SKYLAB CHAT

[skylab]

Even though this robot model is over a decade old, it rendered "affirmative" with Andy in Poser 11 Superfly

 

[Terre]

Cute.

Good morning.

 

[Charles West]

Dare to be different

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I see that one walking backwards when the others march forward...lol

 

[skylab]

Hey Charles

Perhaps all the others are heading for thin ice...haha

 

[skylab]

Good morning everyone...I know Terre usually is first to post it, so I'm going to surprise her with a greetings this morning I've been downloading freebies, loading up runtimes, and updating my archive....and trying to sleep off the after-eyestrain...haha. Now I've got new mats and some new dynamics to try...plus a few unrigged characters .obj to use as Setup Room experiments. The favorite possibility was this one, Mr. Humpty, partly because he's funny, and obviously was an original character, and partly because it would save some rigging, to have no neck to deal with...haha

 

[Terre]

Good afternoon.
He looks like a good subject to learn on, yes.

 

[skylab]

We have another Nursoda alert...another batch of goodies
First, we have another new character:

FOLKA

...and second, skins and hair mats for Folka:

SO STRANGE

...and finally, more animations for Folpert:

FOLPERT BUCK AND REAR

 

[skylab]

Nursoda has videos of his new characters in action

FOLKA DEMO

FOLDE DEMO

FOLPERT DEMO

 

[Terre]

More fun.

 

[skylab]

Indeed...bushel baskets of fun A tip...the short Folka can be achieved in the poses folder, rather than manually scaling. I've applied some of eblank's wonderful So Strange colors in the quick Firefly render below

 

[skylab]

And here's the Folpert rearing animation

 

[skylab]

...and finally, here's the Folpert bucking animation.

Have a good day everyone

 

[Miss B]

Well, someone's having a lot of fun.

 

[Charles West]

Fun characters and demo. Thanks

 

[skylab]

Another render from DAZ Studio a decade ago. I had many like this that had potential, but were either poorly lighted or, because of a lack of resources at the time, may have resulted in a beard that was darker than the eyebrows. After making sepia and oil painting adjustments in Howler, it brought a little life to this dated render.

Have a good day everyone

 

[skylab]

At the time Sarah was creating her animated videos in Poser, I was creating props for her to use. She needed biblical houses and I didn't have a clue how to make them at the time. So, I tackled the project the way houses are built...brick by brick...and not just one house, but several. I was wondering recently if this old project could have a new appearance with Poser 11 Superfly mats. So, brick by brick, I've been working on that transformation...and here's a partially completed example below to show the difference....the original house had the light cream color mat, and the new Poser 11 D3D Superfly mat is in the darker areas mostly on the second floor. The design of these houses were intentional...to save time, the upper levels of the two-story houses were just street level, single story houses, sitting on the second story....in other words, one stacked on top of the other. In case a brick by brick project sounds a little over the top...it's in the blood. Below is a pic of a wooden chain my Dutch grandfather carved from a stick, over the years, during his lunch breaks many decades ago. His attention to detail in all of his woodworking projects was incredible.

The houses that were built for Sarah are still on ShareCG, and the whole project was bundled in this free download:

BIBLICAL MODELS - COMPLETE .OBJ COLLECTION

 

[skylab]

For fun, I've been searching the archive to locate the scene file for this old project, using a Lego man and instruments from 3dpmr.com, Finally found the scene files and Lego man model today, so that the scene would load. Now it's possible to animate the scene, which will be on my growing list of things to do Before locating the Lego man model, the scene was just loading with 3dpmr instruments only This project was originally to cheer up Sarah as her strength began weakening in early 2011. She liked using the Hiro character, and was quite a Beatles fan, so I got her started with faces (below) that she could tweak and play with achieving a likeness in a Poser scene file. Projects like this were difficult to look at after Sarah passed, so they ended up tucked away deep in the archive...until finding them today

Have a good evening everyone

 

[skylab]

A tip about 3dpmr free stuff...if you are interested in the free instruments above, they are on pages 118 and 119...so it will save seemingly endless searching

 

[Terre]

Good evening.

 

[skylab]

More fun than a barrel of monkeys...and just in time for my Kong animation
The Hivewire Gorilla is $5 for just a few more days.