A while back, Roxy (brewgirlca) came up with a great challenge. The idea was to go back to an early work in your gallery, and recreate it as you would do it today. What a great idea! You can see Roxy's challenge here. With that in mind, I went back to the first few images I posted here, and selected my fourth upload, entitled "Phaedra Moonshadow." The original can be seen here. The original started out as a pencil drawing, and was scanned into Photoshop where it was painted with my Wacom. Although at the time, I thought it wasn't half bad, I much prefer the new version! The new version is a combination of several parts. Phaedra, her outfit, the closest trees, the foreground, some of the grass, the lanterns and lantern staffs, and of course the lighting were all done in Poser 8. The background is a combination of two Bryce renders. The fog layers were added in Photoshop, as was the moon, stars,and some of the foliage. For her lanterns, I wanted to use the original lantern staff. I took that layer from the original Photoshop file, made a JPG out of it, and applied it to a symmetrical lattice in Bryce to create a 3D model of the staff. I exported it as an .OBJ file, and imported it to Poser. I used a simple shader for the color and surface, then created a prop from it. I used the lanterns from DM's Elven Rock package, and placed point lights inside them. Phaedra's sparkly "skirt" is a Photoshop brush - can't remember where I got it, but I'll add credit if I find it. I want to dedicate this to four wonderful friends and artists. First of all, Roxy for coming up with this great idea. And also to three great friends who have been there offering their encouragement and support from the beginning. At the time of this posting, the original image has 3 comments from these friends. Thank you, Rosey, Barry, and Adrie! I may do another re-do of this image - but I'll have to start from scratch again. When I tried to save the latest Poser file, Poser did what it's best at - crashed. It completely scrambled the Pz3 file, and it's now completely unuseable. Hope everyone has a safe and happy 4th of July, and for those of my friends around the world, hope you also have a wonderful day! Although I don't always get by to say thanks personally, I really do appreciate your comments, faves, support, and especially your friendship! WOO-HOO!!!! I just found out my last post, Girls From TNA, Chapter 2, Page 7 was one of three images selected for the Mixed Medium Gallery Star Chart # 26! My girls are so proud! :-D (me too!) :0D