Recently I was working on a model for a new clothing pack I'm releasing in the next month or so, and thought it necessary to compare the styles between the new one, and the old. The old boot (background) here was modeled about a year ago for the Warlords Collection: Michael 2 Barbarian, and the one in the foreground here is for the newest pack I'm working on. For those of you who have the old one and are wondering, the straps are removable on the new one (as is the morph there that has the boot bulging out around the straps) The real point of this is I guess to open up a new discussion here and get others to post some comparisons, so we can all see how much we've grown as artists over the past year. Additionally, of course, I'd like some comments as to the overall design, too, as I am currently working on a new version of last year's Barbarian for the upcoming Michael 3, completely rebuilt from scratch.

Here's another post, this time without straps.

Hey wow these are great...Sharen

Looks good to me!

Hrrrrrmmmmmm... with or without.. they both look good... I presume they fit the model without having to invis the toes? 8 ) but, based of work you've done with the comics heros, I'd say that these will be just as impressive.. thank ye

Yah, wizzard, just as with my previous Barbarian release at DAZ last year, you do not have to invis the toes... In each of these pictures, the one on the left is the old one from last year's release, and the one on the right is the NEW boots, which are a serious upgrade from the previous. You'll see this new Barbarian being released around the same time as Mike 3, and be the first of hopefully many complete character packages available I build for him.

Hmm. Comparison of groth as modellers? This pic is from March 2002, my third Poser prop ever (and my fourth model ever).

Err, growth even. This pic is the currently unreleased Luke/Anakin Lightsabre Special Edition

Both pictures are Poser with no postwork except compositing on the latter.

BTW, the second, which is smoother, has none of that smoothing-around-the-corner stuff, and doesn't have any weird polyholes of denenerate facets: 1798 polys. The first, which has all those horrble things above: 7162 polys.

LOL, that's one hell of a comparison.... I don't even want to know how that first one pushed nearly 8000 polies... ;) Big difference :D

One word. Booleans B^P I know better now.

Ahhhhh Yep, those'll get you every time.