Recently I changed careers to full time, free lance artist. I was a finish carpenter and cabinet maker for the last almost 40 years and could see the hand writing on the wall as construction has all but come to a screeching halt in the last couple years. I. E. my change in careers. I have been involved in some form of design though for about forty years so this is not new to me. I model in 3D Studio Max and also use many other software packages to get my products finished.

This is quite a change to make at my age, but sometimes you just have to go for it.

Here is a sneak peek at my first in a line of production quality movie set back lots for Poser as well as Vue.I will say that it does cover an entire city block, complete with roads and intersections, with details right down to the weeds in the cracks of the individually modeled sidewalk sections.

So as you can see, I have taken a new direction in my products. Will still be doing some smaller things on occasion but there seems to be a huge need for larger items like this one, so here you go!

Also will release more images as we get closer to release.

As always, any comments are very welcome, all I ask is please be kind. I value your opinion and have taken ideas from such comments and incorporated them in my products, so please, don't be shy about asking.

Have about 2 months into this project and really put a lot of detail into it, and I mean a lot.
I think at last count there were around 2,900 parts for the Vue version. The Poser version will be the same amount of detail but with parts grouped so Poser does not have a heart attack trying to load it.

Any way thanks for all your support in the past and I will promise that, you will not see me go away from here again, unless it is in a box.

Very kind regards, Tom Mitchell
Dreamland Models

 This looks great.  I hope the poser and vue version will be included together.  Good work!
Love esther

This is such a great product!  Got an idea, if you haven't thought of it.  You can have it to load the whole city block, or building by building, and including streets, this way we have an option of what kind of shape we want the block to be... ie, country style, all the store fronts on one side of the street, hillis and homes in the distance on the other side (that's what kind of town I live in).  Also, maybe a "vertical parking front", where there are maybe one or two parking lots (convenience stores, post office, etc...) and the rest is where you turn into a parking space, slanted, facing the building.

Ever think about making "old town" type buildings that are still standing mixed with some new buildings in country places?  Not ghost towns, but "now a days" small towns.   Forget city living with all the crimes and junk, go country hehe.  Just an idea :)

I hope you finish this project, am looking forward to it!

...wolfie

Hi Esther,
Thanks for the kind words.
There will be a Poser version and a separate Vue version.
However I have started to include the .obj files with my Poser products so you can import them into Vue and other programs.
The difference between the two is about 2,800 objects. The Poser version will have around 100 to 150 objects where as the Vue version will have around 2,900 objects. There are somwhere in the area of 1700 individual weeds place on this model and that would be way too much work in Poser to import that many objects in, one at a time.
In Vue they will all be available to move scale etc. re-texture.

Hi Wolfe,
Good ideas as well. You will be able to move different parts around in both versions. In Poser it will be limited to and entire street of sidewalk instead of the individual sidewalk sects as they are modeled in Max.
You will be able to move the buildings around if you like.

Thanks again both of you for the nice words about my warehouse project.
kind regards, Tom