that.

[@BennieWoodell]

@@tianxiangxiong8223 Heck yeah, keep practicing. I started with Daz about 3 years ago now and I take a lot of time every day for experimenting and learning as much as I can, doing some shorts along the way. I actually just began blocking everything out for my first feature film to be done with Daz. I started because I was tired of not having the budget to make the movies I want to make and the only expenses for computer animation is any assets you buy and actors to do the voices (aside from the computer but I have one anyways). Totally keep up with learning and doing as much animation as you can, even if you can't render it yet due to not having a solid GPU. Get your ideas on the timeline and render it out with open GL, or filament now, not to post but so you have everything there and you can start working on sound design and seeing if everything cuts together or things need some tweaking here or there, and then when you get your new graphics card start rendering out all the files and overwrite the open gl renders so that your editing system will just read those instead and all the work is ready to go and you can release a bunch of stuff one after the other. I subscribed to your channel because I'd love to see what you come up with when you're ready to release stuff!

[@skeyesk2717]

“ technology is so cold “

[@rish1132]

This is an awesome piece of animation. Really great! You gave me inspiration to be an artist on Daz Studio.

[@jeffersonburton1006]

Well done. Thanks for sharing.

[@BennieWoodell]

Thank you for watching :)

[@elitetrash017]

how did u make this godlike master piece

[@st2251a]

Nice work ya the Rendering must have been something

[@azcraigrr]

Well done - great story! Must have taken weeks to render all those frames!

[@BennieWoodell]

Thank you so much for taking the time to watch and the kind words, it really means a lot! Honestly though, this took a little over two weeks to render. When I started working on this, I got a new computer with a 3090 graphics card, plus I render everything in layers, and each layer took at most 30 seconds to render, so most frames took a minute to a minute and a half total. It could have taken less time if I was rendering 24/7 as well, but I didn't let things run overnight just in case since the computer was new.

[@forhadrh]

@@BennieWoodell Ow...!

[@dsexton72]

There are a couple of technical issues I could nickpick about, but I'm sure you realize those yourself. But the things I do love...the hard work, the story, the pacing, the narrative, and the music. This was simply awesome.

[@user-yb4fu9nv9g]

Then why say it if he realizes it himself? This is Daz, so nothing is going to be perfect obviously.

[@dsexton72]

@@user-yb4fu9nv9g Because obviously it needed to be said that while it's not perfect it's still wonderful. Let's not get too emotional about my comment. It was made a year ago.

[@neverenoughguitars8276]

If there's one thing I've learned from Daz and animation, find a way to frame your shots so you don't see the feet.

[@thur_music.brazil9320]

❤❤❤❤

[@AminaAlsheehi]

Great idea

[@Cain-x]

Great work! It is nice to see other DAZ animators and the work they make.

[@BennieWoodell]

Thank you so much! I really appreciate you taking the time to check out the film.

[@2fat2furious1]

Awesome video

[@DNU303]

Amazing 🤩

[@aquelerromojas4424]

So awesome..... Daz 3d studio.....

[@mimexion]

This ....spoke to me .....its absolutely beautiful

[@BennieWoodell]

Thank you so much :) It really means the world when you hear something you create resonates with someone.

[@UncleMehrdawd]

niiiiiiiiiiiiceeeee congrats mate

[@williamthomas270]

I am a huge fan 💯💯💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯🔥🔥

[@bebeisacc8321]

gosh u need more credit for this like about 10k subs

[@zeroxfour]

Good job at this attempt. The story wasn't, not my cup of tea, but kudos for making something worth watching. Animating in Daz is a challenge and I'm sure you were against the clock for the competition. Keep working hard and stay at it. You did on many different levels but watch your camera angles. I think that's what betrayed this work more than anything else. Use them to overcome some DAZ issues like feet and hand contact. Overall good job.

