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I wish i'd given more thought to mine ,it was decided on the spur of a moment while signing up to renderosity..was either going to be stonemason or parkdrive ,which was the brand of fags on the desk at the time..stonemason was what I was doing for a dayjob..so years later it's now a brand I'm stuck with :\
I think its a good brand, it fits to the things you make, one can see how you chiseled on the details
I agree; a Stonemason product is quite often worth the price, especially if it's something like Urban Sprawl 3 (or any of the Urban Sprawl sets).
Ah, I love that story! I love that you answered your daughter's little letters to the fairies, too! :)
Mine has multiple association levels to it.
I choose Renomista as is the name I use in all kind of games almost allways (I very often play female characters)
The name comes from a female AD&D paladin I played in my early youth.
The name is based on the (somewhat old fashioned) german word "Renomist" which is best (but not exactly) translated to "boaster".
The idea to that comes from a lovely poem by the german children author Erich Kästner:
Die Sache mit den Klößen
Der Peter war ein Renommist.
Ihr wißt vielleicht nicht, was das ist.
Ein Renommist, das ist ein Mann,
der viel verspricht und wenig kann.
Wer fragte: „Wie weit springst du, Peter?“
bekam zur Antwort: „Sieben Meter.“
In Wirklichkeit – Kurt hat´s gesehn –
sprang Peter bloß drei Meter zehn.
So war es immer: Peter log,
daß sich der stärkste Balken bog.
Und was das Schlimmste daran war:
Er glaubte seine Lügen gar!
Als man einmal vom Essen sprach,
da dachte Peter lange nach.
Dann sagte er mit stiller Größe:
„Ich esse manchmal dreißig Klöße.“
Die anderen Kinder lachten sehr,
doch Peter sprach: „Wenn nicht noch mehr!“
„Nun gut,“ rief Kurt, „wir wollen wetten!“
(Wenn sie das bloß gelassen hätten.)
Der Preis bestand, besprachen sie,
in einer Taschenbatterie.
Die Köchin von Kurts Eltern kochte
die Klöße, wenn sie´s auch nicht mochte.
Kurts Eltern waren ausgegangen.
So wurde endlich angefangen,
Vom ersten bis zum fünften Kloß,
da war noch nichts Besondres los.
Die anderen Kinder saßen stumm
um Peter und die Klöße rum.
Beim siebenten und achten Stück
bemerkte Kurt: „Er wird schon dick.“
Beim zehnten Kloß ward Peter weiß
und dachte: Kurt erhält den Preis.
Ihm war ganz schlecht, doch tat er heiter
und aß, als ob´s ihm schmeckte, weiter.
Er schob die Klöße in den Mund
und wurde langsam kugelrund.
Der Anzug wurde langsam knapp.
Die Knöpfe sprangen alle ab.
Die Augen quollen aus dem Kopf.
Doch griff er tapfer in den Topf.
Nach fünfzehn Klößen endlich sank
er stöhnend von der Küchenbank.
Die Köchin Hildegard erschrak,
als er so still am Boden lag.
Dann fing er gräßlich an zu husten,
daß sie den Doktor holen mußten.
„Um Gottes willen“, rief er aus,
„der Junge muß ins Krankenhaus.“
Vier Klöße steckten noch im Schlund.
Das war natürlich ungesund.
Mit Schmerzen und für teueres Geld
ward Peter wiederhergestellt.
Das Renommieren hat zu Zeiten
auch seine großen Schattenseiten.
Interesting stuff! I loved reading some of the PA stories.
As a simple DA, my own story is really really boring - as you may be able to guess it's just my first name and the initial of my surname. When I first came to DAZ in January 2010 (lured by freebies after getting DS 2.3 on a magazine cover disk) I needed to register, so I just typed my first name - oh dear, someone already had it! So I added an initial and there I was. Less luck on some other sites - I'm variously MelanieL2, MelanieL3 and even MelanieL2010. I only expected to stick around for a couple of months (I have a rather low boredom threshold in many ways) but here I still am 6-and-a-half years later. I really wish I'd taken the time to pick an ineresting name now. (Yes, I know I can change it, but it doesn't seem worth it)
My avatar name is very simple. I wasn't in the mood to be creative so I just said nonesuch00, sort of like the last person to be picked for a team. I have an hobby sort of LLC business that I am working on publishing games for and for that business name and also character name in the games I just use my initials pronounced phonetically which happens to be a common English give name too.
