I'll have the same as her, but with distressed vintage sprinkles on top.

So all of these figures are derived from the same base figure? Aiko is a Genesis-based figure, correct?

That's really cool! Love the variety of looks and styles.

Wolfsong73 posted at 10:57PM Sun, 23 February 2020 - #4381620

So all of these figures are derived from the same base figure? Aiko is a Genesis-based figure, correct?

That's really cool! Love the variety of looks and styles.

Not all. Aiko 3 is based on V3 and Aiko 4 is based on V4.

ghostship2 posted at 6:36PM Tue, 25 February 2020 - #4381628

Wolfsong73 posted at 10:57PM Sun, 23 February 2020 - #4381620

So all of these figures are derived from the same base figure? Aiko is a Genesis-based figure, correct?

That's really cool! Love the variety of looks and styles.

Not all. Aiko 3 is based on V3 and Aiko 4 is based on V4.

Yep, I use Aiko 3 for most of my work.

Aaaw! Cute!

Kerya posted at 12:39PM Mon, 16 March 2020 - #4383515

Aaaw! Cute!

Thanks! She may be too cute, it'll be a real change to come up with an image worthy of her cuteness.

Oh - so cute! I love the ears.

Quite stunning!

Kerya posted at 3:42PM Thu, 26 March 2020 - #4384559

Oh - so cute! I love the ears.

Thanks! Yep, 280 feet of Aww-dorable! But then it is Sherbet under that monstrous makeover so that's a given. I can't believe how much those tiny spines on her ear tips added to the whole design.

A_Sunbeam posted at 3:58PM Thu, 26 March 2020 - #4384569

Quite stunning!

Thanks! That's what you want from a Kaiju. I mean who wants to see a movie about Meh-zilla?

Finally settled on a look for one of my character's mom. Aiko 3, texture is Reciecup's Venus for V4.2, Lotus for Aiko and Angel of Light for Aiko.(uploaded a dress less version to my gallery also).

It's been a while.

Sweet!

c00L thread ^^.. I love and use A3 still too!

A3 "muse" basic character-setup (wip) for a Blender-scene, I'm working on. Apart from the Hair-Transmap no textures so far; only basic-shaders.

Rendering: Blender/Cycles

She will get adequate footwear as far as possible. ;)

~ Any suggestions are welcome. =)

Lovely girl - and she looks good barefooted ...

Thank you @Kerya =) .. it's actally just a 'facelifting' of a very old char-setup and unfortuantely based on A3LE. I'd like to morph her a bit more, but it's somehow intricate to add morphs to a .pz3 char. Don't know (atm) if it can be made using the good old MorphManager ..

@ethin I like your char-setup of post @4384557 a lot! Looks a bit like something, that could had been made once by Specs2. Would you discribe nearer, what you used here?

This was just a test-char-setup, as I thoughtI I could make an Anime-Contest submission, perhaps .. but .. yeah .. as it seems I could not. ^^ But be that as it may, in this thread are wips and tests allowed ;P ..

A3-Belbel by Yamato, Ashley Hair by Lady Littlefox with Belbel-Morph, Short Coat Set2 A3 by Mamota, Belbel Eye-Textures by Spearcarrier, rendered using VisualStyleShaders in D|S-3DL

MaNae posted at 2:56AM Mon, 13 April 2020 - #4386076

Thank you @Kerya =) .. it's actally just a 'facelifting' of a very old char-setup and unfortuantely based on A3LE. I'd like to morph her a bit more, but it's somehow intricate to add morphs to a .pz3 char. Don't know (atm) if it can be made using the good old MorphManager ..

Should be doable ... save her as a cr2 and then use MorphManager. When I was beginning with DazStudio, I only had A3LE and Hiro (which comes with full morphs). So I used MorphManager to copy Hiro's morphs to A3LE, saving as a new figure. It worked ...

@MaNae and anyone else who might be interested

Well let me see, the products I used are:

Aiko 3

Aiko 3 morphs and maps

Aiko & Hiro Morph Expansion & Horn Pack

Kioki

Sarsa & Thorne's Mila

RawArt's Lizardians

MerTop from Lost Realms

Wet Hair

Universal Horn from Victoria 4.2 Creature Creator Add Ons

Anemone hair for Genesis 2 Female

The mantle and tentacles from DAZ's Octopus

The tail from the Millennium SubDragon LE (or whatever version came free with D|S once upon a time)

SubDragon Hair

Claws from the Skin Wings in V4 Creature Wings

I made the claw props for her hands and feet.

vvv (I use Daz Studio so a bunch of D|S specific Stuff) vvv

A couple of deFormers to create hip crests and add more volume to her inner thighs (standard on all my Aiko3 characters), not that much of the thighs are visible after the addition of the octo skirt.