[@BennieWoodell]

Hey thanks so much for taking the time to watch and for the feedback. I agree with the feet and hand contact stuff, I'm positive I know the exact spots you're referring to and they were incredibly frustrating when I was working on this. I remember the stepping up onto the ledge, that was the best I could get it to work in Daz after I forget how many hours I spent, but then just to make sure it wasn't me and my skills and it was a problem in Daz, I brought the character into Blender through the diffeomorphic tool and in five minutes had the guy step up onto the ledge perfectly. I still animate in Daz a lot because this short landed me a couple of long-term animation gigs, but I do my personal projects now in Blender or Maya. I go back and forth because I'm taking courses through Animation Mentor so I have access to Maya and want to keep up with it since so many jobs want a background in Maya, but I love Blender and how user friendly it is, so I work in both for my own projects now. Thanks again for watching, means a lot :)

[@clausbohm9807]

I retired right before the virus hit and right after I left my girlfriend in SE Asia. Wammy 3X (post work life harder then I thought, pandemic restrictions, isolation from family due to international travel restrictions). Damn this pandemic sucks but at least now USA has it under control! Great Vid!

[@cgpagel]

Great Work

[@BennieWoodell]

Thank you!

[@seanmnuanes]

Fantastic

[@BennieWoodell]

Thank you :)

[@jamdungmediaproductions5098]

good stuff

[@NikkoAqua]

I wish I could like it twice! 😖

[@oaoskey6051]

Unlike then like again

[@NikkoAqua]

@@oaoskey6051 Hold on while my mind proceeds to be blown 🤯 Did it 😌

[@scorpJimenez]

This is superb work , excellent

[@Karlengler1]

All I can say is Wow! Great job.

[@BennieWoodell]

Thank you so much! :)

[@play-good]

Good Job

[@thevtuberbuteau3224]

Wow. fr im getting daz studio

[@nyxmk2352]

Cool movie. Concept was good. The animation shows that you have a lot of patience and passion to put things together. The best thing I loved is how efficiently you used Deforce. Good work.... keep doing and engage in bigger projects. Between I am a big daz fan😉. I don't make much because of the tiring render times. Happy animating ahead

[@BennieWoodell]

Thank you so much! Yeah, this was a solid 3 week project, patience is definitely needed. And thank you for noticing the dForce! I just started to try and figure it out a couple of months ago, this was my first real experiment. I'm excited to see what else is possible! I just started actually setting up all my scenes for an animated feature, I'm very excited.

[@nyxmk2352]

@@BennieWoodell oh that's really great. All the very best for your future animated project. Would love to see it.

[@The1pfm]

great

[@TheLorentin]

Ahora entiendo porque silenciaron esta animación y nunca salio a la luz.

[@3dwithshubham]

Good going Great narration Feel some lighting and shadows can be better, and also some stability correction need to animation Like Nice to See 🤩

[@BennieWoodell]

Thanks for checking it out and enjoying it! I do agree that there are things that I wish I could have done differently, but I did this for that contest Daz put on in November. So I wrote, animated, and rendered this all in three weeks, there was no time for perfection. The most time I spent on anything was that damned shot of his foot stepping up on the ledge near the end. That was the best I could get after five hours in Daz, feet just cannot stay in one spot no matter what you do. Then just to see if it was Daz or my animation ability, I did the shot in Blender in five minutes and he stepped up perfectly, but I couldn't get the shoe materials to show up as anything but white, and I had already spent far too much time on that shot so I just moved on and kept what I'd done in Daz. But yeah, if this was a short I'd done without any time constraints, I would have definitely made some tweaks in some spots.

[@3dwithshubham]

Goal is to make to short movie in a short time and you did it🔥 it's good practice to make stuff in less time that will help for long term project to speedup stuff and after all you know what you have to correct that good👍

[@SPEAKYACE]

love it this bro 🔥✊🏽

[@BennieWoodell]

Thank you so much 😊

[@missindependante4872]

Woooow

[@migueld8970]

Well done man.

