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WillowRaven
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The vendor lists Karissa Hair at the top of the products used. Looks like they used it and dForced it (since none of the promos use it as it comes).
Awe ... man ... they are going to make me learn dforce.
Haha, that's what I was thinking...actually just tried by adding dforce to the hair, upping the collusion to 9 and it didn't turn out too bad..didn't run the full sim, stopped at about 20 and it gave the hair a nice soft looser feel ;)
I'm still back in the dark ages using 4.7 ... first, because I really don't have time to learn a new interface (they change how everything looked with 4.8) an I wasn't going near genesis until they stopped looking like they had no bones. Only not with V8 am I being tempted, but that would mean buying a bunch of stuff I really can't afford. And Iray, to me, looks great for some scenes, but not really what I need for my purposes, so again, no need to upgrade. I've been happy with 4.7 and v4/m4 as long as I could still drape dynamic clothing. So learning the latest versions wasn't really tempting until now. The ability to make the hair hang more realistically is definitely tempting.
WillowRaven, I know what you mean it is expensive and you sound like you know what you want out of the program. Even though I managed to fiddle with the hair and the result was passable with some touch up work in ps after waiting 20 mins for a very simple render..I wouldn't splurge. I loathe the long render times with Iray and I understand some love going for reality but it's not what I'm looking to achieve. In Poser a render is finished before I can make a cuppa, a render yesterday in Iray took 8 mindnumbing hours before I could get it into ps, a creative dampener!..My dearest wish is for Poser and Daz to work together without jumping through hoops, but I don't think it will ever happen.
Yeah ... My goal isn't photo-realism, either. As a book cover artist, I'm usually going out of my way not to be photo-realistic, lol. As long as I can get clothes to drape naturally, I can usually fake the hair well enough for my needs. So unless something is going to be a game-changer, upgrading just isn't worth it to me.
I admire your ability to work in Poser, too. I tried buying an older copy once. All I could figure out how to do was open the program, lol. Anything further was too time-consuming to learn, lol. If I can't figure something out in ten minutes, it's taking too long and I resort to a faster means. I have some patience issues.
I don't know if this will be of any benefit as far as time goes for you, but when I have to render a 5000-pixel wide scene, it's faster if I put up the thirds guide and spot render each section, with a little overlap, of each 'section as a .png file. It seems to take less time, overall and doesn't heat up my computer as much. Do you think that would work for you?
Great work and I do much the same illustrative work although I shy away from bookcovers, found writers too much of a headache... lol!
Thanks for the tip, my workflow is similar in that I do multiple renders knowing which ones I can touch up in ps, or will be in the background and what will need to be a clean crisp render...I'll give the spot render sections a go ;)
Thank you. And OMG ... lol ... I've never heard truer words spoken, lol. Some authors can be a PITA, but a lot of them have become good friends, too.
I started out as a traditional artist illustrating children's books, but my whole reason for going to art school was to create sci-fi and fantasy book covers. But the industry changed so much from when I went to school until I finally got off my behind and really started approaching novelists and publishers, that the old way of painting on canvas then photographing the art and submitting slides to publishers was now all digitized or manipulated stock photos. Scanned colored pencil drawings were fine for picture books, but not novels. So I decided to crawl out of the stone-age and read somewhere about Poser. I knew that was too expensive for a beginner who'd never touched a 3D program before and didn't know if I could adapt. Then someone told me about Daz. I think it was Daz 3 when I started. It was the right price (free), so I fiddled with it for a couple years before I dared publish anything with it, lol. Took a while to learn enough not to look like a really bad video game screen-shot, lol.
I'd love to see some of your work. If not for books, where do you sell your work? As prints?
lol! They can be trying..but I've made friends of them too and totally understand where they're coming from, the book is their baby but nothing would entice me to ever do bookcovers..although I never went looking for them. Quite happy for them to use an existing artwork and use it for a book cover but at this stage in life I really can't be bothered working to a brief..spent too many years doing just that ;) I injured my left hand and found painting for any length of time too demanding and thought Daz and Poser would be a good creative outlet and basis to start before working in ps.
I know what you mean about an injury leading you to the digital medium. About the same time I found Daz, my own health was not allowing me to sit at the drawing table for hours on end like I used to. But sitting in my bed on a laptop was doable, lol. So I found Daz just in time.
Looking at your artwork ... It's gorgeous. I can't believe some of these are in Daz or Poser. Are the Iray or 3DL or some other render engine?
Thanks Willow, a mixure, some are Daz Iray others Poser all with a lot of work in ps, because ps is my happy place lol!
Mine, too. I love me some Photoshop, lol. And wings on 'The Raven' ... are those models or pure photoshop? OK ... I'm gonna beg you for a tutorial on fetlocks. I've tried and mine look ridiculous, lol. Is the dress on Wakan Taka The Great spirit dynamic? You did an amazing job on so many of these. I need to step up my game!!!
The Wings are the Morningstar wings, very nice morphs and easy to work with here https://www.daz3d.com/morning-star-wings-for-genesis-3-and-8-female-s
Haha..fetlocks, painting and more painting...Antje over at the other place not sure if I can post link) has some really nice hair and fur brushes, I've had them for so many years and they the best I've come across, takes a bit of patience and little learning curve but you can achieve gorgeous results..$5 too..best investment ever ;)
Waken Taka, is just just cheyanne for V4 and Namid textures with a lot of ps cutting and pasting...love the old V4 clothing still find MFD a quick go-to and easy as a base to later add things to it in ps.
Thanks so much Willow :)
OK ... The wings are definitely a must-have having seen your gallery. The promos alone wouldn't have sold me. Thanks for all of the info. :)