Another Dolly, Another Love of my Life

I used to enjoy playing with Poser and Daz Studio back when Victoria 4 was still ruling the roost.  I fiddled a little with Genesis, but found the first version a bit "squishy" looking. I made simple pictures and had fun. I was rubbish, but hey, it was for me, no one else :-)

Then ill health, work and life in general took over and 3d art took a back seat.

Just before Christmas I got a marketing email from Daz, and poked it out of curiosity. Oh my, look at the quality of Genesis now! Look at how it has all come on!

And so the draining of my purse began.  I have bought quite a few G8, and G3 "dollies" and am having so much fun pootling about with them.

Victoria and Michael 8 from the PC for a day sale - well, yes, they are nice, but perhaps a bit, erm, well, typical of 3d figures, if you know what I mean. A little too perfect to be real, maybe.  But they pose beautifully, and form the basis of so many fantastic PA characters.

Then I bought Edward.  Oh yes, here is my dream man.  My first render of him and my mother honestly believed he was my new "real life" boyfriend, lol.  If only!

Then came Floyd, who is just adorable (though perhaps in a rather different way). He has been drafted in to play a wizard character for a series of fantasty illustrations I have long been planning on making.  The character Henry for Floyd is also fantastic.  These old boys are going to be working hard for me.

Then I fell for Bridget, who has a wonderful freckly texture and makes a great "girl next door".  I spent so long rendering pictures of her, posing with a bike, in a forest (a new take on NVIATWAS).

Mrs Chow was a must have. She is so full of character and so very realistic. I suspect Floyd chases after her, in my runtime when I am asleep, and she waves a rolling pin at him and tells him he is a "dirty old man". 

Sakura and Teen Josie were freebies with Mrs Chow.  Sakura is such fun, and works well with all my old Aiko 4 stuff.  I like a bit of anime space heroine now and then.

Teen Josie is going to be great for some horsey pictures I want to make. I am a kid at heart and still love to read my collection of vintage pony books. Josie and her add on characters will be perfect for bringing my horsey dreams to life. I am too old, too ill, and too fat to ride a horse now. But I still look back on when I spent my summer holidays on the back of my best friend, my horse.  Josie will be doing it for me now :-)

And finally, Mei Lin has just joined my rapidly growing new gang. She was free with the Dragon Girl Bundle.  And she is amazing.  I dithered between her and Lee, but thought she might be more useful as I have now got so many Asian girls and their clothes. She mixes so well with Mrs Chow and Josie too. 

I had forgotten how much pleasure all this bought me.  The never-ending excitement of learning new 3d skills and discovering new tricks that the software can do. I am getting back into 3d modelling too, I have some ideas of things I really need that no one seems to sell.  I feel a bit like a noob again, learning about iray and dforce and shaders and stuff, but it is slowly making sense.

Thank you to everyone who has helped me with my silly questions here on the forums. And thank you Daz and the PAs for filling a slightly-eccentric, and a little lonely, woman's world with new loves.

Yes, I know I am daft :-)