3D Art Freebie Challenge May 2020 "Flowers"

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"Another Red Tulip" (A.R.T.)

Starring: Victoria 8

The tale:

Victoria is crazy about flowers and because the tulips have almost finished blooming she took her bike to pick them before they disappear again ...

Soundtrack:

The Emotions - Flowers (©1976)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_WuTv3_WWs

COUNTABLE FREEBIES: (Alphabetic order)

#01! Android Hair for G8F by SquarePeg3D
https://www.patreon.com/sp3dresources/posts?tag=hair&filters[tag]=hair  (item 6)

#02! Black-Eyed Susan by Lisa's Botanicals (HiveWire3D Stay Home Spread Hope freebie until May 31)
https://hivewire3d.com/shop/stay-home-spread-hope/black-eyed-susan.html  **

#03! Blue Tit by AdamThwaites (Most-Digital-Creations)
https://www.most-digital-creations.com/blue_tit.htm

#04! Cute Rainbow Tattoos by MysticArtDesign
https://sharecg.com/v/92233/gallery/21/DAZ-Studio/Cute-Rainbow-Tattoos  **

#05! dForce Lantern Sleeve Lolita Dress for G8F(Base) by junuehara
https://sharecg.com/v/95748/view/21/DAZ-Studio/dForce-Lantern-Sleeve-Lolita-Drees-for-G8FBase  **
[Customized texture]

#06! DOA 6 Marie Rose - Head and Body Morphs for G8F by TritiumCG
https://www.deviantart.com/tritiumcg/art/DOA-6-Marie-Rose-Head-and-Body-Morphs-for-G8F-825236730  **

#07! Iray car related shader presets 'megapack' by Tom2099
https://www.deviantart.com/tom2099/art/Iray-car-related-shader-presets-megapack-539622361

#08! My Heart Necklace for Genesis 8 Female by amyaimei
https://www.deviantart.com/amyaimei/art/My-Heart-Necklace-for-Genesis-8-Female-729010047

#09! Pansy by Lisa's Botanicals (HiveWire3D Stay Home Spread Hope freebie until May 31)
https://hivewire3d.com/shop/stay-home-spread-hope/pansy.html  **

#10! Sunflowers HDRI by Sergej Majboroda
https://hdrihaven.com/hdri/?c=outdoor&h=sunflowers

#11! Super Morphing Tree 2020 by Design Anvil
https://www.facebook.com/DESIGN-ANVIL-427676333955561/app/212097992149339/  (1st item)

#12! Tulips by Lisa's Botanicals (HiveWire3D Stay Home Spread Hope freebie until May 31)
https://hivewire3d.com/shop/stay-home-spread-hope/tulips.html  **

#13! Vintage Bicycle by AnimaGemini (HiveWire3D Stay Home Spread Hope freebie until May 31)
https://hivewire3d.com/shop/stay-home-spread-hope/vintage-bicycle.html  **

NO-COUNT ITEMS:

---  AllenArt Iray Jewelry Shaders by AllenArt (Still available on DeviantArt)
---  Free Iray Outdoor Lights by Dreamlight
---  Nose Ring 01 for G2F, G3F and/or G8F by AllenArt

PURCHASED/PAID FOR ITEMS: (I got them for free)

$1. Iray 13 Shades of Brunette for DAZ Studio by Daz Originals
https://www.daz3d.com/iray-13-shades-of-brunette-for-daz-studio  **
[Used on Android Hair]

$2. Victoria 8 by Daz Originals
https://www.daz3d.com/victoria-8  **

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$x.   Purchased/Paid For Item

Rendered with DAZ Studio 4.10.0.123 (nVidia Iray)

Other free software used: GIMP v2.10.18 and Irfanview 4.54

Postwork: used the AltaLux Image Enhancement Filter (Effect) by Stefano Tommesani that comes with Irfanview and some filters (oa) that come with GIMP.

"Another Red Tulip" (A.R.T.)

