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Kevin Rye

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DAZ 3D's Big Cats 2

DAZ 3D just released some Big Cats! They look pretty cool. It’s normally $40 bucks for the whole set, but I got it for only $19.58 with my Platinum Club savings and new release discount.

For $20 bucks, you sure get a ton of cats! Seven in all: Cheetah, Jaguar, Leopard, Lion, Puma, Saber Tooth, and Tiger. You also get a ton of morphs and poses.

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Selecting the “Big Cat 2” actor drops in a big cat. From there you can add morphs, hair, etc.

big cat 2_1

Or you can just choose one of the presets:

Cheetah
cheetah 1
Jaguar
jaguar 1
Leopard
leopard 1
Lion
lion with dark main 1
Puma
puma 1
Saber Tooth
sabertooth 1
Tiger
tiger 1
There’s a bunch of poses to choose from; everything from sitting to pouncing.
lion 2
tiger 2
Let’s drop Victoria in there and see how big they are compared to people. Yup, pretty life-sized!

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Very nice. It’s going to be fun having some big cats in my renders!

tiger 4

I don’t know what the deal is with the crazy render times, but this 620x620 render took 4 hours! I’m going to have to play with my settings to speed things up.

V6 and lion 3

Maybe it’s just the lion’s mane, because the tiger and sabertooth only took about 15 minutes

M6 and sabertooth 4

In any case, it looks cool. Maybe even with some cool shaders, they’ll make for some cool statues too.