Lots of scaling of individual body parts.

Mesh Smoothing applied to Aiko with smoothing type set to "Generic" so it will smooth Aiko's current state. Smoothing type "Base Shape Matching" works great on clothes to help maintain seams and wrinkles but can cause unwanted deformation when used on Aiko"s base figure especially to her eyes and chest.

Mesh Smoothing and SubD on most of the "Clothing" items.

On the Skin Wings, Sub Dragon, and Octopus I used the Geometry Editor Tool to select and delete unneeded geometry and then did the same to the rigging with the Joint Editor Tool.

The texture on Aiko consists of varied derivatives of von200's sugar for Lara3, exprssnimg's Zeborah for V3, RawArt's Lizardians(converted using Texture Converter 2) most of which I made for other projects, as well as a bunch of new assets just for this character.

Anything else you would like to know?

Aiko 4

Critique ghostship2, nice render as always. I'd rotate her left eye just a wee bit away from the lacrimal. She seems just a little too bloodshot too. Something I've noticed with your women is that they usually have the lips parted tongue tip visible smile. When I say usually I mean like 99% of the time. Your teeth shaders are always very good but maybe try a little change of expression. The frequency of that expression combined with your focus on photo realistic renders results in a cumulative uncanny valley effect when someone sees your work. Hope my observations aren't taken harshly, it's not my intent.

Bethany at the beach.

Thanks for the feedback. Yeah, I pose the eyes separately and sometimes depending on the camera position and FOV I tend to move the one eye a bit too much.

EldritchCellar posted at 10:41PM Thu, 16 April 2020 - #4386294

Critique ghostship2, nice render as always. I'd rotate her left eye just a wee bit away from the lacrimal. She seems just a little too bloodshot too. Something I've noticed with your women is that they usually have the lips parted tongue tip visible smile. When I say usually I mean like 99% of the time. Your teeth shaders are always very good but maybe try a little change of expression. The frequency of that expression combined with your focus on photo realistic renders results in a cumulative uncanny valley effect when someone sees your work. Hope my observations aren't taken harshly, it's not my intent.

So I did a little census of my render folder and counted somewhere around 130 to 140 OC's made with Aiko3(ok so like 7 of them were Hiro3), 20 of which I created this year!?? Where the crap did they all come from!?

playing around with Aiko 3 and some materials.

Great works!

Here's Aiko4, with considerable non-Anime dialed in.

::::: Opera :::::

Vampirella Aiko 3 Kioki

Aiko 3

A3

and again

Mizuho Aiko 3

Ángel VS Demons Aiko 3

Alita Aiko 3 Robat Cyber by Batlabs

I've loved to see all these Aiko3-based pictures... ? Here is Sylfie, based on Aiko3, and rendered using Octane

Does it take a while to render in octane?

Sweet pictures!

One of the best Aiko portrait renders I've seen, nice

Aiko 3

Aiko 3

Aiko 3

Robot Cyber Aiko 3

Y-Phil posted at 6:24PM Wed, 20 May 2020 - #4389583

I've loved to see all these Aiko3-based pictures... ? Here is Sylfie, based on Aiko3, and rendered using Octane

Great Sylfie portrait, @Y-Phil !

@William_Rivera - Like the Alita Battle Angel!

Aiko 3 is Intergalactic Ángel Jyuna

Original superheroine

William_Rivera posted at 3:30PM Thu, 21 May 2020 - #4389596

Does it take a while to render in octane?

Not at all: Octane is the very best way to benefit from nvidia's video cards... All it takes, from Poser (and probably from D|S): the plugin convert the basic material into its own mat settings. From there, you may buy awesome stuff such as RedSpecTGX' settings and adapt them to your character. From time to time, I use another Third Party program: HighLight Studio, which is a gem for anything that concerns the way to lit a scene (not used in this scene). As often, there's a learning path but once you're accustomed, it's fairly easy

Kerya posted at 3:36PM Thu, 21 May 2020 - #4389635

Sweet pictures!

Thanks