1. Load figure and add head/body morphs, then add clothes, hair, accessories, etc.  and then finally choose a pose.  I usually spend a lot of time at this point making minor adjustments to the pose, and the clothing if needed.

2. Set up initial lights.

3. Begin adding props and a set/scene, then experiment with rotating the scene and trying out different camera angles until I've got something I'm happy with.

during all of this I render repeatedly with the P4 engine to check my progress and make sure everything is looking right, and also save VERY frequently

4. Turn volume on for atmospherics and then spend several hours adjusting the settings for the lights and atmosphere, adding new lights, respositioning them, etc.  The majority of this time is spent waiting for the scene to render in Firefly after each adjustment.  sigh

5. Once I've got it just right I then try to render at a larger resolution and higher dpi.

Until recently I've not run into any problems, but in the last couple of weeks I've had to add  few more steps.

6. Poser refuses to render.  I spend several minutes cussing, and by this time I'm too tired to screw with it and just close Poser out and go to bed.

7. The next day (when I'm in a better mood) I spend a few hours tweaking and testing the render options until I can finally get the bloody thing to render completely.

8. Save and bring it into PSP for minor touch-ups, enhance the lighting and adjust colour, maybe play with some scripts, add title and signature, make a thumbnail, etc.

9. Type up my credits list (that gets saved in the same folder as my new pic for future reference) and then head on over to R'osity to upload it to my gallery.  Once that's done, I breath a sigh of relief and take a break for a few days before starting the process all over again.  :rolleyes:

"You don't know what we can see
Why don't you tell your dreams to me
Fantasy will set you free." - Steppenwolf