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If anyone's interested, I posted a bunch of inane "one page" cartoons inspired by my senior citizen neighbors.
I assemble them with DAZ Studio and Comic Life 3. Then I print them out and show to my "100 or so" friends.
They really love to see cartoons centered around Seniors.
Oh I bought the Cat Zeus and some related stuff. I also bought the DAZ House cat and related content.
It might take me awhile to make more art.
I'm having trouble with my vision. I get strong sunlight coming through my curtains. I have to wait a month for an eye doctor appointment.
Sleep in the day; render at night?
Get blackout shades or curtains?
I've asked for new blackout curtains and blinds.
We're getting ready for a big HUD inspection of our building in May.
Drapes might be delayed a bit.
I get up during the day so I can visit with my friends around lunch time.
Sorry, could not resist...
Everyone looks very cheerful, even though they almost got badly injured. Kind of like "Ooh look there's an unexploded ordnance form WWII, let's throw bricks at it an see if it goes off."
@ Artini: Yep, it was surprisingly like that.
Regards,
Richard
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I beg your pardon. I am innocent.
Yah, that's what all the cats claim.
He was with me.
That alibi is unconvincing, Ron. I don't see him there. Are you sure you know where he is at all times? Maybe he sneaks out while you are napping. Just sayin'. Could be.
So I guess I can't upload any images here anymore?
My dog Bandit had a lot of "fringe." You can see the tuft of hair (fringe) coming out of his chest.
He had a large amount of fringe coming out the back of his legs, and his rump.
He looked so skinny when he was wet. He didn't mind taking a bath.
He didn't need many baths because I kept him mostly inside or away from stinky stuff.
I had him for 17 years. He was 9 years old when this photo was taken.
17 years is a good long dog life. I see those fur fringes on him.
That is a good lifespan for a dog. Our little dog, Andrew, is 15 years and 4 months. However, we will be lucky if he reaches 16.
cjfea, best wishes.
Working for me, but with all the Cloudflare gateway errors I wouldn't be surprised if the upload issue had resurfaced as well. (Lest anyone get their hopes up I should point out that the image si from an older version of the forums, not a sneak peek at a newer iteration.)
Edit: Fixed for now.
It still won't upload the image for me. It just says Uploading forever. The image is the normal size I render of you (2000 by 1500) and is under 2 MB in file size. These images normally upload in a few seconds. I'll have to try another day. Hopefully Daz will fix the forum again. The Gateway Errors are preventing me from even reading messages most of the time.
You will have to stay in the funnel a little longer, I guess. At least both ends are open so you can breathe.
One of our cats got into a staring match with a marrow. I mean its cylindrical, it swells out at the back, and area where the stalk attached is a bit like a face.
I wonder if there's a ranking of vegetable scaryness for cats, like 'Leek' that's fine, 'Melon' that's sort of ok, 'Corgette' um a bit close for comfort, 'Cucumber' NOPE, 'Peapod' Yup that's no problem...
Also, what about the big cats? If you were to prod a huge lion with a cucumber would it be upset? Would you survive? I mean, we know what happened to Albert in Albert and the Lion, and that was just a stick ( albeit it had a horse's head handle which might be triggering for a big cat ). And is it only cats that suffer from Cucurbitophobia ( had to look that one up ), what about Owls?? Doesn't the ancient book of Celts say "Suffer Ye Not Thine Owle Be Proddeth With An Cucumbre".?
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Yeah, I'd buy that for a dollar.
I've got a crush on a lady friend who already has a boyfriend.
She's allergic to cats also.
I had a crush on another woman who thought the dog in my painting was a cow.
It is the more common spelling, not surprising as it is originally from the farm or village by the hazel trees.
I'll probably start spelling it wrong now by mistake. You know, once you get a thought in your head, you can't get it out. Maybe the spelling with the Z is his "stage name", to preserve his anonymity, so he isn't hounded by paparazzi and such. It is bad enough that the police are after him for causing several damaging explosions around town. Of course, slapping a big picture of himself and Lola on the billboard kind of counteracts that anonymity. And the spelling is fixed now, so out goes that whole theory.
Barbult, I'm impressed by the way you are able to quickly produce renders to follow a story. I've though about doing some sort of 'comic' style story several times, but never really got going.
I think I may have asked before, but my poor memory fails me on recalling:-
Let's say I have story in mind, that I think might work and it's going to be a mixture of renders and text. I would probably start by doing some test renders to see if I'm inspired by the results, to continue and expand them into some sequence. I feel that if I start by creating renders of key points in the story, I will most likely have to redo them in the light of changing ideas that emerge as I think about the whole project more. Also some ideas that I have may prove impossible to render to an acceptable standard ( for me ), so I might need to change the story to fit what I am able to render.. I think I would want the freedom for the story to take its own course rather than having everything decided before starting work on it.
I'm probably overthinking the whole thing, I do tend to do that.
I don't start out with a story idea. I usually just do a render based on some comment someone posted, or some product I purchased and want to use. Then, if I work Richard Haseltine into to render, I post it here. From there it grows and grows as people comment or I have a follow on idea. Here are some examples:
I rendered an image of a bunch of LowPi characters on horses, because I was playing with LowPi. Richard wasn't even in the image. Then someone commented that they looked like they were chasing someone or something. So, of course I figured they must be chasing Richard Haseltine. From there it grew into the whole story of the posse infiltration and then Miss Kitty and the 5 Tom kittens, and then Jack repairing Richards broken horse, and then Richard giving the horse to Milly, and then the Toms finding new homes, etc. None of that was preplanned. It all grew organically from reader responses, one render after another.
Ron Knights mentioned that it was his birthday. So I rendered Richard buying him a birthday cake. Pretty soon we have a giant BBQ scene followed by explosions, destruction, and a police lineup. That was never my initial idea, it grew out of people's comments.
The fun and challenge comes from NOT having a plan to start with.
Ah ok thanks, so I guess you save each scene that you render, so that you can go back, edit it, and re-render if you want to change an element? Also I guess you have saved scene subsets, or some other method, for saving regular occuring characters or scene elements?
I have to admit I have got into the bad habit of using the 'perspective view' camera and rotating and traversing it until I get a viewpoint that looks pleasing, doing a render, and then moving to a new viewpoint. While this is quick and easy it means I can't recreate any previous render exactly, since the perspective camera's settings aren't saved.
Oh yes, I always save versions of the scenes as I work on them. I seldom go back after posting, but this time I just reopened the street scene and replaced Lola and Richard with the evil pumpkin carrot, replaced the LowPi witness with a real G8 I could pose and put an expression on, added the billboards and voila, there was the next render. This render includes a combination of several responses to the previous render.
Yes, I have scene subsets that I merge into scenes. I have Richard, Lola, Jack, Rob, Milly, and Ron, to mention a few. That way I can maintain consistency in their appearance without having to start over remembering how I concocted the character. I might just change their clothes, pose, hair, etc. to suit the new scene. Milly is a child, so she has to age a bit as we go along.