Latest Render

Things have been stressful so I haven't had a whole lot of inspiration but I was in the mood for some scifi imagery so.... here is the Ships Hangar. The planet in the background is a Photoshop painting that I did. Almost all models are from Daz3D. Lighting really was a challenge for some reason.

I got the Oculus Quest2 for Christmas and my "home environment" is the scifi space station. Shocker, right? Everyone who knows me and has an oculus asked me if that was the environment I chose. Guess I'm an open book. Scifi all the way. My favorite show is Stargate Atlantis, my favorite movie is Galaxy Quest and my goto purchased movie on my phone/tablet is Passengers. I'm also currently watching The Martian. (shrug, scifi is my fav)

“Art is a place where you can be with your own kind, a magical place where imagination flies freely and widely.”

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

Latest Fan Art Render

Just a quickie render to satisfy my Star Wars mood.

The Jabba's Tower model is from Vanishingpoint.biz and rendered in Daz Studio.

I haven't rendered anything in a while with everything that's been going on. At least we finally got our water back after more than a week. I swear we need to look into improving the well here so we aren't dependent on our little water company when the power goes out for as long as it did.

I need a vacation.

Deep Space Contemplation

15 hours of rendering and then a bit of postwork in photoshop. I love this new character but I have to say, the Daz PA who created it needs someone else to put his final product together. There's very little help with regard to which textures belong to which geo shell and his thumbnails are no help. One texture even tried to pull from a file that only exists if you have one of his other characters. I had to create that file folder and copy everything over to it just to get it to work. Very, very sloppy. He creates great scifi characters and I'll probably purchase again but Daz is just as sloppy considering they've received complaints about him and all they do is shrug it off and say that he doesn't respond. Daz needs to implement a bit more quality control.

It's finally beginning to feel like summer is ending. Layers are definitely needed up here with mornings and evenings dropping down to the 40's and the middle of the day reaching up to the high 70's. My arthritis is definitely feeling it. I woke up yesterday to pain in my knee (the new one), my right hip and my hand. Last winter was difficult so I'm not looking forward to this one. We're putting in a little putting green next weekend... sadly just in time for colder weather since the caldor fire interrupted our attempt to install it in August.