Shader's Cafe has a new home!

The previous administrator of the forum has passed control of the forum over to me. I hope I am up to the job of providing a home for the Shade community all over the world.

Space Cadet Lin for Terai Yuki, now on sale!

She is supposed to look sort of 70-ish science fiction. Anyway, she is now on sale in Content Paradise, here

Shade9 English released!!

Yay! After a long wait, Shade9 has been released in English!
You can read all about it here: http://shade.e-frontier.co.jp/en/shade9_eng-info/index.html

I have a girlfriend!

And her name is Gisela.
I am so happy :)

Poser clothes free, to celebrate my birthday!

Yay!
This weekend only, this medieval gentleman clothing for the G2 males is free to download in Content Paradise!

http://www.contentparadise.com/us/user/medieval_gentleman_for_the_g2_males_product_45375

BTW, I'm accepting expensive gifts for my birthday :P

G2Simon as a Medieval Knight

I forgot to post this before. Had been working on this character, it is done now. Took me a LOT to finish, the zipped file with all the textures and stuff is just barely below 80mb!
Anyways, I hope you like it

Shade9 English, temptative date announced!

This is big for me. As Shade is one of my everyday tools, the release of an update (finally!) after so much time is heaven sent.
Yay for e-frontier!
You can read all about it here

Valkyria for Tera Yuki2, now on sale!

Finally, after several iterations and extensive testing (thanks, rdouraku and Tagavoga!) she is ready to hand pick the best slain warriors from the battlefield!

Available, of course, in Content Paradise.

turntable animation for Valkyria

Just as it sounds. Here in it's youtube glory.
And for an mp4 version, click here

Valkyria W.I.P.

I am working on a character set for Terai Yuki (by Ken-Ichi Kutsugi) of a liberal interpretation of a Valkyria.

I modelling all the clothing, even the hair.
And here she is in the most recent milestone...

Modelling has been done in Silo and Shade, texturing in 3d-coat. Rendered in Poser.

Zaibora mecha, now available at Content Paradise!

Between this mecha and the pseudopods, I don't know which Poser thingy to date has been more complex to rig and stuff.
Probably the mecha...
So anyway, it's on sale right now :)
http://www.contentparadise.com/us/user/zaibora_mecha_product_43146

mecha biped beasty W.I.P., yet another update!

It has been hell tweaking the joint parameters and the control dials to my liking. But it is in quite an advanced stage now.
Meanwhile, here is a Lightwave render, courtesy of the Lightwave Poserfusion, just released for PoserPro (yay!)

mecha biped beasty W.I.P., yet another update

The concentration on the turning around is done. 11 different animated body parts in a single dial. It was a lot of work. But it's finally done.
Here is a link to a video showing it walk in circles.
http://juanmanuel3d.com/images/forums/walking promo4.mp4
And here it is in all it's youtbue glory...

Clustr maps counting correctly, finally!

So I decided to find out why I had no visitors according to clustrmaps, and it turns out I had pasted some incorrect code!
Well, now it is working, and I like how the dots look on the world map :)

mecha biped beasty W.I.P., another update

The black texture set is done!

update on mecha biped beasty

I don't like the resolution on the embedded video of the last post, so here's a link to two full resolution videos on the mecha walking.

Video1
Video2

But more importantly, I've managed to reduce the number of dials to animate a walk cycle to just two dials!

Here is a link to a flash video I did showing just how easy it will be to make the mecha walk.

mecha biped beasty W.I.P., update

Here is a video showing a walk, to test how my rigging holds out. Still untextured, but fully uvmapped.

The diamond thingies are the cannon's aims, you move them around, and the cannons follow them. It allows for easier posing.

Asian Empress for Terai Yuki, almost almost ready!

I did this last beauty render, and I just cannot feel her "evilness" any longer. So maybe I'll just rename her "Asian Empress" instead of "Evil Empress"

Evil Empress W.I.P.

Sorry for not updating my blog in a while. Lots of real life stuff have taken their toll.

But here I am :)

This is a character set I'm building for e-frontier's Terai Yuki.
As of now, all the clothing except the ribbon has been modeled in Silo 2.1
The ribbon I modeled in Shade.
Uvmapped in Silo, textured in 3d-coat.
Rendered in Poser7, postwork in the Gimp

Zaibora addons for Terai Yuki2, now available!

Rigging the tentacles was hell! But it is done, finally!
Modelled in Shade, Silo, rigged and rendered in Poser.
I hope you like it!