As my small gallery should indicate, I've always liked doing little portraits of Poser figures in fairly mundane ("realistic") settings as a change from all of the chainmail bikinis, armor that works only if the enemy strikes only at erogenous zones and faaeries with plasma cannon that seem so popular. I decided to do add a bit more to my annual-ish office portrait this year. Most of it's still not been adding in this WIP - poor Drew here has been condemned to the cubicle after hours (at least hers doesn't have rats like my last one did) yet works away at her lamptop in the dim office twilight after the cleaners have turned out most of the lights. It's meant to look rather drab and dim and washed-out. Drew's a pale character, and the lighting, even though it's done with a repurposed HDRI preset (that started life as part of Saintfox's "Human Nature" set), helps to give the impression that she's illuminated by her laptop's screen while at the same time suggesting that the rest of the lighting is coming from some neon strip several cube's away. What's still missing is the stuff that personalizes a cube - desk clutter, memos pinned to the dividing walls, maybe a bleak motivational poster (yes, Demotivators have come to mind, but something tells me Drew's office has banned those). The trick there will be to add the extra details to make the image more realistic without adding to the actual interest of it - the focus is on Drew, so the personalization should be either very bland (GANTT charts and workplace regulations), sadly bland (ancient faded Dilbert) or mundane and bland (motivational calendar). I chose Lady Deuce's "Drew" as the character because I wanted somebody that was pale and interesting (plenty of those around at this time of year) but didn't actually look dead (this narrows the field considerably). The basic outfit, the desk and the pose are from Billy-T's recent "Office Set". The provided poses are *very* useful, particularly when it comes to getting the skirt right. However, Billy's set came with pretty much default Japanese "OL Suit" color options, so I used OOT's "Desk Affairs" to provide some color to the clothing. It also provides about the only color in the image - this is intentional. The laptop will probably be retextured into something more corporate, or something with a piece of fruit on it for the final image, which'll leave Drew's clothing as the sole source of strong color. The cube walls are actually the corner from IBO's "Top Model Kit 2", with the floor recolored. Hair is OOT/Bice's "Florence" hair used OOTB with a nondescript brown. Any fancy style it might have had has long since surrendered to the work day. I think the final change I made was to replace the eye color (Drew has strong, vivid eye colors) with something from Actual Eyez V4/M4 (available via RuntimeDNA). Then, before I decided whether or not to put the additional work into busy-ing up the cube a little, I felt a full render was necessary. Absolutely everything is turned up full - note that polygon smoothing has to be disabled for the desk and laptop otherwise they inflate - and I decided to give up my computer for a few extra hours and enable Depth of Field. This is actually more visible than I expected - Drew's face is the focus, and you can't really see any more distant objects (since there aren't any) but the nearer objects are nice'n'fuzzy. This is actually desirable - illegible fuzzy cube and desk decoration will help prevent it from distracting the eye from the focus, meaning I can actually use some of the sadder office decorations ("You don't have to be mad to work here - on-job training is provided", intra-office memos) without them pulling the attention. All rendered in P7 Pro in about seven or eight hours - the 'ole quad G5 is beginning to show its age, I think. Anyway, comments welcome.