I'm usually known by the name devilsatdusk15, it's just something on this site that I haven't made an effort to change. The name that I'm usually known by, would probably breach Daz terms and condition/terms of service (although I usually shorten that name, so it doesn't make other people feel uncomfortable when they talk to me).
My name (devilsatdusk) was inspired by a video game called "Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening". It's based on two of the main characters (twin brothers), fighting at the top of a huge tower (see pic included). Although, it's nighttime when the first battle occurs, I just thought "dusk" sounded better.
15 is meant to be my "lucky number". But, it isn't lucky for me really.
~Double post. Sorry.~
Ever since I was little in my crib I had lucid dreams, where you know you are dreaming while you are dreaming. I would experiment in my dream states with flying, even jumping out the window through glass from high story buildings, completely confident I was dreaming, to fly with more velocity. I also visited what felt like other dimensions in these dreams and talked to the people there. I experimented a lot in these dream realms, some things felt solid to the touch, other things I could put my hand through, or walk or fly through. Windows, computer and TV screens, mirrors and paintings I discovered were like portals, and I could jump through to other dimensions. Also sometimes I would feel like I'm whooshing out from the top of my head zooming up through stars and galaxies, then would suddenly find myself zooming at warp speed through winding tunnels of colors and sometimes sound, and I could actually feel the G force and it would seem to go on forever until I jumped out through the side of the tunnel into some alternate dimension, always a random, different one. I then became obsessed with learning about quantum physics and out of body experiences. I read a book called "Astral Dynamics" by Robert Bruce and he described my experience flying out the top of my head, zooming up through stars, then going through a winding colored tunnel EXACTLY how I experienced it! He called it "the astral tube method" of astral travel! This was more than a dream if someone else had the exact same experience!!! Anyway, these lucid dreams or astral travel, whatever you choose to believe they are always reminded me of either Alice in Wonderland or The Wizard of Oz and since my real name is Alicia, I went with Wonderland, Alicia in Wonderland... :)
I used to assume you were Filipino, I think ”Kulay" means "color" or "colorful" in Tagalog... So "Colorful Wolf" would be a neat username...
Don't feel bad, I'm not awkward or clumsy, but stuff is always happening to me too... I've had some of the freakiest (comical to others) accidents you could imagine, but so far nothing has killed me completely... But on the flip side I've done some incredibly risky (aka- stupid) things and gotten away with it... So sometimes I think, you can look at it this way... Yeah, you are the one person the random angry badger fell on and that hurt, but perhaps you accumulate some odd kind of karma points in advance, so one day when that out of control wheat thresher runs into the crowd you are in, you are the one person who isn't minced into bite sized chunks... Maybe... I'm hoping... I can't find anything in the manual about it and customer service won't call me back.
Either way, it's a cool username.
This has turned out so much better than I would have thought. :-)
I'm a PA, and my screen name is one I use almost anywhere - though there have been places (kinda rarely) where someone trumped me on it, usually MMO's.
So, back in the late 1980's, I was creating a character for AD&D - a multiclassed half-Elven Fighter/Mage. I had no idea what to name him, but fortunately a supplment for the first edition of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay had a chart of random "Elven" name syllables. I rolled up "And", "Val", and "Ar".
Andvalar? Sounds like an anvil. Nope.
Arandval? Sounds like a comedy team, Ar and Val.
Valarand? Hmm... not TOO bad...
Valandar? PERFECT!
I played that character for YEARS, up until I left for USMC Boot Camp. In the mid-90's, they opened up an Internet section of the MWR building on Camp LeJeune (where I was stationed), so I jumped in feet first. Noticing people were already having problems getting "real name" or "real word" nicks they wanted, I decided to use this nick - and it works. And almost always still works.
In 2000 or so, I discovered Poser, and started using this nick on the various sites at the time. And now Valandar = me. :D
Hows this?...
