Hello good people,

A bit of a story here. Recently I visited Renderosity after a long time of being absent. There was the pandemic, during which my trusty PC gave the ghost after 9 years of faithful service. I decided to pause my computer activities for a while and watch YouTube instead. About six months ago I got myself a new spicy laptop and continued where I stopped. Wow SSDs really make a difference! When I checked my profile I was amazed when I saw the date I joined this site: January 4th 2000! I can remember using Poser (version 3 I believe it was) and Bryce (what happened to this software?). I was thrilled by the possibilities this combo offered and spent many hours using it, mostly waiting for renders to finish. At a certain point I had enough. The results weren't what I wanted to be and stopped buying the next version of Poser. I switched to DAZ Studio, but I spent way too much money on it. After I got my new laptop I found out that my hard drive with decades of Poser goodies was broken. Trauma; always make more than one backup, kids! The DAZ stuff was on an other drive, thank goodness. So now I'm getting to know DAZ Studio again, this in combination with Blender. Excellent! Being a veteran computer graphics enthusiast (since Vue3D on the ZX Spectrum) it is great to see this site is still going strong after more than a quarter of a century. I'll be dropping by every now and then to see the great art on display.

Have a great 2026!

brite