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RELEASED HiveWire Dog Is Underway

Chris

HW3D President
Staff member
Co-Founder
That body is looking awesome Sparky lady.

I'd better hurry and finish up my end of things, so not everyone is waiting on me.

Need to position the whiskers, fine tune the teeth. I think I still have the wolf teeth inside. Need to get expressions done and body morphs.
 

Spit

New-Bee
Oh the leg bending..wow! and the snarl! So happy it's moving along!! Just wow again!

Speaking of collies, the original collie was shorthair. Brought to America from Scotland in the late fifties to be trained as seeing-eye dogs (what they were called back then) by Dr. "Elise" Ford a biology professor at the local college. She felt the collie's temperament was better for women and kids and the shorthair collie was easier to keep groomed than the long hair.I and a bunch of other students (jr.high, not college) worked with her and the dogs to get their CDs and had permits to take them around town into stores and on buses to get them used to things. We used to pile into her station wagon with the dogs on weekends to head off to yet another dog show. It was really fun.

They were all blue merles which became very popular and were later bred back into the longer hair collies mainly in the Seattle area. We were in Tacoma at that time (her kennel (Shamrock) and lab was in Indiana.) My first (and only) published writing was a piece on training in her journal of Collie Genetics.

About a decade later I was living in New York City. Got on a bus one day and there was a blind man with a familiar looking dog. I asked him about it and he said it was a Shamrock collie. Felt soooo good.
 

Spit

New-Bee
The thing is too, when you look at that Spooky avatar you'd think it's a big bad dude behind it, that most likely keeps very strange things in his freezer.

Instead when Lisa and I spoke with her over the phone, its a very pleasant feminine voice on the other side, accompanied by a sweet lil' giggle.

I think you nailed it. LOL I was surprised too!
 

Alisa

RETIRED HW3D QAV Director (QAV Queen Bee)
Staff member
QAV-BEE
Loving watching the texture coming together, Sparky!
 

Sparky

Monster Maker
Contributing Artist
Getting a start on the yellow lab. ^.^

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