Right after graduating from Quantico, your first assignment with the FBI was to help transport a bitchy high maintenance former Hollywood makeup artist who had dated an international terrorist and was about turn informant against him and his cell... You and your partner had to get her to Washington DC from California within 36 hours without using your FBI credentials or letting anyone know who she was... Right way at the airport, your partner (a salty old curmudgeon with a heart of gold) gets shot... He warned you it was a set-up because nobody could have known you were there, so now the only way to get there was a wild cross country chase involving a busted up old caprice taxi, a stolen helicopter with no doors (it was being repaired when you crashed through the gates with the taxi and stole it), a brief hobo-like ride through the dessert on a freight train (you both jumped out onto the roof of a boxcar as the chopper got hit by a stinger missile), a crazy casino crashing chase in a stolen Lamborghini, and when the lambo broke down in Texas near a small ranch where the bad guys cornered you, the ranch owner, a crazy old coot just spoiling for an old fashioned gun fight, took a liking to you and decided to help you out... After a huge gun battle with the baddies shooting missiles and hurling grenades willy nilly, the old cowboy tells you he used to be an outlaw but cleaned up his act, used his fortune to make an honest life, but it was kinda boring and now everyone he cared for was gone, and he was dying from... I dunno... Toe fungus cancer?... But he was dying and wanted to go out in a blaze of glory and he would hold them off, so he sent you out on his prize horses while he took out most of the bad guys in his custom armored wheel chair (with dual .50 cal gattling guns) before they eventually got him... Eventually you ended up reaching the gulf coast where you stole a shrimp trawlers, but the bad guys ended up catching you and took you to their base on an abandoned oil rig out at sea... Eventually you escaped, (blowing up the oil rig, while escaping in their helicopter)...(by the way you know how to fly helicopters now... Okay?) anyway, as you fly away from the inferno, the makeup artist tells you she didn't think you'd come back for her... Her whole life everyone abandoned her and you not leaving her there meant a lot to her... She tells you all she ever wanted to do was be a 3D artist, but she ended up in Hollywood instead... You realized you were both really kindred spirits and you promised you wouldn't let anything happen to her... The chopper only had enough gas to make it to... I dunno... A small town in Tennessee, while there you try and grab some food at a local dinner where you stand out like a sore thumb, as you went to pay you notice a TV in back of the cashier and on it your boss... He says something odd that he couldn't have possibly known and you connect him to the bad guys and figure out some conspiracy between him and oil company that owned the rig... In shock you listen to him announcing a reward for the capture of a rouge FBI agent (you) and her terrorist partner (the makeup artist)... You fled in panick, stole a big rig hauling pigs and headed out to DC to deliver her to the one agent you knew you could trust... But on the way you ended up running into heavy police blockades, but using the CB radio you convince hundreds of truckers of the conspiracy and they all start showing up to help you run the blockade... You made it as far as Virginia but finally the convoy is broken and you had to turn lose the hogs in a desperate but effective distraction to escape... You finally make it to a small town just south of the capital where you decided to try and contact an old friend of your father's who used to own a military museum... There you find that he has passed away, but his son a basement dwelling computer hacker with acrophobia tells you he can hack the records of the company and send the data to the media to exonerate you... He tells you to take the old Patton tank he and his dad were restoring and make your way to the capital where you can deliver the makeup artist to your friend and a bunch of trusted agents on your side... So you took the tank and made your way there... Very slowly and miraculously just in the nick of time you arrived at one of the bridges leading into DC... Only to find a gauntlet of snipers and sharpshooters waiting for you... But determined, you set on and made it through and just as the tank finally breaks down, you realize the shooting has stopped... The message has gotten out and you friend has arrived to give orders to not stop you... But as you got out of the tank, your boss showed up and tries to get the police to shoot you, but they refused and you walked up to him and punched him in the face and told him you quit, and he's done....(you also kicked him in the crotch, but that's only in the DVD release), defiantly you walk past him and tell the hair dresser she can go with the good agents now, but suddenly she pushed you down as you ex boss tried to shoot you, instead she took the bullet, saving you... The dozens of sharp shooters, snipers and scores of cops all shoot your ex boss to bits, but it too late for the Diva... She dies telling you, you were he one real and true friend in life... The adventure over you walked off into the sunset... Which was actually the sunrise because it was morning and never looked back... The whole incident was swept under the rug and since people are stupid and forget and two days later Michael Jackson died, nobody really paid attention to your story or the events of that day and everything was quickly forgotten... Except by you... You chose your username to reflect your short but memorable adventure with a very brave and unique artist... Because of her you decided to open up your own helicopter tour service in Hawaii and on the side pursue 3D art while helping out your Ferrari driving detective friend solve crimes in paradise...
