Daz AI Studio Launched... It Did Not Go Well

What do you get when you cross Daz 3D Characters with Stability AI's Stable Diffusion generative AI? Well... a tire fire seems like the most obvious answer.

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[deastman]

That Victoria cartwheel image should be their new splash screen! 😂

[ExumBron]

Daz has a cool base of tools for creating characters and clothes library and they need to become competitors with CC4 and iclone and improve export to game engines, but they have been constantly going wrong for several years

[hardwiretoo]

They missed the mark so hard on this one they made Ferdinand Magellan look like he was using google maps and GPS.

[seto]

I understand that AI art has developed a rather poor reputation, but even by the standards of AI art this is utterly abysmal.

Beyond the fact that I don't know why anybody would want to generate what amount to generic stock photos of 3D chatacters, the results are significantly worse than anything that's been released for Stable Diffusion in the past 2 years (likely due to the incredibly limited data set), the generation time is insanely slow, there is almost no fine tuning, and it is rather expensive for what you're getting compared to it's competitors.

[Elwaves]

The negative reactions are valid IMO. I gave this a quick go and even for a first, initial release it was terrible and incredibly lacking. There's certainly nothing that makes it worth the sub price. If this was to use the figures you already own, including custom characters, all within Daz Studio itself then it could've been really useful. Yet it appears to me that you'll need to re-buy characters you already own (not sure of the price) to use them with this.
Mike: There's an option for 1-4 images per generation on the left.

[worldofzend]

This software has so much potential with their models for animation, instead of working on that, they are releasing some garbage quick buck grabbing addons. On the other hand 3rd party software's like Reallusion getting the market on quick animated game ready characters. I guess Daz3d will never learn from this and instead going to stay as a lazy company that relies on still image rendering and let their model uses on steam porn games. Disappointed.

[Clawthorne]

As someone with the "Return Youtube Dislikes" addon, I can confirm that as of writing this comment, that video has 137 likes and 320 dislikes.
It's not 100% accurate obviously, but it is one of the world's most popular addon so the data should be reasonably accurate.

[Kyle-qnci]

I haven't thought about Bryce in ages, that was the first 3d software I ever used back in the late 90s

[devrandvar]

Just Why? There are some genuinely cool things that they could have done with AI. Like they could have made some sort of prompt based AI system for DAZ studio where users could put in a prompt and it would try to make a 3d model for them using DAZ's models and morphs. Or a system that attempts to pose a 3d model based on prompts. But I guess those would take actual effort, this looks like something that one guy with access to DAZ's stuff and a reasonable knowledge of SD could make in a day.

[erictrinque]

dude what was that last gen... nightmare fuel doesnt even begin to describe it

[Xotchkass]

So it's just a custom SD checkpoint? Damn, when I heard announce I thought they wanted to make AI for creating/modifying character models.

[sharkinahat]

Garbage in, garbage out.
You feed the AI generic, pre-made, out-of-the-box assets in generic, pre-made, out-of-the-box poses, rendered at mediocre, stuck-in-2010-CGI quality with default pre-made, out-of-the-box lights and materials, you'll get mediocre, generic looking images... but with AI jank.
Big L.

[kevindavis]

There is some merit to this idea. Having the same character in your game and in your AI art seem useful. The issue is that the results are so bad. Also, Steam does not allow games to be published on their store that use AI art. Who is going to use this?

[dchick]

This is for Daz users who don't customize their characters and don't want to learn lighting. Sigh.

[FireFox]

You know, for just about 2 hours worth of work and research you can have something significantly better than this on your home computer. Like I can get an AI image generator up and running with 6 gigs of vram (Less vram just means slower). All you need is Python, git, comfy ui, 2 checkpoint models (one to make the average the other to fix it || unless you're using SDXL), and a more details LoRA and with a midrange computer you can make something significantly better is there anything daz can put out.
Now I know some of you are thinking this is a lazy cash grab that Daz did and you're right, I just wanted you to know how lazy.

[tlilmiztli]

Every creative person absolutely loves idea of taking away whole fun of creating something and replacing it with "generate" button. Right? RIGHT? :D Some really clueless people are in head of these companies.

[egretfx]

why should I be using this then instead of midjourney if it has come to that...this is stupid!

[DavidWiles]

On Midjourney you can add "DAZ Studio Render" into your prompt and get a very DAZ-like image.

[IsisRae]

When I first checked it out I was really excited thiking that I would be able to take my personal characters and scenes and create from that or even animate from what I uploaded. That would be cool.

[ethanissupercool]

I always like prototyping reverse engineered software and tools, of course, I can only do it legally, aka a clean room…

For a while now I always wanted to do the same for Daz, but I always didn’t want to do it cause I thought they weren’t a big company and it would be kinda scummy

This video made me change my mind lol

Now to only figure out a way to reverse it legally… only issue is that all models are based on genesis… a model… how can I recreate it without braking laws…


I’ll figure it out, if I found a solution for Unreal Engine I’m sure I’ll figure out some loop hole… or maybe I’ll make an original character creator myself lol. Not trying to be mean but makehuman isn’t the most realistic 😂