Desert Dancer

Here are Victoria and Michael TWO. And their pets ... LOL
DazStudio 4.11 3Delight render

Credits:
Victoria 2 - Daz3d
Spring of '76 - Tamsin Character - 3D Universe
Subsurface Skin Shader - Tofusan
Gypsies & Genies - Anton Kisiel
Gypsies & Genies Textures 3 - Silverleif Studios
Anemone Hair - 3Dream, Mairy
Michael 2 - Daz3d
CDIBoris - Capsces
JebM2 - BluEcho
Subsurface Skin Shader - Tofusan
DNA_TempleGuard - Traveler
Gargoyle Hound - Daz3d
Desert Hounds - philosophersegg/Sparky
Easy Environments: Oasis - Flipmode
Morphing Magic Carpet - HyperKnux
Big Pillow - Runtimedna (Poser5 content)
Jewels of Architecture Volume 1 - Moyra (Textures for Carpet & Pillow)
Fat Jar - Runtimedna (Poser5 content)
Core Lighting 2 - Lantios (modified)

 

Nice! Aww those gargoyles are cute:)) Had to visit the store for a check- wishlisted:) Love this from the product page:

Textures and Poses

• 500 by 3500 detailed texture map(no bump needed)

Desert Dancer

Here are Victoria and Michael TWO. And their pets ... LOL
DazStudio 4.11 3Delight render

Credits:
Victoria 2 - Daz3d
Spring of '76 - Tamsin Character - 3D Universe
Subsurface Skin Shader - Tofusan
Gypsies & Genies - Anton Kisiel
Gypsies & Genies Textures 3 - Silverleif Studios
Anemone Hair - 3Dream, Mairy
Michael 2 - Daz3d
CDIBoris - Capsces
JebM2 - BluEcho
Subsurface Skin Shader - Tofusan
DNA_TempleGuard - Traveler
Gargoyle Hound - Daz3d
Desert Hounds - philosophersegg/Sparky
Easy Environments: Oasis - Flipmode
Morphing Magic Carpet - HyperKnux
Big Pillow - Runtimedna (Poser5 content)
Jewels of Architecture Volume 1 - Moyra (Textures for Carpet & Pillow)
Fat Jar - Runtimedna (Poser5 content)
Core Lighting 2 - Lantios (modified)

All right, a Michael 8 Sale, I wonder how many of today's releases will be for Victoria 8!

90% of them. 

It was only 53%! 

To be fair, you could autofit everything to a male character.. 

All right, a Michael 8 Sale, I wonder how many of today's releases will be for Victoria 8!

90% of them. 

All right, a Michael 8 Sale, I wonder how many of today's releases will be for Victoria 8!

Hi all. I purchased some items from outside of Daz and want to use Smart content in Daz Studio to view it. On the Files side- no problem. But on the other side/section Products I don't know how. Ideally like with Daz bought products for example Victoria- I click on her picture and then all her stuff is together (iray/3d delight skins, makeup options, etc). Is there a way to do this with 3rd party items? Thanks in advance!

#70 Sahira 8

Who's next ? A new Genesis 8 Male or Victoria 9 ?

69 is "AuBrey", (though they soo should do Audrey in a Twin Peaks themed bundle). 

I would FAR rather them work on expanding the functionality and tech of the DAZ engine itself!  Better memory and drive utilization; more physics advancements; optimization of simulations; adding a weight/density/limits maping for dForce for more realistic fabric and hair simulations... heck, dForce/collision simulation for figures would be incredibly useful and welcomed advances (and any figure update could easily be handled with an expansion for those who want that functionality rather than a new version and all the hassle that involves)!

Soft body physics stuff would be soo appreciated. I mean you can have special morphs for every outfit, but that's a bit clumsy, and doesn't help with wobbly bits.

R.E Daz tweaks.  Better Multi-core utilization would be nice, particularly in the age of Threadripper...  Probably a discussion for another thread though.

I too wonder if the latest 'wave' of back to back 'Pro' characters is a 'wrap up the cue' effort in anticipation of a new generation.  Personally, I don't see us needing a new generation, unless it does something completely mind blowing that they aren't telling us about.

