While not quite as fluffy, I have both subspecies Long-tailed Tit in my Songbird ReMix European Edition set. 

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One of the best ways to tell what's been updated now is to look at my SongbirdReMix.com page.  Recently, I flipped around the huge list on that page to "what's left" (not updated yet). If you're looking if specific sets have been updated there's two ways... my webpage store can tell you or you can look through my store at Renderosity (every description of a product says on of two things; "This product was completely updated in late September 2021 to include..." or "NOTE: This product is still in the "old" Songbird ReMix format. It will be upgraded to..."

As for spreadsheets, the online tool found in the new sets in the "Bird Library" folder called "! Bird Finder" links to an Excel (xls) file kept on my website.  This file has every bird subspecies (including subspecies and variants) created in Songbird ReMix format (both updated and non-updated).  The spreadsheet tells you exactly where to find the birds in the new library system so you don't have to be an ornithologist or advanced birder. The reason I have chosen to keep this file in xls format for users is to help them my bird library system.  It shows you exactly what folder to find the birds in and because it's in xls format you can sort it to your own needs.  For example, recently I had someone comment they liked the old library format because they wanted only birds from a specific region (e.g. S America).  Using "Bird Finder", you can sort by the "Continent/Region" column and get ALL the birds I've done that are found in S America (not just from "Amazon", not from the "Toucans" and "Parrots" sets, etc). Want only endangered birds?  No problem, you can sort by the "R-E-D" column and then sub-sort by "Continent/Region".

Here's a couple before and afters on some of the sets I'm updating...

From Cool and Unusual Birds v2...

From Yucatan...

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I'll be doing a webinar on July 17th (1pm PST) called "Digital Nature" via Zoom. My 90 minute talk will include my background, art and life as a freelance artist artist plus focuses on my approaches to 3D digital bird-making, techniques and a crash course in composition and marketing.

https://digitalartlive.com/event/poser-environmental-art-with-ken-gilliland/

My update to Songbird ReMix Australia v1 is now available. I'm often jaded by the volume of work and repetitive checking in creating my sets, but even I did a "wow" as I was replaced the old versions images with the new ones in the store.

I've put it, plus the updated Australia v2 and Bowerbird set on 30% off sale for a couple weeks to reintroduce them. Australia v3 will be updated at the start of next year since I need to update all seabirds first. Australia v4 (the Lyrebird set) is almost finished with its beta, and after QA testing at Renderosity, will appear as well (I'm guessing 4th of Julyish).

My Nature's Wonders Cicada set is moving along and will probably start betas around the time Lyrebirds is released. That will allow me to start work on what I'm really excited to start, the updates to Amazon and Yucatan, as well as Second Edition and Cool and Unusual Birds v2. Somewhere it July/August, I'll probably squeeze in a new Bee-eaters and/or Kingfisher set too.!

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My Renderosity "Vendor of the Month" sale is finally here!...

Here's a couple more "now and then" comparisons on Australia v1 has I work through updating the set...

a little before and after on the Australia v1 I'm updating....

Both Songbird ReMix Australia v2 and SBRM Art Treasures from the Bowerbird Collection are updated and out at 30% off.

First of all, thank-you to all who participated in my Audubon's Birthday Sale. We managed to help save a lot of Tri-colored Blackbirds!

I've given both the updated Australia v2 and Art Treasures from the Bowerbird Collection to my testers, so I'll now look at what key SBRM models I have to convert to unlock more updated sets-- I think it's the Syndactyl (aka Kingfisher) and Hummingbird models which will make the following updates possible: Second Edition, Cool and Unusual 2, Yucatan, Amazon, Australia v1 and, of course, both Hummingbird sets. I still hope to finish the seabird sets by the end of summer. And then, it's a matter of updating the models for the single sets (flamingos, pelicand, jacanas, dodo).

Here's an Iray render of the bowerbirds (Australia v2) and Art Treasures...

My Audubon's Birthday Sale is here. The two new products, Paridae of the World and Woodpeckers v2, plus on the five updates; Africa, Cool and Unusual Birds v1, European Edition v2, Pose Pack 2 and Woodpeckers v1 are live!.

33% (or more) of my proceeds from the sale will go to Audubon in support of their $5/5 Birds program. This program compensates farmers to delay their wheat harvests, so that the endangered Tri-colored Blackbirds, who nest in the fields have the extra time for their nestlings to fledge and avoid being "harvested". Every dollar given saves at least one endangered bird.

Thanks, I'm expecting the update/re-release of Australia v2 to be out early-mid May. From there, I'll be focusing on the Kingfisher model makeover which will unlock Australia v2, Second Edition, Cool and Unusual v2, Amazon and Yucatan for their re-releases. Over the summer, I'm start working on the updates for Seabirds.

Speaking of updates, five Songbird ReMix volumes are one week away from their re-releases. Those sets are: Africa, Cool and Unusual Birds (v1), European Edition v2, Woodpeckers (v1) and Pose Pack v2. All are significantly better, if not almost unrecognizable from the original versions; with improved geometry, morphs and rigging, enhanced or totally redone 4k texture maps, Iray/SF support, native DS/Poser versions and additional new content in every set.

Thanks... There's a Hivewire Artists Welcome Sale going on. Please support my fellow HW PAs that have moved to Renderosity. Why am I not participating in the sale? Well, it's a little too close Audubon's birthday for me to participate.

I'm steadily working my way through the Australia v2 update... here's a promo page showing the redone Australasian Robins. As with the comparison, I shared above with the Pipit, the changes while subtle are significant, making the birds look more like their real-life counterparts and less like 3D models.