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RELEASED Hivewire Big Cat Has Begun!
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FairyFantastic
Awesome
wow looking awsome
I'll third that.
Things look great. And with a cat your really need both flexibility and good claws.
Oh, and by the way, that photo. Taken by a friend of mine who is a wild life photographer. When we used to work together, another friend of ours would always save his emails with photos in a folder call "You're life is better than mine". Anyone needing more big cat photos should check out his Africa photo's here Bob Smith Images
Oh, and by the way, that photo. Taken by a friend of mine who is a wild life photographer. When we used to work together, another friend of ours would always save his emails with photos in a folder call "You're life is better than mine". Anyone needing more big cat photos should check out his Africa photo's here Bob Smith Images
carmen indorato
Extraordinary
Also, last night saw a special on unique wildlife and they did a study of animals that "fly" and there were several I knew about but the two that surprised me the most was a snake and the Caracal. A smaller wild cat in Africa that leaps straight up in the air VERY HIGH to feed on birds nesting in trees and in flight. They showed the whole sequence of it gathering itself with hind legs 1/3 longer than the front and power itself into the air...yup straight up and missing or capturing the bird in flight turns twisting front one way and hind end the other to turn itself around to land nimbly on all four legs again...non-plussed. It was a awesome display of natural adaptation.
As I recall Lynn Did a Caracal from DAZ Cat or Big Cat that looked awesome. Wonder if the same is going to be created with this beaut.
As I recall Lynn Did a Caracal from DAZ Cat or Big Cat that looked awesome. Wonder if the same is going to be created with this beaut.
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Extraordinary
add wings and a tufted or spiked dragon tail and thick rough hair and chin growth and you might have the beginnings of the mantacore.
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One last WIP render for today- reworked around the eyes more now I have the eyes closed look to work with too
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Oh my god...breath taking with the eyes staring back at you are incredible but what really got me was the little details like the hair growth inside the ears. Would be nice also including spit reflectivity around the lips. Incredible attention to details make figures like this an incredible pleasure to have and work with.
My question is how economical power wise will this be to run in Poser? I know it took longer to render Harry when I first got him than it did the MilHorse . Though beautiful this cat looks so far to be able to take as long compared to the first MilBig Cat (does anyone here have the MilBigCat 2/ I can't use it so I didn't get it but how much better than its predecessor is it?
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Sphinx had female breasts Chris. it looks more like the Mantacore. The last being the, greatly lacking the usual support and detail the old DAZ Mantacore.
like these:
My favorites for this character are the first, third and fourth from top.
Those are my favorites as well.
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they are the ones that come closest to what Chris showed above. The Sphynx is in need of other works I think I posted elsewhere in these forums sometime ago but I would really love if made available.
Actually I think he will render quite fast- what slows Harry down so much is all the of the transparency of his hair. In fact, the big cat should work very similar to/run the same time it takes to render Harry with NO HAIR at all - just Harry's body. Personally I have seen no different time wise in rendering Harry's body vs the old Mil Horse body. Now if the mane is on/being used, yes Harry will take longer to render since there are more trans layers in the mane (and the tail and so on)
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But the old MilHorse also has transmap hair in mane and tail and fetlocks.
Maybe the textures for harry are higher res'd?
Maybe the textures for harry are higher res'd?
Dreamer
Dream Weaver Designs
It has much less than Harry dose, not sure about the textures.
A manticore and a sphinx would be cool. The manticore might be iffy because of the triple rows of teeth. Not sure how one would fit that into a supposedly human shaped mouth (still, no one ever said the head was in scale). And for that matter, who ever got close enough to see that there were *three* rows of teeth and lived to tell the tale?
This one is definitely my favorite!
When Kitty is ready to do cubs, this had some nice footage of the belly and little face of a clouded leopard cub, 7 weeks old. WATCH: Tiny clouded leopard napping is adorable