Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: A commentary on your gallery

SamTherapy opened this issue on Jul 18, 2005 ยท 57 posts


mickmca posted Tue, 19 July 2005 at 7:52 AM

I think my favorite of my posted work is "At the Poser Market," a composite I created for an essay on virtual reality; it's Gerome's "At the Slave Market" with three Poser "slaves" pretty painstakingly blended in. Compositing is tougher than it looks. For example, you have to analyze the light in the original and then duplicate it somehow in the patch; very tricky, and good training. I use compositing to practice with the graphics tools rather than to create eternal masterpieces. I have a Koshini series in which she is inserted, Gumpishly, into various works of French Impressionism. The best one is the Courbet, with her peeking over his shoulder while he paints something else. In the Courbet, I tried to give her hints of texture that made her seem "one of the guys"; in the other two, I stuck with the "real toad in imaginary garden" (Ow! Virtual whack on skull by Ms. K!). My own favorite composite is a joke based on Gerome's Pygmalion; not posted here, and I won't bother, after seeing Arien's gorgeous Galatea. I'd have to guess that my most popular picture (which ain't saying much) is Hell's Belles, posted as a satirical send-up of a rather silly serious gallery posting (and, less obviously, the constant complaints about how "ugly" Judy is). It might seem like most of the creative energy went into the caption, but actually I spent a lot of time getting the volumetric lighting just right. That was the "learning point" of the piece. Finally, the most fun I had creating a picture, would be "Koshini Is Moonlighting." It was the beginning of the Koshini boom, and as much as I loved the figure, I was getting tired of the "Oh, she's such a cutesy whewtsy!!!" talk, so I decided to do something cute but, well, a bit naughty in Koshi terms. It gave me a chance to use the Artist Studio I had picked up at PoserStyle and to work with a more complicated composition. Not mention getting Koshi naked.... M