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Exciting News! 🚀 Today, we are delighted to announce the official launch of Daz AI Studio, an image generator that transforms simple text prompts into Daz-style 2D visuals. Whether you're a seasoned AI user or a beginner, Daz AI Studio is designed to make the image creation process easy. The built-in prompts and user-friendly interface ensure you can effortlessly generate high-quality, realistic images that closely resemble Daz's signature render style. We extend our deepest gratitude to our exceptional team of dedicated employees whose hard work and commitment have brought this innovative project to life. We would also like to thank Stability AI for our strategic partnership, allowing us to combine forces to enhance the capabilities of AI Studio. We're committed to finding ways for generative AI to be a positive for artists. Daz has always been about making digital art more welcoming. We're working directly with Daz Artists as our partners, and we're working on unique ways to continue providing benefits for our artistic community. We are excited about the next phase - where we’re going to be offering this solution for the hundreds of Daz Published Artists as a way for them to monetize their work. Check it out here: daz3d.com/ai Stay tuned for more exciting developments on our AI journey. Happy creating! #DazAIStudio Cleo McGee Scott Trowbridge Abdul Salam James Thornton Matt Wilburn Ty Duperron Preston Woo Jesse Janzer Steve Spencer Tory Bryant Latonya Howell, SHRM-CP Richard Cust Mayra Penaranda Nate Thornton Chris Page Andy Muth Eric Sellors Loren M.

Transforming 3D Creation: The Power of YellowSculpt We're excited to share a fantastic article by Jon Peddie Research that dives deep into how Yellow is advancing the 3D creative process with our innovative product, YellowSculpt. By simply typing a description, artists can now create pre-rigged, animatable 3D characters ready for integration into top game engines and 3D software. 🚀 A special shout-out to our wonderful data partners at Tafi for supporting us on this journey. 🔗 Read the full story here 👇 #3DArt #GenerativeAI

Today A16Z GAMES is thrilled to lead the $5M seed round for Yellow, who's revolutionizing 3D character creation with generative AI and is developed by a team of top academics. Despite rapid progress in 2D image generation, 3D has remained stubbornly difficult and expensive due to challenges like maintaining clean topology (e.g. water-tight meshes) and requiring numerous intermediate representations (meshes, UV maps, textures, rigs). This complexity makes high-quality 3D incredibly time- and skill-intensive, with top-tier character models taking weeks and costing upwards of $10K. Generative AI hopes to democratize this process by reducing the costs and skill needed to create commercial quality characters. When we first met Yellow's founder, CEO Mandeep Waraich, we were astounded by his infectious energy and drive.. As the former Head of CoreML and Large Models at Google, Mandeep's deep learning expertise and passion for the arts made him the ideal fit for this challenge. Yellow is also developed alongside a team of top academics like: Vincent Sitzmann, from MIT's Scene Representation Group, Christian Rupprecht, who's an Associate Professor at Oxford, and Ludwig Schmidt, who's an acting Assistant Professor in Stanford's Computer Vision Group. What sets Yellow apart is their focus on empowering human creativity through AI. Rather than aiming for pure automation, they're building tools that amplify today's 3D artists while making character creation accessible to all. So, we're thrilled to support Yellow on their journey. You can find: - their website here: yellow3d.com - Their partnership with Tafi: https://lnkd.in/eVUxJtgr - Or our blog post: https://lnkd.in/eebqXpUi The future is bright... and Yellow 🟨

Incredibly gratifying to see our team Yellow's hard work - in bringing professional grade 3D AI creativity tools to the gaming, media and entertainment industries - manifest in the form of our first product YellowSculpt. Yellow was started with a vision to amplify and accelerate human creativity and expression through magical new tools and products. YellowSculpt is our first step in that direction. YellowSculpt enables anyone to generate a pre-rigged, UV-unwrapped humanoid mesh with perfect topology from a single text prompt in just a few minutes. Importantly, this is not just a black-box AI generation, but a sophisticated tool with editability and control! You can use these character meshes in game design, world building or creative storytelling. We've released the product to select customers and game studios for now, and will be bringing it to several game design engines, 3D authoring tools and developer platforms in near future. We'll also be extending YellowSculpt, which today generates humanoid characters, to fantasy characters, as well as generating lifelike expressions and motion to these characters. These are building blocks of a future where anyone can freely imagine and express their innate creativity. 🪄✨ This journey is made joyful and inspiring by our incredible teammates at Yellow - it's not an overstatement to say that every single day is a source of inspiration, growth, joy and creativity with you all. We are fortunate to have some of the most generous and supportive investors at Andreessen Horowitz that one can ask for. Jonathan Lai, Jack Soslow and Troy Kirwin - thank you for the multiplicative effect that you've had on our journey so far! And thank you Ben Horowitz and Martin Casado for your continued mentorship and good spirits. Also massive thanks to our flagship 3D studio partners Tafi who were the first to place trust in Yellow and our vision. We're delighted to be on this inspiring and joyful journey with you all! Here's to a bright and sunshine future for all! ☀️💛

Unveiling the Future of 3D Creativity using AI: Yellow’s Pioneering Approach We're thrilled to announce Yellow's strides in 3D technology with the launch of our first product, YellowSculpt! 🚀 Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Yellow is set to redefine artistic expression with AI. Discover how we're making professional-grade 3D creation accessible to all, and pushing the boundaries of innovation, together with academic leaders from MIT, Oxford and Stanford and technical experts from Google, Unity and Roblox. Join us in shaping a bright new future for 3D creativity! 🔗 Read more about our journey and groundbreaking technology in our latest blog post. https://lnkd.in/gefsGuNb

Remember Coca-Cola's Masterpiece advert that landed on our screens last year? If so you'll know why it caught the eye of millions of viewers globally, if not, you can still experience the Real Magic here https://lnkd.in/eNpuP6_c In addition to the advert Coca-Cola released a series of Masterpiece inspired digital collectables. Check out the handy work of Tafi in the 'making of...' video which they used a couple of elements from Bridgeman Images along with versions of Van Gogh's Bedroom, Vermeer's Girl With A Pearl Earring and Munch's The Scream from our collection. Enjoy... #creative #content #imagelicensing #digitalcollectable #nfts

We love coming together as a team to help our community and build better relationships with each other while we do it! Participating in local volunteer efforts is dear to us as a company and we believe taking the time to give back helps our team be more productive and mindful.

Incredible new animation plug-in for Daz Studio made by the talented crew at HEAT! We're excited to see the amazing 3D art that will be born from this new era of animation for Daz 3D. 🎉

We’re excited to see new improvements and innovations becoming a reality over at Daz 3D! Check out the latest Daz Studio update which includes NVIDIA’s OmniHair Shader - a powerful way of rendering enhanced hair, fur, and fiber effects.

Tune in and listen to our CFO/CSO Preston Woo talk about AI and startups!