anyone know whats happened ?  I get a message "administratively disabled by bondware" .

Typically that means the page was suspended because the account lapsed in a payment.

"This site is administratively disabled. If you are a visitor, please contact the site administrator
for assistance. If you are the site administrator, please submit a support ticket withBondware Support if you feel you are receiving this message in error."

Hi this could Also mean the Sanctumart inc. has Deactivated the site themselves
as they were the site "Administrators"

Not surprising as the site has not been updated in at least three years.

Oh well.... Glad I grabbed everything I wanted from them (including Horde) as their  poser content Era seems to have finally ended for good.

Cheers

Poser sites come and go...some last as long as the higher-numbered Actinide elements...;)

No one could make demons like Sanctumart, and no one had better...

I agree Paloth

I also noticed they havnt updated in a while

Quote - No one could make demons like Sanctumart, and no one had better...

So very true

Cheers

Cheers

Nice work wolf359

I'm another big fan of Sanctum's stuff.  Shame they're not around now.

Wolf, that's a superb render. 

"Wolf, that's a superb render. "

Thanks!

I used Vray in Cinema4D.

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Great render, wolf359!  SA's stuff was CG movie quality modeling and texturing.  Even if the website manages to come back in some form, their poser era does indeed appear finished.  Current economics don't support the time investment for producing models of that quality.  The poser community won't see anything at the level of Horde or GRIM again.

hmmm,  Aery Soul, gone. Santum arts, gone.  Making high quality Poser content just does not seem to pay well enough. Or maybe they just like playing video games?

Aery Soul relocated over to RDNA. And yeah, Poser Content does not pay anywhere near enough to make a living wage for the huge majority of creators.

If I recall, less than 20% make more than $20,000 a year doing it full time, and most can barely make minimum wage.

AerySoul not totally disappeared.  Under a new name, AlfaseeD, new content can be found exclusively @ RuntimeDNA.  Unfortunately, a new website has not yet materialized.

Edit: Oops, crossposted with Gareee.

Quote - hmmm,  Aery Soul, gone. Santum arts, gone.  Making high quality Poser content just does not seem to pay well enough. Or maybe they just like playing video games?

Poser merchants suffer from the effects of rampant piracy. When people don't get paid for the weeks or months spent creating their work, they stop producing. Who can blame them?

Where's Ayn Rand when you need her? Down in the cellar eatin' sauer kraut? Save me some, I love the stuff. Especially with potatoes and sausages.....umm hmm.

Quote - ... Or maybe they just like playing video games?

Oh wait, that's me x.x;

Quote - > Quote - hmmm,  Aery Soul, gone. Santum arts, gone.  Making high quality Poser content just does not seem to pay well enough. Or maybe they just like playing video games?

 

Poser merchants suffer from the effects of rampant piracy. When people don't get paid for the weeks or months spent creating their work, they stop producing. Who can blame them?

Where's Ayn Rand when you need her? Down in the cellar eatin' sauer kraut? Save me some, I love the stuff. Especially with potatoes and sausages.....umm hmm.

This, and many users of poser and daz simply don't know or understand how good they have it.  If you were to commission such a project like one of the RD phenotypes (assuming you can even find a high end CG level artist willing to model/texture/rig for poser), we're talking 10-20K ballpark.

Poser content is VERY cheap, compared to the costs involved in making some of these items.  I expect if piracy and other factors continue, other high end content makers (Stonemason, etc.) may be forced to throw in the towel as well. 

I've been a slacker doing real life props n such... but I am working on some poser work.

Here's a non poser project i just completed:

The only thing that comes to mind is "WOW!!!!"  and "Too bad that isn't for Poser!"

Quote - I've been a slacker doing real life props n such... but I am working on some poser work.

Here's a non poser project i just completed:

what comes to mind seeing her is "they did'nt study anatomy did they?"...but thats been said many times when bayonetta's been talked about....

I really liked the gunboots she has. The guns are also very detailed. The video game its based off of has very stylized graphics.... those alone were worth the ride, but the soundtrack is killer, and the entire thing is over 5 HOURS long. I played the soundtrack while working on her probably 80% of the time.

Nice job, Gareee.  I loved the entire universe Hideki Kamiya created in bayonetta.  An idea that may have looked silly on paper, just "works" so well in game.  Great visual style.

Quote - I really liked the gunboots she has. The guns are also very detailed. The video game its based off of has very stylized graphics.... those alone were worth the ride, but the soundtrack is killer, and the entire thing is over 5 HOURS long. I played the soundtrack while working on her probably 80% of the time.

 Looks very good. What is she made of? Is this a kind of clay?

That's awesome Gareee :) Fimo? Cernit?

Laurie

Yeah! Your "statue" looks as awesome as anything in my Spawn action figure collection!

Actually that almost looks like ceramic. Is it?

Laurie

Quote - His texturing alone put his models head& shoulders above most poser content.

 

 

Cheers

Awesome render and SanctumArts stuff is good, but I think I'd rather forgo that stuff if it means I'm gonna be accused of piracy every other day because I might happen to have a different screen name on another website ;).

Laurie

"I'm gonna be accused of piracy every other day because I....."

 Oh my...And here I thought All the  Pavlovian, Ultra-orthodox Evangelical . Anti-Sanctumart Jihaddist's  only hunkered over in the Daz forums.

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Well, you gotta admit, they did go overboard ;).

I don't have any SanctumArts stuff. Never did. I was not one of the ppl they accused...lol.

Laurie

Yeah Micheal Rak's (S.A.) "Customer relations" record Was Abysmal to put it kindly.

