Then, on a whim, I couldn't resist seeing what would happen if you took the exact same character, changed the costume and hair. Here's the result:
I swear, it's the exact same morphing of Michael 4 -- all I changed was the costume and hair, and suddenly ...
The art was barely finished when I got the word from above: "Stop right there, don't change nuthin' else, because that's Curt Gable." So spake Mel Keegan, and I'm delighted to be able to call another of the NARC characters -- the Starfleet pilot who just transferred over -- done! Next thing on the agenda is to pose this character with the Mischa Petrov character (the man you love to hate!) and check out the result. I'll get to this in the next couple of days.
And this one, below, had to render overnight, it took so long:
It's the starship model which is so huge, DAZ won't even open it, so these shots are rendered in Bryce 7 Pro, then tweaked in Irfanview and finished in GIMP. (Repainted in Photoshop, in 2024.) Super-carrier in the Rabelais Drift ... Hellgate. Oh, yeah.
Jade, September 30
***Posted by MK because the internet is AWOL. Intermittent crap. Be warned, guys: our connection is going to be in and out for a week or two, as of this point: Telstra (or whatever) is doing a lot of work on the landlines in this area. And as you know, if you've been looking at the "poster notes" on these journal entries in my looooong adventure through the world of CG, 3D and digital, even at the best of times we can find ourselves with dialup speeds in this area. This is why MK has been making many posts for me, since Day One -- Keegan has the fast connection, not me! (This should change in the near future, when the cables or whatever are updated, and they stop working on them. At least, s'wot Telstra promises.) Credit where it's due: this blog would not have been possible without the support of a pal with decent internet. Because ours sucks. We moved into this area about six months before I got into Studio and blogging about it, and I almost quit right there: DAYS to download something from the DAZ store, at one point. Argh. Thank gods for friends when you need 'em!
