nDelphi, Rae is correct. You can create separate albums, and control a certain degree, who can view the contents of those albums. I always set my albums to Members only, so folks must be logged in as a member of HiveWire to view them.
But yes - yes, you can post your non-HW art to the galleries here. I do it on a regular basis, with no issues. I just have my non-HW art in a separate album from the pictures that do contain Dawn/Dusk/Luna. That's all.
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And since folks seem to like the new avatar, here is what that picture looks like at full size.
I want to stress that I don't consider this picture to be one of my better renders; it was just a throw-it-together for the avatar. I did postwork some basic DOF/blur into the background to make sure Blake and my white wolf popped out properly. At a small size for avatar use it's fine, but I will not be adding this one to my actual gallery, as I just think the quality is too sub-par for my own standards.
But anyway, there you go.
Blake - Genesis 1, an edited M4 skin, my eye textures, Midnight Prince M4 hair, glasses from RDNA originally made for M3; Eldritch Seeker shirt, converted from G2M to G1.
Alessandro AM's wolf for Studio, with the LAMH fur preset.
Alessandro's grizzly bear, with the freebie LAMH preset applied.
Lyne's wonderful old bull elk model.
Ken's Bald Eagle
Ken's Stellar's Jay (I can't tell you how long I hunted for a good Stellar's Jay!!)
Ken's Red-Tailed Hawk
Blake had to have his say on this one! LOL The white wolf is for me, and Blake's character takes a LOT of traits from my own personality, so maybe that's why he insisted on being in this picture. The various critters (other than the wolf), pretty much constitute his immediate family and their animal shifts. The only exception to that is Lyne's elk, which is Blake's own animal shift/form, and his adoptive mother's shifted form is absent entirely because, frankly, NO ONE ANYWHERE has made a 3D wolverine for us yet!! I need one SO badly! I need a wolverine AND a badger! LOL
The hawk and the stellar's jay are his brother's shifted forms; the bald eagle is a sort of adopted sister, and is her form. The bear belongs to a cranky old coot who pretty much decided it was his job to help Blake's family straighten this boy out. And his adoptive father never did gain an animal form, so he's nowhere to be found in this picture. The stellar's jay is his brother Seth's form, and that one is closest to Blake in the picture because Seth was the one who finally succeeded in getting the boy to actually start speaking. He was entirely non-verbal for almost two years when his fosters took him in. None of them are related to him by blood, but he's sort of made his own family between his foster/adoptive parents and friends over the years. I did mention that Blake is a storyline character....
The white wolf is my own spirit animal/totem animal, so yeah... wolfie is present! LOL
I included the Dancing Lights background, because where I spent time out west, we used to see the Aurora from time to time, and I am still horribly drawn to those Lights... as in I will freeze in the middle of whatever I'm doing and just stare happily whenever I see them. I miss seeing them; the east coast here doesn't usually get to see them.
That about sums up all the various parts of the quickie avatar render.
But yes - yes, you can post your non-HW art to the galleries here. I do it on a regular basis, with no issues. I just have my non-HW art in a separate album from the pictures that do contain Dawn/Dusk/Luna. That's all.
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And since folks seem to like the new avatar, here is what that picture looks like at full size.
I want to stress that I don't consider this picture to be one of my better renders; it was just a throw-it-together for the avatar. I did postwork some basic DOF/blur into the background to make sure Blake and my white wolf popped out properly. At a small size for avatar use it's fine, but I will not be adding this one to my actual gallery, as I just think the quality is too sub-par for my own standards.
But anyway, there you go.
Blake - Genesis 1, an edited M4 skin, my eye textures, Midnight Prince M4 hair, glasses from RDNA originally made for M3; Eldritch Seeker shirt, converted from G2M to G1.
Alessandro AM's wolf for Studio, with the LAMH fur preset.
Alessandro's grizzly bear, with the freebie LAMH preset applied.
Lyne's wonderful old bull elk model.
Ken's Bald Eagle
Ken's Stellar's Jay (I can't tell you how long I hunted for a good Stellar's Jay!!)
Ken's Red-Tailed Hawk
Blake had to have his say on this one! LOL The white wolf is for me, and Blake's character takes a LOT of traits from my own personality, so maybe that's why he insisted on being in this picture.
The various critters (other than the wolf), pretty much constitute his immediate family and their animal shifts. The only exception to that is Lyne's elk, which is Blake's own animal shift/form, and his adoptive mother's shifted form is absent entirely because, frankly, NO ONE ANYWHERE has made a 3D wolverine for us yet!! I need one SO badly! I need a wolverine AND a badger! LOL The hawk and the stellar's jay are his brother's shifted forms; the bald eagle is a sort of adopted sister, and is her form. The bear belongs to a cranky old coot who pretty much decided it was his job to help Blake's family straighten this boy out. And his adoptive father never did gain an animal form, so he's nowhere to be found in this picture. The stellar's jay is his brother Seth's form, and that one is closest to Blake in the picture because Seth was the one who finally succeeded in getting the boy to actually start speaking. He was entirely non-verbal for almost two years when his fosters took him in. None of them are related to him by blood, but he's sort of made his own family between his foster/adoptive parents and friends over the years.
I did mention that Blake is a storyline character....The white wolf is my own spirit animal/totem animal, so yeah... wolfie is present! LOL
I included the Dancing Lights background, because where I spent time out west, we used to see the Aurora from time to time, and I am still horribly drawn to those Lights... as in I will freeze in the middle of whatever I'm doing and just stare happily whenever I see them. I miss seeing them; the east coast here doesn't usually get to see them.
That about sums up all the various parts of the quickie avatar render.
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