My mouse button hurts! I must have a blonde finger...

I read once that the "Coppertone Girl" image was a favorite among creeps, so there's no "safe" level of child nudity (or context it seems) when a subject like this becomes an issue.

BTW: Wasn't Jody Foster the original Coppertone Girl?
(I think it's brilliant image by the way - almost Rockwellian.)

uh, edited because I just realised that saying I think the image is brilliant, makes me sound like one of the "creeps" referenced earlier - eek! The issue was that it was favoured as a "trigger" image for their fantasies and sometimes even attacks. Nasty Stuff.

Message edited on: 03/21/2005 14:40

Message edited on: 03/21/2005 14:41

Hi Anthony - I can't show the pic at the moment, because it's still in the "messy" stage - but it's a combination of digital photograph (the figure), mixed with 3D elements (the Backpack and tubes, the environ and the giant mutant bug) - but in case you're confused, I actually inverted the Oxy Tanks so the valves/connections sit at the top and are higher than the figure's shoulders...a bit like the Ghostbusters backpacks I guess? But anyway, it allows me to show all that lovely detail! I'll certainly mail you a copy (or at least a link) when I I get it finished - there will be quite a bit of postwork I think, to get all the elements to slot together cheers

I had a look at the file I used, and it's actually your OxyTorch/Backpack prop - because the figure in the picture is facing forward, I wanted a backpack with some connections and details that would poke out from behind him, heheh...I have the tubes running into a futuristic-looking gun - the fellow is supposed to be an exterminator of giant mutant bugs. I saw the movie "The Life Aquatic" the other day - I think you might like some of cool retro-styled scuba gear they use in it. It's a very strange, fun film.

I've got a pic halfway done using the twin-cannister flamethrower (or is that just a sprayer of some kind?) - anyway, I was blown away by the articulation you built into the tubes/feedlines - amazing! When I get my pic finished I'll email you a link. Might not be for a month or so though!!

oh man, I hope didn't come off like some sort of grump! Thanks again to Stoney for the awesome Cave! Thanks to Becco for the Real Flow pointer! I'll slink away now...

looks interesting - remember to credit Stonemason who built the Dragon Lair: it's a great piece of work cheers

Where can we find our runner-up certificates? Cheers

I have two pics up: thumb #1 shows a male face and thumb #2 shows a female face : female face pic gets more than twice the hits - perhaps a face invites further viewing in case any undeclared nudity or general skin is present in the full size pic? I am begining to believe there is an "art" to creating an good thumbnail...on other sites where I've got stuff uploaded, the "harder-to-make-out" I've made a thumbnail, the less hits it gets - say if the pic is a full-length figure and the thumbnail is just a reduction of that (rather than say an isolated bit of interesting detail) - no one can tell how great the art is and so miss out on enjoying the full image - the fools - I pity them!!! cheers, great topic!

I know there are a set of rules for figure balancing in sculpture and painting called "Contra-posto" or "Counter Poise" - where certain parts of the body have to line up vertically to create stability etc...it might be an automated implimentation of that methodology perhaps? If so - Cool!!

no probs, my pleasure! heheh

Skygirl, you should hold a little forum competition for a new site name : I'll go first - "Poseable-Polygon-Super-Fantastic-Free-Site" best wishes, your freebies were awesome Cheers

Skygirl indicated that the situation arose because she and her partner asked permission to use "poser" in the site-name - CL said no - it wasn't a "crack down" - so we can assume the best way to get "Poser" included in your site-name is to NOT ASK permission from CL then hope they don't notce or bother about it til a few years have passed and the trademark protection lapses - However, if people DO ask, the proviso(spelling?) of including the a nice big badged link to CL and Poser homepage would be a good idea. But, in the end, I guess saying "no" outright to any requests saves them alot of hassle - because if a site gets "official" CL support, then CL would have to keep checking back all the time to make sure the site doesn't go all poser-p*rn or anything...or write up contracts setting out ToS and whatnot...

and remember that a 3D Object isn't really an "object" it's a bunch of co-ordinate data/code and Data/Code = Software. If you're able to claim purchasing of 3D models for your work, you list them as "Software" in your tax statements too.

Had a look at the final Poser 6 info on CL website: thought maybe they'd been planning something of their own called "Poser Free Store" - but doesn't look like it - the new Content Paradise's Free Stuff area is just called "Free Stuff"