[@hwll.music.brasil5543]

Nice 💓💓💓

[@BennieWoodell]

Thank you :)

[@hwll.music.brasil5543]

@@BennieWoodell From Brasil 🇧🇷

[@twantlavish]

Wow that was amazing. Loved it bro. So much. Amazing message.

[@BennieWoodell]

Thank you so very much for watching and the kind words :)

[@twantlavish]

@@BennieWoodell Your welcome. Anytime.

[@sio9521]

very nice

[@BennieWoodell]

Thank you :)

[@GoodElissabat]

Oh cool

[@dr1946]

Its so hard to make. Congats dear you do it

[@BennieWoodell]

Thank you so much :)

[@aprendamosadisenarenbryce9046]

Excelent animation work but when he walks in the street it seems that he is flying, his shadow is not attached to his feet

[@favyijomah1889]

damn this is so touching amazing work man!

[@BennieWoodell]

Thank you! :)

[@blaichu4507]

such a great job! congrats🙌

[@bedjodjowo3617]

keren luurr..!! lagi belajar juga buat animasi pake Daz 3D..it's awesome, Bennie! keep it up..

[@martymar9311]

good

[@Mrdarkknight991]

Wow - Absolutely genius this has to be the best daz animation I hope this is Filament PBR Renderer and NOT Iray

[@BennieWoodell]

Thank you for the extremely kind words and taking the time to watch this, it means a lot :) But this is all done in Iray, I got a new computer with a 3090 graphics card a couple days before Filament was released, so these frames all took about 30-60 seconds to render in Iray. If I was still on my 1080ti, I would be trying out Filament for sure.

[@Mrdarkknight991]

@@BennieWoodell if it's 30-60 Seconds - which is superbly FASTER - then always stick with Iray Filament does not have that smooth reflection or that realistic hair it's definitely a better alternative animation but for the weak graphic card like mine NividiaG-force940m

[@BennieWoodell]

@@Mrdarkknight991 Oh, it doesn't? Gotcha, I'll stick with Iray then. I got really lucky, I saw Dell had a deal on computers with the new 3000 series with 0% interest for 18 months, couldn't pass it up.

[@phrelancelotmusic]

👏🏽🔥

[@storyteller_tom]

Bennie! Really well done. Now, how about creating the same thing in Unreal Engine with the same characters and seeing how that works out in the ease of animation or the rendering or setting up the environments, etc. That'd make for a really good comparison video.

[@BennieWoodell]

Thanks Tom! You know, I actually just signed up for a free tutorial on the basics for UnReal from this guy I found on Facebook, I'm finishing a couple of commissions right now, but hopefully in the next week or two I can start the tutorial and learn UnReal. Great idea on trying to do a comparison, after I figure out the program I'll give it a whirl! Thanks for checking out the film :)

[@DeepFrydTurd]

Crazy son of a biscuit was about to jump off

[@PhilW222]

Good story and well put together

[@willowwonderbull7100]

this is so good considering daz studio really isnt the best for animating i wont dare try to animate i only have a single 1080ti

[@BennieWoodell]

Thank you! Yeah, Daz really needs to up it's game for Daz 5 if it wants to be taken more seriously as an option for animation. Sure, once you figure out the workarounds on how to get things to work in Daz, not always perfectly but okay, it's doable but if you're able to use something like Blender or Maya, you're better off right now. And yeah, I had a 1080ti and I was animating with it, but it definitely took about 3 minutes per frame to render. I did this short with a 3090, so all the rendering took a week and a half to two weeks, it's been over a year now so I don't remember exactly.

[@georges8408]

men, congratulation for this really nice video. From your experience, please let me know... Daz3D or Iclone is EASIER for animation like this in your movie ? thanks

[@BennieWoodell]

Thank you! I honestly have never used Iclone, I only animate in Daz 3D or Blender. I like rendering in Daz better than Blender because I can render quicker in Iray, but I find the rig is superior in Blender, so I go back and forth.

[@adamdavies66]

Impressive work.

