High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! DAZ Studio is a 3D figure illustration/animation application released by DAZ 3D Inc. It is compatible with most files intended for use by Poser. It is available free of charge (registration required). Version 1.0 was released in Fall 2005. Version 4.0.0.335 is the current release as of June 29, 2011 . Until version 1.7 it was officially known as DAZ|Studio.