While I'm sure Victoria's birthday will get a bash of some sort, again, no doubt Michael's birthday will be forgotten, again... Michael 8 launched in August, as for the original Michael's birthday... I seem to remember two possibilities in my research.

The free Victoria offers during MM and the "get all Victorias" banner a couple of weeks ago could be seen as a sign that Victoria 9 might launch on her birthday in June...

Except we've had the same offer multiple times in the past already.

but I'd have thought they might have dropped some heavier hints before now if that was going to be the case ?? To get people excited ??

There were no hints before the release of previous generations, I don't see why it would be different this time.

If they expect that a new generation is coming quite a few people will stop buying content for current generation, which is not something that Daz wants. That's most probably part of the reason Daz announced last year that G9 would not be released in 2020 despite usually making no announcements about future releases: as G3 and G8 were released 2 years after the previous generation some people were expecting G9 to be released last June and started saying they were holding off purchases til it was released.

All very interesting. Thanks for the long-term perspective @Leana 

The free Victoria offers during MM and the "get all Victorias" banner a couple of weeks ago could be seen as a sign that Victoria 9 might launch on her birthday in June...

Except we've had the same offer multiple times in the past already.

but I'd have thought they might have dropped some heavier hints before now if that was going to be the case ?? To get people excited ??

There were no hints before the release of previous generations, I don't see why it would be different this time.

If they expect that a new generation is coming quite a few people will stop buying content for current generation, which is not something that Daz wants. That's most probably part of the reason Daz announced last year that G9 would not be released in 2020 despite usually making no announcements about future releases: as G3 and G8 were released 2 years after the previous generation some people were expecting G9 to be released last June and started saying they were holding off purchases til it was released.

I am expecting a male counterpart to Aubrey next, since we had the pirate Valentino -> Dr Who style Aubrey -> pirate Sahira, so Dr Who style male character would complete that pattern of M&F themed characters.

The free Victoria offers during MM and the "get all Victorias" banner a couple of weeks ago could be seen as a sign that Victoria 9 might launch on her birthday in June... but I'd have thought they might have dropped some heavier hints before now if that was going to be the case ?? To get people excited ?? Personally, I'm not looking for G9 at the moment unless it would be totally compatible with G8 content because I've output so much money but then, if it was compatible, maybe it wouldn't be innovative in the ways necessary to justify a whole new generation... so that's a conundrum for me! Perhaps not for others though 

#70 Sahira 8

Who's next ? A new Genesis 8 Male or Victoria 9 ?

Ah e ecco un altra cosa che non mi piace di certi "artisti"è che sono dei "copycat" quando fanno dei prodotti....cioè non prendono ispirazione da...ma copiano e riproducono una cosa o un personaggio....che so....tipo Tanos della Marvel, gli cambiano nome e pensano di fare i furbi! Non ci mettono nulla di loro!

C'è un sito "specializzato" in questo!

In pratica puoi comprare e usare legalmente personaggi di giochi o serie famose anche commercialmente senza dover pagare royalties.

Intanto alla DAZ:
https://www.daz3d.com/james-for-christian-8

https://www.daz3d.com/massive-metal-skin-textures-for-genesis-8-males

https://www.daz3d.com/da-dforce-super-villain-armor-for-genesis-8-males

https://www.daz3d.com/fwsa-hayley-hd-for-victoria-7

https://www.daz3d.com/dynamic-supersuit-set-1-worlds-finest

https://www.daz3d.com/superheroines-pack-for-g-suit-2-hd

(e non riesco a trovare il costume di Wonder Woman, quelllo fatto per Genesis 8)

The morph looks like it could be Victoria 8. The mats look like XF-Diana's but maybe modified - the brows are definitely different. 

