Just wanted to post a couple of images of Antonia for feed-back.
Which one do you think would be better as a page one promo, A or B?

A is sexier!
dph

I defer to DP's wisdom!

Hi BluEcho,

I like "A" as well.  Shows her bending abilities along with her charm.

BTW, what finally happened to that V3 remap I made of her?
dph

I like B the elbow in A looks horrible.

I agree with Marque. The elbow in A is troubling, which probably explains why she's kinda grimacing and holding her neck in such a stiff position.

B is much much better, more relaxed, and more natural.

I still have it and odf mentioned it recently.
It will give us more texture options when the final version is released.

I didn't find any problems with it and even had one of my WIP reptile skins from V3 transferred to Antonia.

About the elbow bend...my bad, I have trouble getting the correct twist there...:)
I'd correct it before using that image but I'm leaning towards A as well.

Quote - BTW, what finally happened to that V3 remap I made of her?
dph

I wasn't quite sure what your plans with it were. If you're interested in hosting it yourself or putting it on the site that BluEcho is hosting for free Antonia-related content, I'll be happy to make the upgraded OBJ and CR2 files for the current Antonia. Otherwise, I was going to wait until Antonia 1.0. It's still your product, so I'm not going to do anything without consulting you first.

Quote - It's still your product, so I'm not going to do anything without consulting you first.

It is NOT my product!  Antonia is YOUR project, and AntoniaV3 is simply my meager contribution towards it, nothing more.  I've said this before, I believe: DO with the remap as YOU see fit, and with my wholehearted blessing!
dph

I reposed her a bit and fixed the elbow.
Does this look better?

She looks much more comfortable now...

She looks good in A but also looks like she is floating in the air to me and not actually on the cloth.

My 2 cents.

:)

Clint

I wanted to use the cloth room on the sheet she is posed on.
but when I tried, the sheet disappeared...lol.

Man, I need to learn that cloth room, I do!

 I agree with Clint, the render of Antonia is great but there's no shadows and she's floating. Also I can't tell if her hand actually touches her foot or not, again due to the lack of shadows.

The pose is great, the light .. could be better. Not that I'm any wiz at Poser's lights by  any means, but this just looks wrong.

(please don't get me wrong, I won't say I could do better, but since you were asking for suggestions and she really should look her BEST at a promo.. I'd fix the shadow issue :) )

TrekkieGrrrl, Clint, thank you for the feedback.
I do appreciate it as I want my promos to be the best i can do. :)

It's just a matter of checking, I may have forgotten to show shadows, and re-render.

 I know I've become totally addicted to BB's Soft Studio Lights.. I'm using it as a base for everything now (of course together with VSS now that I finally figured out how to use it!)

You get such NICE light and shadows with that. And since the idea is to show off Antonia in all her glroy.. why not use that? (well there may be a very good reason why not L I can just say that I'm so in love with that PZ3 that I've replaced my default Poser scene with it ^_^)

You're very welcome BlueEcho.

The cloth room is really cool. I've done some neat drape animations with cloth draping over a box or something like that. Its pretty cool.
You should try to play around with it more to see if you can get the cloth so it doesnt disappear when rendered.  ;)

Best of luck!!
Clint

TrekkieGrrrl, I went to BB's site and followed a link to the thread showing the lights.

Now I want to use them, but I only have P7 and can't upgrade at present. sob

Quote - > Quote - It's still your product, so I'm not going to do anything without consulting you first.

It is NOT my product!  Antonia is YOUR project, and AntoniaV3 is simply my meager contribution towards it, nothing more.  I've said this before, I believe: DO with the remap as YOU see fit, and with my wholehearted blessing!
dph

Thank you sir! :thumbupboth: In that case, I'll get it ready and make it available as soon as I'm reasonably certain that I won't make any more changes to Antonia's OBJ file.

I plan to do a free texture set, when Antonias mapping is final and maybe some morphs. She looks very useful. Thanks to all for contributing.

Quote - I did a bit more pose adjusting, changed the light set-up and fixed the hair strands.
Does it look better now?

Give me her phone number and I'll let you know!
dph

Soft Studio Lights? Is that from his tutorial on IDL, TrekkieGrrrl?