Lil' Dragon, you were 800 when you started with computers? I am VERY impressed!! My first computer experience was with a hole punch and a two foot thick stack of cards trying to figure out how to get that box in the sterile room (which was the size of a REAL car, not one of these new ones) to add 2 + 2 and come out with 4. My first PC was a Commodore 64 with tape drive, and eventually the floppy drive. I purchased it at the university bookstore and was one of the first dozen folks here to own their own computer. I've been using Poser for about three years now. I was working for the campus webmaster who had a degree in computer graphics and one day he said "here, try this..." and I've been addicted ever since. Oh, and I turn 50 this year...not so venerable as Lil' Dragon, but I've seen computers develop from the original building-sized to the new pocket-sized. It still amazes me that we went to the moon and back on less computing power that my first Commodore!

Jon, you are a brilliant and talented graphic artist and I would like to take a moment just to say thanks for all that you've given the community. Your characters from 3DCC were some of the first I was introduced to and I cherish them still. Here's to hoping you are able to make your way back to the community. I feel certain that when you show up, it's gonna be in a big way!

I've got the Nautilus. It's absolutely incredible. I'm still learning how to best utilize it but it's a definate top of my "love to tinker with" list.

Just one word...WOW!

Happy Birthday Sharen!! From your fans out here in the great beyond, I hope you live as long as you want to, and want to as long as you live. Tony O

This is lovely! As always, quality work.

I can hardly wait for the next installment. I'm saving these and will print them out when I get to the lazer printer after while and put them in a notebook to keep next to the computer. Thanks, Doc! You are incredible!!

Explaining my Poser addiction to Muggles is like explaining what I do at the university to the administrative staff. They usually just stand there and look at me in a professional but confused way, nod a couple of times, say "right..." and wander off to find more easily understood people to annoy

Where might that forum be?

Er....wow. I wonder what the heck is going on and where this is all going to end up?

Disney has the most predatory legal department on the planet. They've been known to sue elementry school students over fund raising projects that had something that could be loosely interpreted as their copyrighted images on them. And yet, somehow, the current administration sees nothing wrong with allowing hundreds of millions of copyright violations in Disney images, software, music, and publications that come in from China...because they have "favored nation" status. Sue your own for a cookie sale, ignore the dragon at the gates.

OH, this is wonderful! I love the concept and the image. All that's missing is the street sign for Whitechappel and a small red stain on the cobblestones... Where did the props come from?

Yep, we're a weird bunch over here some times. Several years ago Marvel Comics tried to pull a stunt on the Library of Congress when they submitted around 2500 mock-up comic book covers with computer generated titles based around the words "X-(anything), Amazing (anything), Astounding (anything)." At that time the rules for copyright said all you had to do was have a projected project and you could copyright its title and logo. They projected over 2500 new comic titles trying to keep anyone else in the world from using the above ideas. They got caught, they got, as my students say, "bitch slapped" by congress and a very substantial fine for their arrogance. We're even being told that we have to be careful citing material in scholarly research now because we can be sued for copyright infringment. That's going to make a huge impact on research in the future if the ruling is allowed to stand.

Lovely! I can hardly wait.

I like the name Byzantine Queen. It's opulent, gives a sense of history (the boat is a classic), it has elegance and it rolls off the tongue well when spoken.