I am working on a winter fun image and am at a stand still. Need some comments/crits. All Bryce, modeled the cobblestones, snowman, and walls for snowball fighting myself. Trees are from Treelab. The volumetric snow mat was a free download I picked up a couple of years ago.... not sure who made it. If it is yours I thank you for it. 8) Thanks in advance for your ideas. Wade

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Looks great! If you have poser, this needs children playing, making the snowman, throwing snowballs from those forts in the background, pulling each other on the sled.

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Ah yes, I second tjohn on the children. This is coming along quite nicely, maybe some snow material on the trees themselves here and there perhaps. Or also perhaps a light snow flurry coming down.

Very nice Wade, I can see those cobblestones of yours being used far and wide. 8)

Nicely done so far.....don't you need falling snow in the foreground too?

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Looks great thus far. I agree possibly about kids play, but some foot steps in the snow would be a nice detail to add. Maybe a 'yellow' snow patch by a tree :) Also, you might want to consider tilting some of the trees just slightly--having them all standing perfectly upright doesn't seem right. Can't wait to see more!

OH, this looks wonderful...Sharen

Had to look at this again. I find it charming. The lyrics to Winter Wonderland keep running through my head: "...in the meadow, we can build a snowman."

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy

I agree on the snow falling in the foreground. You need that. A great way to get snow in your trees is to take the snow and mud terrain material, change the brown of the mud into a nice dark green, and apply the material to your tree. If you don't have Poser (and I don't, so I do this a lot), see if you can't get some neighborhood kids to pose for you in costume on a cloudy day and insert them as picture planes.

Could be worse, could be raining.

really nice work i agree with the snow in the foreground. im from miami, but also how abot some arms and buttons for your snowman? or maybe a deer or some woodland creature in the background? ghostryder

This is looking real "Wintery" Swade! I don't have anything to add as far as ideas, but I look forward to seeing your progress on this.

Thanks for the ideas everyone. All are good ideas. Tjohn... I am going to do what I can with the human element. Had thought about kids and snowballs etc. Will do what I can with this element. Not real good with poser. But there is always a time to learn some more eh? heh heh heh Quest... The snow on the trees is something I need for sure and some snow falling in the foreground. Catlin.... I am really glad that people are using the cobblestones. That is why I shared them. 8) mloates... As you requested, I am going to add a yellow patch of snow by one of the trees or where ever it fits in. As for the tilted trees, you have a good point there. I will tip a few of them. rickymaveety... Thanks for the tip on inserting the picture planes. Hadn't thought of that. Might be an option here. Battleangel21... I had thought of using a cat or dog or rabbit for a four footed element in this image. 8) Thanks to all of you for your valued input. You have given me some new ideas to work with. Will post another WIP when I get these things accomplished. 8)

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I was thinking of a winter scene myself. Being from Minnesota and all. I went on a hunt to find some winter coats for Poser and came up empty handed. Anybody know where I could get such freebies? Swade, great job on this scene. I just looked out the window to two inches of fresh snow. Now it starts, ish.

Lol@kimpe.... I know. Ish is right. I like the snow but not the bitter cold. I live in Sioux Falls, SD and we had 3 inches of fresh white snow this morning when I went to work. Freezing rain at noon. That sucked. In regards to your question about coats for Poser.... I am searching for the same thing. If/when I find any.... I will be sure to let you know.

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Great. Any help is good help. I'll stay on the search myself.

I think that there is a fur coat that comes with Poser 5 for Judy. I'm not on my CG machine right now so I can't be sure but I think there is one. 8) Catlin

Burrrr! It was 85F down here today. How can you surf in that stuff?! LOL. That pic does bring back some fun childhood memories when we lived up near Lake of the Woods Minn. Thats a really nice pic so far! I'm looking forward to seeing how you'll put the snow on the trees. I've never been able to get that to look right. Watch out for that yellow snow!

Swade, on second look, yeah, mloates has a real point about the trees all being upright perfect and I agree with him about slanting a few. Maybe even a fallen tree would nice somewhere in the background. LOL...yellow snow, we'll blame it on the dog unless the yellow turns out to be someone's name!

*...yellow snow, we'll blame it on the dog unless the yellow turns out to be someone's name! * and that all depends on whose handwriting it is......!

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Bryster: That reminds me of a joke too dirty to tell here, but it sounds like you've already heard it. :^)

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy

TJohn: Yup......LOL

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LMAO not even gonna comment on yellow snow and "hand"writing... hehehehe kewl pic Wade! Only thing i see is a noticible line between what looks like the 3d part, and maybe a picture in the background.... there's like this point in the view where it goes from crystal clear, to very light and fuzzy... perhaps something in between those two sections, kinda mid-fuzzy? ooo and maybe some small snow mounds at the base of the trees, like it has drifted a lil as the night winds blew?