[@TAREEBITHETERRIBLE]

what model was Peaches?? she's hot! super great film

[@BennieWoodell]

Thank you for watching! I honestly don't remember if she's either Sahira 8 or she started at Sahira 8 and I did some tweaks combining some other characters. The skin is Sahira 8 for sure though. Sahira is my absolute favorite character in the Daz world :)

[@heeeeeresrossy]

Amazing! In your honest opinion, how hard in Daz 3D? And do I need a powerful laptop? I'm wanting to make 5 minute shorts for a KZbin channel I'm considering starting. Cheers.

[@BennieWoodell]

Thank you! Honestly, I don't think Daz 3D is that hard to get beautiful images, it's made for the user to be able to make great art out of the box, but it's animation tools are not the best. I picked things up fairly quickly though because started with Daz after making films for fifteen years, so a lot of my film knowledge just naturally transferred over in regards to like story, lighting, composition and such. I don't know your background, so if you have any 3D or film experience, you'll pick it up pretty quick. But here's the thing though, when working with Daz, there is a lot of trial and error on figuring out what you can and can't do with it. While animation is totally doable in the program, their rig, IK, and keyframe system is far behind all the other programs and feet sliding is a huge problem. As you can see in the shot when he's stepping on the ledge, that was hours worth of work and that was the best I could do to get his foot to not totally slide around. Just to test it, I brought the character into Blender and used rigify, and in five minutes I had a perfect step where the foot stayed in place, but I couldn't match the textures so I had to stay in Daz. Now there's a product from 3D Universe called Limb Stick and that would actually have solved this problem in Daz, so there are advancements happening. Another thing is keyframes. If you set a keyframe to an object, move ten frames and move it, it's fine, now go ten more frames and press the keyframe button to keep it there and between frames 10 and 20 the object will move even though you told it to stay put. Or sometimes you have to highlight all the keyframes and make it linear, and then bring it back to TCB to stop weird limb movements that shouldn't be happening. You'll find all of these issues if you start using the program. I love Daz 3D but it's hard for me to say this is a great program to animate in if you're starting out. Had I known about Blender when I started learning 3D animation, I would have used that, hands down, but I learned on Daz and so I use it and I've learned the limitations and some workarounds. As for a computer, yes, to animate in Daz you need something powerful, bare minimum a 2070 graphics card and I only say that because I have a laptop with a 2070 and it does alright. This short that you watched above, this was rendered on a desktop with a 3090 graphics card and it took three weeks to complete. So five minute shorts on a laptop, you might get one pumped out every six to eight weeks. What you really might want to look into if you want to have a more steady stream of videos being released is looking at Blender because Blender 3.0 has made Cycles so much faster and if you use the Diffeomorphic tool the characters look very close to Iray in Daz, or look at Eevee which is close to being real-time rendering. It's not photorealistic, you won't get that with Eevee, but you'll get things rendered out on a laptop no problem. Good luck with your KZbin channel!

[@heeeeeresrossy]

@@BennieWoodell Thank you so much for this info. As far as experience goes, I have played around with several animation programs through the years, such as iClone 7, Crazytalk, Adobe Character Animator, Toon Boom, Moho, and Synfig. So I do have some knowledge of animating online. When I was young, I used to draw actual comics with my friend. We used to style them on the Buster comic, lol. I used to also do stop-motion animation using my parents video camera...It was the type that you had to carry half of the VCR about with you on your shoulder for it to work! It was SO 80's ;) So I've always been artistic, and ever since the internet came about, I've always wanted to try my hand at something else. My biggest problem is that the older I get, the less patience I seem to have. I would start something then give up, which as we all know is not the thing to do if you want to be an animator. I think I'm finally ready to knuckle down & do it this time. I have a middle of the road £600 laptop which I bought 4 years ago. So I know it won't be good enough for Daz. The issue I have with Blender is the steep learning curve. I know that with everything in life, you have to start somewhere. It's just that Blender looks so damn daunting. I do know it does has endless possibilities though. And with real time rendering, it may be the only answer for me & what I have. What are your thoughts on Unreal Engine & iClone, Bennie?