But overall any true Material "harm" he may have done to peoples Feelings  Does
Not ,IMHO, Justify the Cult of HATE that Surrounds the Man.

To the point where the mere mention of his name in the DAZ Forums, Brings out all manner of melodramatic testimony & Sworn Vows Against his products
from Angry Activists Sympathetic to the now Mythical Horrors Endured by his Alleged "Victims"
LOL!!!

Cheers

Bayonetta is actually a mixture of materials. She stands about 19" tall, and is made from solid resin, clear resin, cast metal, and photo etched metal.

Resin is much like ceramic, but it can be heated and bent, unlike ceramic. Even her hair ribbon are resin, and were shaped with a heat gun.

I was in Poser Pros community when the furor over S.A.'s policy blew up.

I don't know what happened to the website. If they have in fact closed up shop I'm sad.  While I was not a fan of their work as it is not my preferred genre, they did have a fan following.  And despite the controversy they generated at times with their customer service and odd terms of usage, it is always sad to hear that a long time artist is disappearing from the community.

Attached Link: Spawn Action figures forums

Really nice detail sculpting on her facial features Gareee. I bet if you posted these pics in the Spawn.com forums you get some buy offers on her. There are some mad serious collectors over there.

I was a spawn figures member going back to when it was created.. LOL! I actually have a silver test pull of the McFarlane Dawn figure, and a few prototype pulls of items, liek the deluxe cy-gor head, and the terminator head. (Since they never released the arni terminator, thats a cool collectable, and its 1:6 scaled!)

Chet (The Toy GUY) And Steve the victim are personal freinds.

That said, with at least 60 hours into this statue, and the initial cost of it, odds are I'd have to sell it for at least $1000. The original unpainted kit alone cost $400 US.

And back to the topic, while I liked SAs craftsmanship, I disliked thier attitue so much I never bought on item from them as a result. When it comes to artists and art, the personality is almost as important as the creation to me.

I simply won't support people who are jerks.

You could get a grand easily Gareee. My dad's a dollmaker and you wouldn't believe what some of that stuff sells for. I used to work for Dollreader Magazine and you wouldn't believe what some of that stuff sells for...lmao.

Laurie

I'm not sure even that much would encourage me to recreate another for us.

I was diagnosed with diabetes severely last year, and almost died in the hosptital. (Some of you might recall me mentioning it.)

In a VERY odd stroke of luck, a combination of severe diet and timing rebooted my system apparantly, and I no longer need to take any medication, and all symptoms are virtially gone! VERY bizarre, and the entire thing has made no sense to any of my Drs at all. By all counts, I shoulda had massive organ failure last year. (They finally clocked me at 1628 glucose, 3 times what normally puts people in comas.)

The only exception, is my vsion has been screwed up. It changes over the course of the day, so one pair of glasses can't really hack that, so I ended up using 2 sets of magnification glasses for 1 foot or less, and another pair for 3 foot away or so.

I wasn't even sure if I could do work like this anymore, so its kind of a personal achievement for me.

Thanks for the kind praise though, guys! Makes me proud.

Prolly my best McFarlane finds are the Movie Maniacs 18" Edward Scissorhands (still in the box) and the entire set of Clive Barker's Infernal Parade.

Congrat's on your recovery Gareee, that sounds like...a miracle!

Yeah.. its really remakable.

I love the larger Mandarin Spawn figs. I still need two of the gals from infernal parade, i think.

My large Edward is open and proudly on display!

Does Edward's motion sensor work very well?  I'm sure I'll open the box one of these days lol.

Quote - I was a spawn figures member going back to when it was created.. LOL! I actually have a silver test pull of the McFarlane Dawn figure

He is one of my favourite artists, and I am a huge fan of his Dawn work!

Quote - I'm not sure even that much would encourage me to recreate another for us.

I was diagnosed with diabetes severely last year, and almost died in the hosptital. (Some of you might recall me mentioning it.)

In a VERY odd stroke of luck, a combination of severe diet and timing rebooted my system apparantly, and I no longer need to take any medication, and all symptoms are virtially gone! VERY bizarre, and the entire thing has made no sense to any of my Drs at all. By all counts, I shoulda had massive organ failure last year. (They finally clocked me at 1628 glucose, 3 times what normally puts people in comas.)

The only exception, is my vsion has been screwed up. It changes over the course of the day, so one pair of glasses can't really hack that, so I ended up using 2 sets of magnification glasses for 1 foot or less, and another pair for 3 foot away or so.

I wasn't even sure if I could do work like this anymore, so its kind of a personal achievement for me.

Thanks for the kind praise though, guys! Makes me proud.

Sounds like you were flirting with Diabetic Ketoacidosis. When I was diagnosed, my blood glucose was over 700, and I was in for a major myocardial infarction, which resulted in 6 way bypass. Oddly I never lost consciousness in either case. What very nearly ended this life, was aggressive anal cancer

For glasses, may I suggest those multifocal blended lenses? I will be getting those at the end of August. Without Transitions, they run around $200/pair for the lenses.

Any idea where I can purchase the "Horde"?  I have a commission piece and that would be perfect!  Sucks that he's gone.  Is he selling else where?

Quote - Any idea where I can purchase the "Horde"?  I have a commission piece and that would be perfect!  Sucks that he's gone.  Is he selling else where?

Nope Gone for good ..Sorry

Cheers

Horde is actually modeled after a real-life creature who got loose and unfortunately ate all the SanctumArts peeps. T.T

I liked Sanctum arts models very much. I actually bought them. I thought their prices were good for the high level of quality. It is sad that they are gone.  VAP Grim is my favorite.