Please zoom in... Another WIP that you may enjoy watching. Most of you know me as a Vue artist, Modo modeler. My shills with Poser are limited so I wanted to try adding what little I know at this point into my work flow to create a portrait of a woman at an opened leaded window of a Flemish studio. This exercise started with me searching for hair that I actually liked.. finding something for Victoria 2, it was a bit old but after changing the hair color I applied it to the new Vanilla V4 model. I have to say that I am disappointed with what is available for those doing historical illustrations.... but then I understand the market considerations for doing winged amazon women with cleavage to get lost in... and hair to match. Anyway... Using a backplate with one of my interior studio renders, I created a leaded window pattern from one of my model as a lighting mask to create the shadows on her body. Seeing the interior now in the background, I'm able to adjust the lighting and color to match it. I then save the figure as a png and layer the two elements in Photoshop to make further adjustments in color contrast and added a lens blur to the background. This image is now imported into Vue as alpha plane. I now go back to Modo and model just the window elements I need for this scene and import it as an obj into Vue. I now position the window object in front, create mats and apply them for each mesh component... and create a second alpha plane of one of my exterior period renders and position it behind the camera to reflect into the windows. Now I'm at Stage one, can see what color, contrast adjustments I want to make as I work up a new glass material that will have bubbles in it and see what small details need to be added to the window structure.. to include taking it into ZBrush and making the leading more hand made. Wanting a low light, almost rainy feel, I have used an HDRI image for the atmosphere. Little things will make this, such as splits in the wood, the joints, hardware, I would like to add rain drops running down the glass.. all things to look into. If you think back at "The Race" wips images you will remember how much it changed to the final... I wonder where this will take me.... Cheers Don