Check her out! Here are three pics of this hot sweet redhead pinup girl with ginormous titties. I’m also going to redo these in postwork, see what my new style needs to be.
I’ll do an OLD then a NEW, one after the other, so you can compare.
So what do you think? I think I’m still content using Darthhell’s old tips and tricks on my newer images. I’m not completely happy with Daz Studio by the way. Not for a second. Sometimes when I’m in there and moving things around, I miss Poser so badly. And when I’m shopping or clearing out my wishlist at Renderosity, removing all the Poser or V4 based items, I have so much guilt. I swore I’d never use Daz. Now I beat myself up for it because who are we if we don’t stick to our principles??
Anyway. Ahem. Sniff sniff. Still making pinups. And working on an amazing DireLilith comic, slowly buying the products I will need for it. That demon baby you see in my new signature – what do you think about it? It’s relevant 😉 Something about demon babies…I dunno…Ever see Rosemary’s Baby? Or the recent Immaculate? Good stuff!
So remember how long ago I had that problem with shadows, and I kinda just…gave it up? Well I’m trying again.
So far I’ve gone through each of the lights in my i13 Pro Light Ease sphere’s set and turned on and off shadows, turned shadow intensity to 5 just to test, turned the blur thing up to 0.5. Gotten nothing but lots of darkness! Not the kinda shadow I’m going for.
I found this explanatory website – Light Properties – which is helpful but really, it’s not helping ME resolve this issue. My buddy balthazarbludd said to check the set to see if it had shadows. Well apparently my props in this particular scene have no properties in their properties tab – which is where the shadow settings are kept. So. Nope.
This is pretty frustrating. I really want to go to Renderosity’s forums and ask for assistance but I’ve done that before and gotten nothing. I really need someone to hold my hand and just point shite out to me and say, click that…now that…okay now type that. And BOOM, have it done. Ya know? I don’t need to build character around this, I don’t believe. Sigh.
I see their pictures. I see the work they do. And I know I could do the same. I could maybe even do better.
And one of my favourite artists, Studio AD, made the switch. I was sure he never would but he did. And he’s fine with it. The switch was pretty easy for him.
So. I guess it’s my turn. This is me, downloading “Daz Central” right now. Even saying that, typing that, makes me friggin’ cringe. Ugh!
The reason I despise Daz so much is because they are like drug dealers. They created this amazing figure, namely Victoria 4, that I spent honestly thousands of dollars on getting content for over the last what, decade?? Then they upgraded her several times, but no one bit. Cuz we all loved V4 so much – and still do! But then they made another amazing figure named Genesis 3. And…if you were smart, you could get that to work in your Poser program, the program I use.
Then…they made Genesis 8….and it’s fucking amazing.
But they didn’t make it work in Poser.
Could they have? Damned straight. How do I know? Because MANY merchants at Renderosity.com make content that fits both V4 AND G8F (Genesis 8 female). So if a merchant can do it, Daz could have too, with all their tech and coders and the like. But you see, Daz decided they wanted their own 3D program. And though it takes V4, they wanted to corner the market. They made it so that if you wanted to use G8 series, you had to use it in Daz Studio.
Daz Studio itself is free. So is Genesis. But…content? And the learning curve? Harsh.
I invested in Victoria. I made my avatar, all my favourite WoW OCs, all my sexy times. I used V4. I could and do still use her! So why do I need to use G8 anyway?
Because. This.
And this.
This.
This…*drools*…
OMG THIS!
This!
See what I mean? Do you SEE? Imagine if ~I~ had these characters? Imagine the sexiness I could make?!?! I ought to be playing with this hotness!
The 3D world lost two powerhouse designers recently with the deaths of Lisa Buckalew and Diane Griffith. While these women may not be household names to many Poser users, their impacts in the world of digital art are felt daily.
Griffith is better known to the Renderosity community as long-time vendor DTHUREGRIF opened the first store on the site and Buckalew built on that foundation as a co-founder of HiveWire3D.
“Without the work of Lisa and Diane, there would be no marketplace for high-quality, third-party content. Separately they worked to lay the foundation that allowed Poser to flourish and its community of users to grow,” said Michelle Willard, Poser Software marketing manager.
Griffith was one of the first members when she joined Renderosity in March 1999 and was the first vendor on the site when she offered her first product about a year later.
In 1999, Griffin was using Poser as a reference tool in her art. At the same time, a group of programmers in Tennessee decided they wanted to create a community where people interested in 3D modeling could discuss ideas and share their work. It being the time before Google, she had to look in books or find other users to answer her questions about Poser.
“I had a question the manual couldn’t answer and found Poser Forum,” she said in a 2017 interview with Renderosity Magazine. “I later found Renderosity and ended up becoming part of the community. I started designing characters around 2000 and have been at it ever since.”
Back when she joined Renderosity didn’t have vendors or even a marketplace. It was a forum for Poser users to exchange ideas and advice. But that changed when Griffin with fellow Poser creators artists Jack Kammerer and Ed Arsenault started the first store on the site and offered the first products for sale.
“That seems like a million years and many lifetimes ago,” Griffith said in 2017.
After her success at Renderosity, Griffien launched her own websites and 3D product marketplace over the years, but she would always find her way back to the Renderosity community. And she never stopped creating 3D products, having released her last character on Jan. 19. Find more of Griffith’s products in her store.
Buckalew built on the thriving marketplace for third-party content that Griffith helped create. After working for DAZ Studio, she helped Chris Creek found HiveWire3D.
Known for her botanical products, Buckalew worked for DAZ Studio leading its Platinum Club for 10 years before venturing out with Creek to form HiveWire3D, which tried to bridge the gap between Poser and DAZ with the Dawn, Dusk and Baby Luna figures along with other high-quality 3D products, such as human and animal models that were created by talented designers like Ken Gilliland (Songbird ReMix), Nature’s Wonders and animal texture maps by CWRW.
Buckalew said in an interview with Renderosity Magazine that she and Creek sought to build a bigger 3D art community that was based on more than the program you use. HiveWire3D has five guiding principles. She called “the 5 Cs:” Create, Commit, Communicate, Collaborate and Care.”
She explained the Cs are all equal but to “Collaborate” will help the industry as a whole. That’s why HiveWire3D worked with Renderosity in the past few years to create a more inclusive market.
“We see this partnership as a way to gain more exposure for our products, which is not only a benefit to HiveWire 3D but to all who support the content we create,” Buckalew said. “Our Collaboration with Renderosity is an example of how our commitment, combined with clear and open communication, has created a new opportunity for everyone involved.”
Creek said this reflected Buckalew’s personal philosophy as well.
“We are all better off for having known Lisa and being associated with her …” Creek said. “We all mourn the heavy loss of our HiveWire QueenBee.”
Buckalew, who had been struggling with health issues for a few months died on Feb. 20, after she underwent another surgery that “was just too much stress on her fragile body,” Creek said in a post on Facebook.
“Our Lisa was and is special, full of life with a deep love of her family and this 3D family as well. All of you meant so much to her,” Creek wrote.
