Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: To Shape or Not to Shape

Latexluv opened this issue on Aug 06, 2007 · 11 posts


Latexluv posted Tue, 07 August 2007 at 2:11 PM

nodding to dvlenk6  Yes, I'm familiar with AD&D elves, as well as having read several of R.A. Salvatore's books. There are many versions of "elf" out there.There is AD&D, Tolkein, Windi Pini elves of Elfquest (of which I have personally autographed by the Artist and her husband the first three large size issues of the Elfquest comic from the early 1980's), there are elves from Norath, elves from Oblivion video game (very addictive game and IMO, has the ugliest elves I've ever seen unfortunately)......the skin texture for the above figure, Miralith, was inspired by the look in the Norath games, rather than the shiny black as shown on the covers of Salvatore's work and beautifully portrayed by Daio with her Drow elf packages. I wanted to do something different and utilize the nodes in P6 to achieve the skin tone, which in the end came out resembling most the elves in the Norath video game for PS2. My personal concept of elves is that they are far more beautiful than humans, with extremely fine, delicate features. I've been messing with V4's dials for hours and hours and she doesn't easily lend herself to small, delicate features. Her mouth is frustratingly large and wide. To get the ears to a reasonable point using her dials means that they are much larger than I would really like for an elf. I worked with V4 until I got a face that I felt was pretty and about as small featured and delicate without crumpling the face structure. I am working within Poser and not creating custom morphs in an outside program. A long time ago I had a tutorial for morphing and the original Amorphium to morph P4 figures, but that's in a desktop computer in storage in Dallas, TX (I'm in Canada right now applying for permanent residence and all my things and car are in storage in Dallas). A crimson and lavender eye texture is included in the package I'm preparing. I worked last night and morphed V4's body, created the INJ pose and made sure it worked before crashing in bed. The body morph can be applied seperately from the head morph and I'm preparing to make the INJ pose that applies head and body morph together. In this way, people can chose if they want to use the body morph or not because only some of the available clothing items for V4 include morphs that mirror her body morphs. I have a personally morphed V3 that I use in my renders and I have quite a few clothing items that have no body morphs at all with them and won't fit my V3 completely, so I didn't want to frustrate others with this particular problem with clothing. I'm hoping that some people will find my Miralith attractive and want to use her for their renders.

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