Here's a progress rendering in Bryce for mbonchers kitty, Buster!  Still ways to go for more of the hair to show up, but I think I'm getting the coloring base pretty close to a flame point.

Texture is for the Poser's stock Cat model.
I'm doing most of the texturing (color underpainting)  in Z-brush with some touchups in Photoshop. Then I bring it back to poser and reattach the textures.
Then I open up Bryce 6, hit the DAZ Studio Button, import my saved poser file, and let Daz Studio translate it all into Bryce. That way all the textures come across right where they belong, mapped correctly.  BIG time saver.  I do some minor tweaks in bryce materials, like add bump mapping for the hair and tweak diffusion and other settings a little as needed.

Next painting pass, I'm hoping to add more hair/fur definition.

Hi, my namez: "NO, Bad Kitteh, NO!"  Whaz yurs?
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