I came across a disk that I thought I had lost. I had a bunch of WIPs on it that I never finished due to computer spring cleaning.

I thought if might be fun to post some of our OLD UNFINISHED WIPs. It might give us a needed laugh or it might even give some that are having an artistic block some ideas.

Oh and give a reason why you never finished it,

So I'll start with this one. Simple answer to not finishing it was, I put it on a disk and missplaced it. I started this one in april 2005 but that is the modified date so it may be much older.

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Now see this secret picture of my 3D VR self, which I never published:  It is WIP, and should stay that way !  Grrrrr....

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Mine are too naughty to post here.

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Laughs with Infinity10. I won't do one of myself. No need to scare the children off.

Looks like everybody but a couple of us finish every WIP or are to chicken to post or as Sealtm2, to naughty. Though don't let nudity stop you from posting as long as it is within the TOS.

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Heh, same here. Most of mine involve penetration, flagellation, strangulation, and many other four syllable words much worse than the four-letter ones.

I wouldn't post one of myself, but I've been trying unsuccessfully to morph a model to look like this:

I haven't even gotten the face part right yet, but this already gives me nightmares of the hair room.

I was building this little beauty back in 2001 when a computer crash demolished everything. I lost 3 WIPs and lost heart for a few years. Fortunately, I was able to get some of it off my archive CDs. Not as far as I was, but still better than starting from scratch. I was building this fantasy warship in trueSpace and poserizing it as I went. I had gotten it to the point where the guns actually could fire using morph targets. I have restored the tS version, and found I still had the Poser version on one of my CDs, so I can finish it once I finish my current project. :)

My unfinished WIPs tend to eb that way because rendering them causes Poser to brain fart and stall and I just end up deleting them instead of keeping them.  No terrible finsihed pieces that have never seen the light of day I ahve on DVD by the shedload..........lol

 

 

ooo, goody.  it'll feel so much better to get these out.... pardon, but these have been bugging me a long time.  if anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.

ok, this first.  i wanted this as a journey's end pic, with the hero being welcomed by the girl.  i stopped at the girl because i could never get past the clothes.  as you can see in the top one (the first attempt) the clothes look inflated.  i wanted dynamic, but to get her sitting on the chaise, she's got to intersect with it.  and the clothes should fall on the chaise.  basically, i ended up giving up without a solution. the second adds real skin shader, gets her chest a bit more realistic, and changes angle, but still doesn't address the clothes at all (obviously). 

so if anyone has suggestions on clothes- good way to drape, conforming clothes that do lying down well, painted clothing tutorial, or even just, "she's more welcoming naked", i'd appreciate it. 

the other big problem is background.  i'm just not sure what should lie beyond the pavillion.  any suggestions?  or is this even worth pursuing?

October 2003... "The Player". This is the only one I've got left - all other WIPs I've either finished, or deleted altogether.

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"you are terrifying
and strange and beautiful
something not everyone knows how to love." - Warsan Shire

cute!  i like the mood of that pic.  what more did you want to do to it?

Well, the materials needed work - specifically, the glasses and bottle. The hair needed something, too.

I guess I really stopped working on it because it reminded me of sad times... He may have been a player, but I still missed him.

Actually, looking back now, I am quite impressed with how I got Mike 2 to look so different to his normal square-jawed shape!

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"you are terrifying
and strange and beautiful
something not everyone knows how to love." - Warsan Shire

Cool some brave souls.

DokEnkephalin. Have you tried the P4 hair that comes included in all versions of poser. Using the grouping tool and spawning props, you could make something close to that style.

Greywolf Starkiller. Have had that happen to me too. I may finish the one I posted if I can find all the runtimes that all the pieces are in. I also have better modeling skills to make it work better.

 cobaltdream. Are the pants inflated before or after render. If after then turn smoothing off of the clothes. If not, 1. try raising the figure into the air and run the clothroom sim with only the female figure as collision. 2. do the same as 1 but include collision to the chaise as well and drop the female figure down say at frame 15/20 using the +key frame to start the lowering of the figure to 40 frams, but keep the figure just above the chaise so there is room between the chaise and figure for the cloth to do it's thing. the more frames you use the better the look. 3. do the same as 1 and if you have P7 use the morph brush to make the chaise side of the clothes to look like they are drapped on the chaise. Just some suggestions off the top of my head.

As for the back ground, maybe a stone rail at the edge of the floor. That would give it a balcony look and then you could use a sky image. Match the incoming light color with the sky.

karen1573. Has a great mood to it. Reminds me of someone I used to know a long time ago. With all the new materials and lights that poser has, it wouldn't be hard to redo things.

