Much in keeping with the the image, I typed a long description, and IE ate it... :) This started out life as a yet another doodle, and became my first real "project" Sadly this is all I have, as the day after this was rendered Windows Me ate my laptop... I was able to salvage the PZ3, but depending on how it feels it either crashes poser, or it "grey screens" and nothing shows/renders. It started out as an experiment trying to make it look like she was really holding the gun, (rather than simply having a gun in her hand) and sort of developed from there. The "she" in question being the P4femadvanced by Mr X (available as "Black Canary" from 3d-cc.com) who makes a great compainion/replacement for Posette, stuffed as she is with morphs, especially if you want/like a slightly "harder" look. Once I had the gun in place I realised she needed a holster, and the only one I had was Lara's rig, (also from 3d-cc I think) but when fitted the buckle tended to dominate so I loaded the loin cloth while looking for a rope/leather belt (without a buckle :) It was while I was tweaking the straps to fit that I discovered my camera angle. Which was both good and bad, because once I dialed out I discovered a truly great pair of legs :) but also a big hole in my composition. At which point. Enter "stage right" the motobike.... You would not belive how much time I spent trying to get a "good bump" out of the saddle :P One thing lead to another and I spent ages trying to get a good "fine grain" leather on the gloves, (mostly lost in this "quick" render) then I moved onto the holster. It was while using the loin cloth as a "broad canvas" on which to test the bump that I decided to use it in full (and not the camo's I'd been thinking of untill that point) not only did it give the image a "hard" look, but I get to show off her legs too! (Bonus! :) I toyed with the idea of dropping the camera a bit, to show the boots, but it didn't look right, so I needed to find a top, and none of them really "spoke" to me until I found Nerd's SMC top, (I think) then the search was on for a decent texture, but none i could find would fit (or look right) until I came across the lace from what I think is Jim Burton's SMV Lingerie set, I tried black, but it didn't really work, so red it was :) The "frilly" underwear is also SMV's, but I used it more because the idea of going "tooled up" in a G-string made me laugh than anything else... :) I threw a few textures on her, but decided on Staale's text, (I think) more because of the freckle than other aesthetic :) At this point I wanted to see how it looked with "everything on" textures, bumps, the works. But it looked "limp" without a background, then by happy chance I came across the background from Tim Laubach's "Ruth" (also at 3d-cc :) Long a favoured "cutie" but surplus to requirements at the mo' :) The background was too small "out of the box" so I scaled and smoothed it, then added it in, and 5-10 mins later, this popped out. I intended it as a simple rough cut. I had loads of renders from multiple angles but this was my first complete image. One day later, my laptop was toast, "woe is me", etc. I know the hip's "broken" but I wanted a really radical curve to the hip, and I was planning to fix it later, I also wanted a better reflection map on the bike's crome parts, decent lighting, shadows, etc. But... However, what I would be interested in is how you think it could be improved, (not that I can...) but it'd be interesting to speculate on what "might have been" :0) The image seems to have gone "walkabout" So i uploaded it again, (13/04/2003)