Okay, I had way too much fun with the Village People images, and I'm sure there are more than a couple of people glad that particular imagery series is done. But at the same time there are a lot of groups out there just screaming to be Poserized: the Grateful Dead, Metallica, Aqua, and yes, even Banarama. Wouldn't take much: all the necessary props are out there to create almost anyone you wanted. It'd just mean a little texture building work here and there, more than anything else. So here's the idea. Create your Poser hommage to your favourite band. No restrictions on era, but it must be a rock band or rock solo performer. Postwork is more than allowed (There was more postwork in the VP stuff than I care to admit.). The ONLY musical group off limits is Robert Palmer and his "back up band" for Addicted to Love 'cause that one's mine, you hear? Mine! Finally, it has to be a real band or performer. Now, just to make this interesting, I'll contact the editors at Rolling Stone and tell them about this and see if they'd be interested in maybe doing a story on the entries and Poser and Rsity. Chances are pretty good that they will, so consider that an incentive. But what I do not want to hear is "Oh my work isn't good enough for that..." Bulltwinkies. Quit yer whinin' and just sit down and frigging do it, okay? You've listened to Annie Lennox for years; now's yer chance to show her how much you love her... And yep, there'll be a prize for this one. No idea just what yet, but something appropriate. And as before, everyone who enters will get something just for having the guts to enter. Deadline for entries: April 13, noon Rsity time. Entries are to be posted in this thread. Rock on, folks.

starts looking for a Freddie Mercury mustache - and Brian May hair!! ;)

I have a question, do we post the images in this thread, or in the gallery with a header about the contest?

You can either post in this thread or post with a link to a gallery image, but either way, the info has to be here. It keeps everything together in one place.

Papu... I don't think we'll find enough morphs to make Michael as thin as Brian May giggle

LOL Eowyn, maybe we can use Stephanie ;)

Now this contest is cool, only who to pick? This shall be very interesting. How many entries can we post? Tashar 59

I am so into this, I just started working on mine. The Supremes! Yay! JDexter

lol geesh okay rock and roll, hate to admit it but I am a country music fan! I will see if I can come up with something though :)

Nothing wrong with country music, I love it and I am British. Rock and roll, now there I have to really think.

Thanks Chohole! Glad I'm not the only Country Fan :)

Remember 'Flock of Seagulls', now there's some challenging hair!

Tell you what, we'll open it a little bit. Any music form that has been covered in Rolling Stone is acceptable. Country, soul, r&r, even classical (if you want to model Yo-Yo Ma and his cello, go for it: RS interviewed him a couple of years ago). But it has to be music-oriented. And let's say one entry per: I wanna see some hard work put into this. (::cracking that whip::) <-- Oh God, it's a Devo moment!

Oh my, You come up with such fun ideas. Now, will I get any of my real work done with this on my mind. lol

O man, if there was ever a band that has the personality to be poserised it's Gaelic Storm but I doubt their style of music has ever had a mention in Rolling Stone. Heck I've even got the Daz violin so it would just be a matter of modeling (finding?) a Guinness can and bodhran. :)

Kendra, you just might be surprised. Hmm. The Guinness can be found as part of the REMC Fat Guy Pack at 3d-cc.com. There's part of the solution, anyway.

Great contest VS - how 'bout this? I will sponsor any one item from my store as the first prize. VirtualSite can inform me who the winner is... whadya think? d

That's real generous of you, DW, and you're definitely on. Hmm... can I create a new persona, enter, and then declare myself the winner? Nah, they'd see through that in a second. Shoot.

Im in. I think I can do one...but who..Oh I dunno maybe madonna. Yeah madonna it is. :)

RnRWoman has a nice Bono character - wonder if that will be entered?

As I said earlier on in the thread, everyone who enters will receive a small prize of some kind. I figure, if you're gonna have the guts to do this, you oughta receive something for your trouble. And it's fun, trust me. I did a render with it last night, and it's way cool. But our grand prize winner? In addition to Dark Whisper's generous offer (and DW has some very cool stuff, folks -- check it out), you'll also receive a KISS-style body texture for the Poser character of your choice AND a pack of t-shirt textures from some of the great rock concerts and musical events ever, ranging from the original Woodstock and the last Grateful Dead tour to this season's opening of the Metropolitan Opera (always a reason for celebration, right?).

mine is proveing to be a real bitch to do. :( Im racking my brain trying to figure out who your guy is. LOL.

Kewl - is that Rod?

DW yep thats suppose to be rod stewart :)

Ray Charles :)

Wow, those images are great, Pokeydots you really have that Rod Stewart look down! Especially with the hair! :) Great expression with your image Scarab, I like it! Mine is almost done as well-did three different ones before I decided which artist to do..hopefully it'l be done today or tomorrow.

Thanks Rasputin, can't wait to see yours :)

For a giggle and nothing more, let's put together a mass concert image, sort of a "Remember the Chickens and Let the Chickens Run Free" kind of thing (an old SNL joke: points to anyone who remembers it). To accomplish this, I'll ask you to create a full body render, front camera view set for 50mm, with an image height of 700 pixels, under Poser standard ambient light. Save the render as a .tif file so there's an alpha channel to work with. Standard grey background only. The pose you use is up to you, but I'd suggest whatever pose you're using in your entry. No props unless they're used by the character, like Ray Charles would come with his piano, and the image would contain the entire piano as well as Ray. Send the .tif to virtuasite@aol.com, and I'll composite all entries into a final Poser concertpiece as part of the everyone-gets-one prize.

hmmm only problem is I didn't save my Rod character :(

Nor I, Ray....could recomposite the .jpg with a piano, though...I suppose. Scarab

The Supremes.

Please, be kind to me. ;)

JDexter

wow there are alot of good entrys here!!

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wow serpentis, great choice and wonderfuly executed!

These are really good. I'm in total awe :-) Someone did an amazing David Bowie awhile back but I can't remember the name of the fellow who did it.

Tilandra

Very cool. I tracked down the original because I wasn't familiar with the album. I don't even want to know what was involved in getting that shirt to fit. :)

Heh heh, you're right.... you don't want to know :) Lets just say the air around here turned blue for a while. Tilandra

Dam I love that rick springfeid album! I think bono is spot on! All of these rock. sorry my madonna wasnt as good as she could have been. I was tired. LOL. I did a better one awhile back but thought i would try to do a new one for the contest. all In all I think this was a really fun idea.

Wow all of the images so far are fantastic! Way to go everyone :)

GREAT entries everyone! Good luck! : )