Well, I hope others will post to this thread. Gives us a little look behind the scenes kind of thingy.

beryld - nope, it's not smoothing.  it's the inflated look every single pair of conforming pants i've used has.  and the thing is if the figure doesn't actually intersect the chaise, it looks like she's floating.  _lots_ of her butt is actually in the chaise.  and as much as i'd still work on the pose, i worked it pretty hard and nothing that didn't intersect the chaise made her as if she was actually supported by it.

hmmm.  so you think just sky would do?  i was thinking of it as placed on the ground, but sort of unspecifically on high works. 

i think i'll play with painting some clothes on her.  i don't have p7, or the morph brush would definitely be my choice.

this one was heavy metal inspired, and really just bombed.  i think it proves i probably shouldn't do pure cheesecake.  i've tried postworking it a few times (as can be seen on the right), and it's just never been any good.  the background shows up great, and i like the luminescent quality to the skin, but that's about it.   if anybody thinks they could do more with it, they can have the original (which is 2400 x 2400).

Yeah there are draw backs to the clothroom but it works over all. my point about floating the figure just above the chaise is to give the clothroom some room to work. It does not like intersecting polies, gets down right mean about them. Magnets could do the rest. An old trick I learned in 2001/2002 is to add a magnet to the chaise but parent it to the figure. so when you set her down the magnet deforms the chaise and it looks natural.

No Matter what others will have you believe, Magnets are your friends. They work well as afixer for the clothroom too.

I'm not very good whith cheesecake images myself, though I do try sometimes. I think the one that are good use more PS than anything else.

right, i've made a few different conforming outfits dynamic.  didn't work so well with the clothes in the first image, but....  the thing is that i really want the clothes to collide with the chaise.  as to the magnets.... well, that would be great if her butt was the right shape.  but bent like that, it bubbles out badly. and besides, i hate the floating look so much,  i'm not sure magnets would help.  even in areas that were just close, i had problems with dynamics.   i might try magnets, though.  but i'm leaning toward painted clothes, if i return to it at all.  i'd like to learn to paint them, and this is kind of a  perfect situation.  i have an idea of the outfit design and how i'd like them to look.

that said, i haven't even touched on the hero.   and i'm not sure i like the roles. 

i don't mind postwork. in fact i find it highly enjoyable.   i just couldn't seem to get anywhere with the postwork on that pinup.  just nowhere.  i give up on it.

ummmmmm what is WIP?????

Everything I've ever posted. I look at it a week later and sure enough, there's more to be done.

WIP = Work in Progress

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I assume your talking mostly about renders, my WIPs are all mesh, things I've started but haven't gotten around to finishing yet.

This is my sportscar, I haven't done anything on it in about a year....

My Starfighter (a Lockheed F-104).  About two years on this one.

My Horse (over two tears on this one, too)

My War of 1812 Schooner  I gotta finish this....

A little something for Ingenue Vickie.  I forgot all about this set until I liiked through my renders.

The ever-popular Spitfire Mk I

no, not the 1812 scooner!!!
lol!

Comitted to excellence through art.

The underside of the Spit.  This one is fairly recent, I worked on it a recently as a month ago.

When I get modeler block, typically about halfway through a project I tend to start something new.  It is a  I tend to start something new.  It is  LOT more fun starting stuff than it is finishing it!

My next set at DAZ has been under construction for about two years though, so I do finish some of the old ones.  ;-)

I did this, didn't like the way it turned out, and got bored with the theme before I redid it.

the girl on the couch is my favourite so far.

I found this in my archive of unfinished projects. I last worked on it in September 2003. it was going to be the first of a set, then real life kind of got in the way......

wow!  that looks incredibly detailed.   very interesting.

all my WIP's are models also,they get started and then just crowd up my harddrive forever...lol
love modeling,just hate doing the rest I guess.

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Here's a hell cow I started ages ago for a Diablo II themed picture. The intent was to have a whole horde of them. I never did resolve how a cow how might wield a polearm without opposing thumbs.

lets see... could'nt get the camera angle right to show the background the way I wanted..

far as this ever got...

I will finish this one day. I need to go back and start over..

and this I think will take the rest of my life to get right... the Nexus....

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Is this your interpretation of a "Dune" Ornothopter?  If so, this is FAR more in keeping with the descriptions Frank Herbert wrote than the two film adaptations (David Lynch's theatrical and the ScFi Channel mini-series).

Sincerely,

Bill

Tempt the Hand of Fate and it'll give you the "finger"!

actually lol, it's my own Steampunk version 'the Blowfly' meant as a shuttle / fighter for the Nexus... never made the Dune connection lol

If we're talking about models, this is one I really should have finished but never quite recovered the necessary feelings after laying it aside....

Nelson's Dream Village Motel, a Route 66 landmark.  The cottages look
OK in this render, but they're badly built (messy vertices all over the place)
and need to be redone for proper use.

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