I came across this series of books a few months back, first published in 2016, and was wondering if anyone might be familiar. Other than the cover, no illustrations.

A friend thought she'd seen a movie of it, but other than an animagraphic promoting the book, nada on searching for that.  Visually, story, & characters would work well in that medium too, I'd think.

Jules Vernian Steampunk to say the least.

I might take a stab at making something like this, but sure would be nice to see something like this in the store.

OMG that looks similar to cinder spire ships!
Oh if someone made one of those....

This is sort of steam punky to me. Try the following designers you will might something similar 1971s, Cybertenko, and Pamawo.  I think with a bit of kit bashing you might get something very similar.

I've a number of each of those artist products and that kinda what I was thinking.

The author is local as well and might contact him. He's into steampunk as well and who knows what might come of that.

Been playing around with some things on this actually; you know, what iffing

Came across this item recently:

The Storm Riders Airship https://www.daz3d.com/the-storm-riders-airship

And one thing led to another.

Already had, so tried parts from The Virginia Sloop, https://www.daz3d.com/armed-virginia-sloop

and that worked pretty well.

Also, just happened to notice this postage stamp size image on the back side of the book jacket; I'm guessing this would be Arabella. (Had to massage it a bit in Topaz Photo AI).  Copyright of book is 2016, so any guesses on who this character & what wardrobe this might be from around that time?

Very nice.

Had a go at the character. This is with Ensley, an 8.0 figure, but is relatively new, (Release date of 2020-04-12), but might try with Elora which is actually newer by 2 weeks.

But I did come up with a better technique (at least for me) for making HatHair morphs specific to the hat and hair involved, once exported.

Very nice.

Thanks GGreen

Thought it might be of interest to post a "Prior" shot ...

Might tweek the hair a bit more, but with the hat it's sort of moot.

I have found in many cases with working with caps/hats it takes a bit of tweaking.

True, but I'm honing in on it.

In Lightwave, it's an additional moving target with the surfacing.  The render engine was changed with 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020 and most recently 2023/24 with the new owners. I'm using 2020.

But, it's all in flux no matter what; ya picks the Devil thats ya knows. ;)

True.