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Blender, Poser, Photoshop
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Hello, and welcome. Thank you for taking time out of your day to view my work. And a double thanks to those who comment and favorite. I deeply appreciate it.

Since I didn't make the first round cut in the Miss Renderosity contest, I'm now posting this here. I strongly debated whether to post this as is, because I wasn't able to finish the image _nearly_ to my liking. I decided to post it so people could see what my work looks like in the very, very early stages. If any newbies out there have been wondering how I do what I do, it's by rendering and refining. A whole lot of refining.

I made the clothing, hair, and full body morph myself. The full body morph is what I'd like it to be, but the clothing and head wrap are _very_ quickly textured. I'm not even satisfied with how the swimsuit bottoms look. They're too stiff right now, even though the clothes are dynamic (well, admittedly, the collar and clasps are props). I also made the "promenade"she's standing on. It's just a very long rectangular box for now, so most of the interesting work is in the texture. I'm trying to figure out how to texture large scale items efficiently, so I gave it a tiling UV map. I'll have to see how that works out. I'm hoping that mixing it with procedural textures helps.

If anyone has advice on modeling waves, please let me know. My beach scene, which will show up in a new image soon, is weak in terms of the water meeting the sand. The water is good, and the sand is good, and even the relationship to distance is good for both.

Eventually the full body morph, the clothes, the hair, and the scenery (I made an ocean, beach, sky, and horizon for another image already) will each be products. Before then, I have a ton of work to do on each of them. This just shows their initial state. Sort of like a sketch, or line-art for 2D. Only this has already been through the design phase, and now needs refining in whole different ways. The mesh and UV mapping of everything is in a good state, and I think I have some decent preliminary textures. I think stitches are in about the right place, and my ideas about scale are OK. But I need to add detail to pretty much every displacement and bump map, the marble needs some serious work, the hair needs touching up at the ends, or at least a slightly adjusted material, I might need to play with the cloth settings of the swimsuit bottoms a bit, and everything that can be needs to be converted to V4. And that's not getting into issues like different material options, morphs for props, and other features I have to add just to make it useful to people.

If anyone has any requests or suggestions regarding these pieces (or any other new products), please let me know. I'm always open to ideas.

Oh! And I'm probably going to make a texture for this character. I wanted to make her much darker than this, but I didn't have time. Yeah, I know, a really dark character for Dawn by a first time character artist probably isn't going to sell so well. I want one, though, and it will be good practice.

That said, all of this will have to wait. I'm going to make a couple of options for that mask, then get back to Essential Materials 02. Some of the items here may dovetail with EM 02, actually, since I need to improve my Lycra and add a Wet Lycra. I need to make my own street lamps for the promenade or pier (not sure which I want yet), so I'd get to play with either my Old or Corroded Metal. I might even get to use my Old Stone on something. That would really be helpful. So much of my problem (almost all) with the new EM 02 materials is figuring out a structure that will work with textures and meshes.

Credits:
Dawn, Starter Morphs (a touch of BodyToned and BodyDefinition) by HiveWire3D
Face of Africa Set 1 textures and materials by VirtualWorld (HW3D)
Antique Street Lamp by LuxXeon (freebie!)

Description
Blender, Poser, Photoshop
---

Hello, and welcome. Thank you for taking time out of your day to view my work. And a double thanks to those who comment and favorite. I deeply appreciate it.

Since I didn't make the first round cut in the Miss Renderosity contest, I'm now posting this here. I strongly debated whether to post this as is, because I wasn't able to finish the image _nearly_ to my liking. I decided to post it so people could see what my work looks like in the very, very early stages. If any newbies out there have been wondering how I do what I do, it's by rendering and refining. A whole lot of refining.

I made the clothing, hair, and full body morph myself. The full body morph is what I'd like it to be, but the clothing and head wrap are _very_ quickly textured. I'm not even satisfied with how the swimsuit bottoms look. They're too stiff right now, even though the clothes are dynamic (well, admittedly, the collar and clasps are props). I also made the "promenade"she's standing on. It's just a very long rectangular box for now, so most of the interesting work is in the texture. I'm trying to figure out how to texture large scale items efficiently, so I gave it a tiling UV map. I'll have to see how that works out. I'm hoping that mixing it with procedural textures helps.

If anyone has advice on modeling waves, please let me know. My beach scene, which will show up in a new image soon, is weak in terms of the water meeting the sand. The water is good, and the sand is good, and even the relationship to distance is good for both.

Eventually the full body morph, the clothes, the hair, and the scenery (I made an ocean, beach, sky, and horizon for another image already) will each be products. Before then, I have a ton of work to do on each of them. This just shows their initial state. Sort of like a sketch, or line-art for 2D. Only this has already been through the design phase, and now needs refining in whole different ways. The mesh and UV mapping of everything is in a good state, and I think I have some decent preliminary textures. I think stitches are in about the right place, and my ideas about scale are OK. But I need to add detail to pretty much every displacement and bump map, the marble needs some serious work, the hair needs touching up at the ends, or at least a slightly adjusted material, I might need to play with the cloth settings of the swimsuit bottoms a bit, and everything that can be needs to be converted to V4. And that's not getting into issues like different material options, morphs for props, and other features I have to add just to make it useful to people.

If anyone has any requests or suggestions regarding these pieces (or any other new products), please let me know. I'm always open to ideas.

Oh! And I'm probably going to make a texture for this character. I wanted to make her much darker than this, but I didn't have time. Yeah, I know, a really dark character for Dawn by a first time character artist probably isn't going to sell so well. I want one, though, and it will be good practice.

That said, all of this will have to wait. I'm going to make a couple of options for that mask, then get back to Essential Materials 02. Some of the items here may dovetail with EM 02, actually, since I need to improve my Lycra and add a Wet Lycra. I need to make my own street lamps for the promenade or pier (not sure which I want yet), so I'd get to play with either my Old or Corroded Metal. I might even get to use my Old Stone on something. That would really be helpful. So much of my problem (almost all) with the new EM 02 materials is figuring out a structure that will work with textures and meshes.

Credits:
Dawn, Starter Morphs (a touch of BodyToned and BodyDefinition) by HiveWire3D
Face of Africa Set 1 textures and materials by VirtualWorld (HW3D)
Antique Street Lamp by LuxXeon (freebie!)