Terai Yuki is a Pirate!

My most recent character-thingy set for Poser7 and Terai Yuki2.


You can find it here

Modelled in Shade and Silo, uvmapped in Silo and unwrap3d, textured in the Gimp 2.4 and 3d-brush 2.

Casino in Playa del Carmen, Mexico

This is the exterior of a proposed casino in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. The facade, while sober, has some interesting dialogue with lighting. I wonder how it would look by day, though...

Modelled and rendered entirely in Shade. Male and female figures are Poser7 G2 Simon and Sydney, with the High Stakes content pack.

Video explaining how to make Promo images in Poser and the Gimp

Poser can be a nice compositing package of items made somewhere else, it's menu driven library interface and dials take care of that.

However, I've read people complaining that they just cannot find a way to make nice images in Poser. Not that all my Poser images are that great, but I have been told from time to time that some are quite nice.

So I made a video detailing how I made one of the promo images of the January 2008 Passport freebie I'm sponsoring in Content Paradise. Here is the link to the freebie (all January 2008) in case you're curious.

And here is the link to the video.

If you want to save the video to your computer, the direct link is here. It is an avi encoded with the h264 codec, as the original was just too big for practical purposes. There is a link to a codec pack in the webpage, in case you find you cannot see it.

The video was captured in Camtasia Studio 3, and highlights my general Poser7 and Gimp2.4 workflow.

I hope you enjoy it!

I'm sponsoring the Content Paradise Passport freebie!

That's right. All January, in contentparadise.com, all Passport members will be able to download my Amazon Queen for G2Sydney for free! Finally, I can spill the beans :D
My main tools for creating the set were:
Modelling:
Shade and Silo2.
Uvmapping:
Silo2 and unwrap3d
Texturing:
3d-brush and the Gimp
Rendering:
Poser7 and Shade. I just did a render in Shade, just to see if there were no surprises on conversion. So all the renders and thumbnails you see with the product, are in fact done in Poser.
cr2, pp2, mc6, mt5 files tweaking:
Open Office 2.3, jane 1.54, SandR 1.5, MorphManager 4.0

You can find the link here

Patio of residence in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico

This is quickie work I had to do on an old model (well, from September of this year...). Everything you see is modelled in Shade, except the roofs, which were modelled in Amapi. The roof tiles are made in Shade though...
Rendered in Shade.

Near-me is a pirate, now for sale!

Indeed, and I'm quite proud of it.
Now available at Content Paradise.

Near-me is a bucaneer, almost ready for launch!

Pirate in the fog

This is a novel take on a character I am developing for Near-me by e-frontier.(or is it by Smith Micro now).
The blouse as of right now, is a dynamic clothing, the trousers and boots are conforming clothes. The eye patch and the sword are smart props.
Rendered in Poser7, saved using the multipass script and composited and postworked in the Gimp.
The mesh geometry was done in Silo2.

elven character for Terai Yuki2, WIP

Just as the title says. Althogh, maybe I'll throw in a falchion and a captain's hat, she could be a nice pirate too...

I'm using a novel approach using curved surfaces in Shade, using them as a low polygon mesh, to later detail in Silo. Unwrapped in unwrap3d, and the cloth simulation is courtesy of Poser7.

No render... yet.

I also did an elven staff in Silo2, and a cloak I did in Shade... which I'm not showing until the next wip hehehe

garage renovation

A simple render highlighting the renovation of a garage. The existing architecture is all white and somewhat simplified to give contrast between the old and the new.

Modelled and rendered using Shade pro. Background rendered in Vue5 infinite. The brik thingy was uvmapped in Silo2. The props are not mine in case anybody wonders...

Near me is an Amazon Warrior, now on sale!

:D

After quite a while, doodling in Shade, Silo, unwrap3d, zbrush, 3d-brush, the Gimp, and what-not, it is ready!

I'm quite proud of it.

Near-me as an Amazon Warrior, almost ready for prime time!

I crafted her a cudgel-spear-thingy for her yesterday, modelled and uvmapped it in Silo, textured in 3d-brush. Rendered in Poser7, postwork in the Gimp.

Near-me as an Amazon Warrior WIP, yet another update

Here is a viewport screengrab, now with a legknife with its scabbard. This time around, the knife and scabbard were modelled and uvmapped in Silo2.05, and textured in 3d-brush 2.01
The screengrab is from Poser7.

Near-me amazon Warrior WIP, update

Most time consuming this time was the sort of knot on the sandals. Modelled and uvmapped the sandals in Silo2, textured in Zbrush 3.1, rendered in Poser7.

beach esplanade delight, WIP

Modelled in Shade, uvmapped in Silo2, rendered in Shade.

I should have put some more weathering effects all around, but it is a work in progress. The conical thatched roof, I need to get rid of that visible seam. Still, I think it conveys the general idea...

Near-me amazon Warrior WIP update

I did this the other day but did not upload it. New are the shoulder guards as well as the gauntlets. Used Silo2 and Zbrush for the modelling and texturing, rendered in Poser7

Bar and TV, as of this morning

I'm leaving the render on the background while I'm doing stuff (though I do turn it off to render other stuff), and this is how it looks as of this morning. I turned on the light panels for this image, but leaved the floor lights turned off.

Small shopping centre in Martinez de la Torre, Veracruz

A "maquette" view of a proposal of a shopping centre (or to be exact, a row of shops) in Martinez de la Torre, Veracruz. Since the design still is in very early stages, I opted for an all white image, the volumetry of the project giving it "life"

Traced and extruded in Lightwave9.3, detailed in Silo2, uvmapped in unwrap3d, rendered in Shade. I know, lots of programs involved, but this being a relatively simple project, I was experimenting using alternate workflows.

Bar and TV, rendering so far

Modelled in Shade, rendering in Maxwell. This is how the render looks so far. Behind the frosted glass panels are some light panels, as well as below the floor (which also is frosted glass). But I like this option a lot, reminds me of some film noir.

Entrance to a housing complex

Modeled and rendred entirely in Shade. The main "watch tower" however I exported to Silo to uvmap so the seams could match the design. The cars and the tree are from the Shade Collection series.