That okay?... Feel free to add stuff, I feel it's a little sparse in the action areas and there are no elephant stampedes or circus scenes...
Cheers!
I think I saw that movie!
..hmm I gotta use that for my next Shadowrun character.
If you didn't, I'm sure I did!
@McGyver I think you forgot the flying squirrels! I'm sure there must have been flying squirrels in there somewhere!
...with AK-47s.
Mine isn't really very exciting. Long ago I needed a name for a fantasy football team and everything I was coming up with was already used (or wasn't allowed). I was in the middle of digitizing our music collection and had a big stack of CDs on my desk. Two song titles stuck out, and when stuck together created an unique and interesting sounding name (plus its a bit of a bizarre oddball message and that fits me pretty well). That is how I came up with the on-line persona of InaneGlory (one word, no spaces, capital I, capital G). If I had to do it over would I pick something different? Maybe, I don't really know, after 15 years it's kind of part of me. For better or worse I am InaneGlory and InaneGlory is me.
My mother used to tell me the faeries took her good baby so I was a changeling. Changeling is associated with several books/movies, so I added Chick. I know... boring :D
"mattyman" was taken when I went to get my first email address so I just tossed an X at the end.
Interesting thread. Wish I could say mine has an interesting story behind it, but "argel" is just from sounding out my initials (note it's a soft g) and the 1200 is for the Amiga 1200 computer.
Dazaholic here. I've had this username for a long time in MMORPGs and other things. The spelling is pretty unique, inspired by the Welsh name Llewellyn. As far as I know, I made the name "Llynara" up. I'd never heard it before and have only come across one other Llynara since.
My Llynara is from a long lived, elf-like race, and is a major character in three different series I'm writing (all connected) starting in the Dark Ages and ending up in modern times. I'm actually writing the last series first. She shows up part way through it and is an important character throughout it. The first book will be out next month. My writing is the whole reason I'm here. I'm learning 3D art to create promos, book covers and for character inspiration (of which I've found tons!) It's been a fun journey!
My PA name comes from when I started my Year and A Day training. I needed to come up with a magikal name that fit me, and the numerical value was the same as my name/birthdate numerical value.
Well I'm really into dragons and have a collection of dragon statues, and my first name is Gail (The Gail warnings are out!)....
So, my daughter suggested Dragon Storm. By added the extra 'a', the number of DraagonStorm was equal to my name/birthdate number... And DraagonStorm was born. The extra 'a' also seems to let me use that name with no problem as a username.
I love that story and your shot of Nova! What a beautiful Arabian horse! My family breeds and shows Arabian horses so I grew up around them - magnificent creatures! :)
Fun fact, did you know Patrick Swayze was a fan of Arabian horses and used to show them? :) My aunt's horses where often up against his in shows.
I love your brand name. You're one of the few PAs that I can remember off the top of my head what you make and what products are yours - it just fits so well with what a lot of your products are. :)
Dazaholic here.
My name is a stylized dragon-unicorn hybrid creature which I created for my logo. It was originally pen and ink, but when I joined Daz, I created my first piece of digital art for my avatar:
hahah! Thanks so much for the great story. I'm usually scared of Wall O' Text but I'm glad I read all that. I lost it at "custom armored wheel chair" and it was all down hill from there. lol My husband is trying to watch Ghost Adventures and is wondering why I'm over here in the corner laughing repeatedly. lol
"by the way you know how to fly helicopters now... Okay?" lol I can live with that. :) I'm kind of impressed that I can also drive a tank. :D
Thanks for the awesome story! I shall honor that brave makeup diva and wear my moniker with pride! heheh
McGyver tells the best stories. I think he should channel that power for good, instead of evil. I seem to remember somethng about zombie clones at one point. Where did they go?
Dracorn, your picture is positively beautiful. Thanks for sharing the full size.