Not quite the same thing, but I use the usually hidden G3 clone morphs to turn G8F into a man or G8M into a woman, since Genesis 8 and Genesis 3 are virtually the same shapes, just with different default poses.  Unhide the desired morph, dial it up, use the automatic re-rigging capability of DS (or Poser Pro 11 in my case), and you're essentially good to go!  It might take a bit of custom morphing around the pecs/breasts and/or throat, but you might be surprised at how little such tweaking is necessary.

Both of these characters are based on G8F, and although the body morphs are different, the face morph is the same for both: Juanita from EJ's Ethnic Beauties pack.  It also helps if you have adaptable textures, as I do.  The skin is exactly the same, but the eyebrows and any other facial or body hair is layered on with trans maps.  That allows me to apply thicker eyebrows, a facial stubble, and armpit hair to the male version without having to swap out the whole texture set.  It's not visible here for obvious reasons, but the male also has more pubic hair than the female.

I've been a fan and advocate of transgender morphing as far back as the heyday of Victoria 4 and Michael 4, when it took an add-on or two and some tinkering of my own to make it work, at least the way I wanted it to.  I was thrilled when Daz finally implemented the both-genders-in-one-base idea as an already built-in feature of Genesis 1, only to be confused and frustrated when they subsequently abandoned it starting with Genesis 2!  Apparently the decision had something to do with the difficulty or inconvenience of developing clothing items for an androgynous base even if they're really only meant for one gender.  Maybe if I were a clothing developer, I'd understand better, but from my perspective, it just looks like Daz had an overdue epiphany followed by a rather sudden relapse.  It's been enough time that maybe the technology's improved enough that it might be worth trying again.  At the very least, maybe offer all three (dedicated male base, dedicated female base, and androgynous base) with Genesis 9?

Anyway, thanks for this reminder that I'm not the only one who sees how convenient and perhaps even powerful transgender morphing is!

I don't know of one for G8F, there-s this one for G3F: https://www.daz3d.com/legacy-uvs-for-genesis-3-special-edition-victoria-3

Counterpoint: coming from a software background, I'd welcome a system that incentivizes developers to proudly release improved versions of their bestsellers.
Like DAZ did Victoria 1-8. Same figure, but better. I bought V1 V4 and V8 and it was worth it.
(Or like Microsoft does NOT have to release Word, WriteStar and DocumentTyper to make money. They just release Word 1 2 3 4 5 ....)
Would be nice if some artists revisited their best works, poured in everything they learned since then, tuned and polished it, and released it as “same figure v2, best I can do”. I would rather buy a better version of my favorites than a similar rehash with changes for change's sake.
And yeah I've got a figure of iTellNoNames, it's pretty and I like it. Every week there are new ones that look quite similar, so I'm not really interested. But I don't mind, I check them out, they're pretty, mine's prettier. All good with me as long as I know what I'm getting. Same with textures and eyebrows etc, if you reuse them, ok with me, but it would be nice if I knew that before I purchase. Promo pics only tell so much.

Victoria 2, Rendered in iRay.

I have been having some artist block. Just don't seem to have it in me to make art. But I did manage to do something with V2. I converted her textures to iRay and rendered in iRay. I call her Dark Angel.

Here is the render useage list for the image:

Iray rendering. This happens to me sometimes. You see, I couldn't get the meshugana spotlight to fill in any light. Turned up the lumens, And up, And up some more - by orders of magnatude.

Yes the light was on. Like a bleedin' supernova at about 60 billion lumens. Ten centimenters from the target. Dark as a dungeon. You think I might be missing something obvious? 

"Why does the universe hate me?", I asked while reveling in self-pity. Then for some reason I glanced over at the render settings "enviroment" parms.

That's when the thunderclap happend . It was my palm slapping against my forehead.

Three words:"Sun-Sky Only". (Does the hyphen make it two words? Nevermind. I digress)

Other than still lacking adult supervision, I corrected the situaton by changing it to "Dome and Scene" ( or Scene only )

Victoria 8 and most of the set were immediately vaporized by my spotlight -- a complete white-out. Yeah, I probably should back off the lumens a bit.

But I got this. Thanks for letting me share.