Merry Christmas to all, 2019!

To family and friends everywhere ... 

wishing you a very Merry Christmas 

and 

a safe, Happy New Year!

Touching base again

Touching base with some re-posts ... eye candy really ... because it's been how long since I posted here? That's about how long it's been since I was able to do some fresh art. Have been sick (again), and on top of that I have (damnit) computer issues. For some time my desktop has been really struggling with Iray, and it's not a happy machine. What it can render is limited, and frankly, I'm pushing it too hard. If I don't watch out, I'm going to burn it out -- which doesn't alter the fact it'll be a year before I can get a new one! So...

I have a sneaking suspicion I'm going to have to revert to raytracing. Iray will have to go on the side burner till I can update the hardware ... that's the bottom line. Now, there's actually a lot to be said for old fashioned raytracing. Like this:

Sure, Iray is going to give you superior results (duh!), and also the Firefly engine built into Poser will give superior results (ditto) than the old 3Delight raytrace engine built into Studio ... but not when you're limping along with hardware that doesn't want to play nice anymore. Hmm.

Bear with me. I'm starting to recover my health a bit, and am juuuust about at the point where I want to see how far I can push raytracing, to get that last little bit out of it, before we get to Christmas 2020, and I'm breaking open a new box, spending two days installing software! I mean, get real here: this is a raytrace:

So let's give the poor old computer a break: stop trying to render stuff that looks photographic, and just turn out some lovely artwork. Yes? Yes. Okay. I used to enjoy the heck out of raytracing! It's over eight years since I did these:

So! Artwork coming up, rather than experiments in photo-realism ... let's just go out there and have fun, at least till I'm breaking open a new box!

Sinbad, anyone --?

Am in a Sinbad kind of mood -- can you tell? This is the Rex skinmap and a tweak on the face morph, wearing a couple of bits of the Huntsman costume for Genesis 3, which also fits G8 well. This one rendered for three hours before I called "enough!" and yet if you look very closely, it needed more. Tough, because my video card won't go any further! Which is a bit rough, because that's a backdrop, not a standing set. Golly, if I'd tried to do the set as well --? 😲 I also lit it with an IBL image, so the computer didn't have to prat about with a million calculations back there for Iray lights. Well, harrumph. So I called it done.

Kind of reminds me of Sindbad. somehow; always my favorite character in kids' fiction, when I was a kid myself. (And then of course you grow up and see Patrick Wayne as Sinbad. I kid you not --

We had all the fun in the late 1970s! Star Wars was the cherry on top of the whipped cream, but you can trust me on this ... there was a lot of whipped cream under the cherry!)

Just one image today. I'd intended to do a lot more, but I've been busy and am still quite ill. I'll see what I can do in the next couple of days. Got lots of images inside my head, trying to get out!

Touching base ... have been soooo ill!

Forgive me if I'm reposting some eye candy from long ago -- some of it eight years ago! I've been ill. Very. Anybody out there ever had gastro? The real, genuine version ...? Uh huh. Few times in the last week, I thought it would be easier and kinder just to roll over and die quietly! Anyway...

One doesn't get to make the decision in these cases, so there really was nothing for it but to lie there feeling like the living dead, and eventually get well! I suppose I'll live after all. So --

-- just reposting some images that haven't been seen in months and years. Easy to forget them! And I'll be posting fresh pictures as early as tomorrow. Ooooh, the images I have dancing in my mind's eye right now. Just need the time (and energy) to render and paint. Stay tuned ... and sorry for disappearing on you for ten days.