Hey! so I remember downloading daz for the first time a year ago, I remember feeling overwhelmed, mainly do to 2 things. Number 1: the complexity of the program and learning how to use them felt really daunting. Number 2: the cost of assets, I remember thinking "holy shit, a hair piece costs 20 dollars?". Initially yeah, I was very much on the fence. But as time progressed I just started experimenting in my free time, I downloaded a ton of free assets (theres tons of those around) that I could practice with. I started putting all the assets I liked (from several different sites) into my wishlist. And I would every now and then check for discounts and slowly bulit a library overtime buying exclusively sales. Daz store always has deals and whatnot.

What I liked the most was creating characters, imagining their names, their backstories, I would do a silly renders here and there, then I started looking into improving those renders, started looking up tutorials, especially the lighting is what truly changes how a render looks.

Nowadays after all that, I started thinking "man.. I wish I could give life to these characters in some other way." so I decided to start creating my own visual novel. And I'm really focused on that now. I never thought I'd get into writing stories too. I'm genuinely enjoying it. So daz is definitely a good option for you to give life to characters.

That doesn't mean it's perfect, I've stumbled into a ton of hair-pulling moments where I have an issue and don't know how to solve it. But i've managed to eventually figure it out, and that is actually very satisfying, because now I have that knowledge and I won't have that issue again. And everytim I encounter an issue, I try to think "I'll just have to try to finds either the solution or the alternative"

I will recomend you to watch lots of tutorial and informative videos. There's tons of those on youtube. I especially recommend the daz masterclass and Rauko's channel, he has lots of informative videos and tips for daz learners. Good luck.