Hi. Wow, it's been a while. Sorry for not posting, it's been that kind of couple of months. Here's a Dragon by way of apology :) This started out as a materials test for a personal piece which I may or may not end up finishing. I liked the environment and this funky camera angle so much that I stuck with it. DAZ Studio 3 render. This is Stonemason's "Winter Kingdom" set with the included volume camera. I have to tell you I'm in love with that camera and I'm using it on almost all my DAZ Studio work. Even some inside shots benefit from a little haze. All it does is give some color over the Z distance from camera, but it does it neatly, quickly and in camera. It does not do volumetric shadows, but I can live with that for now. This completely replaces Moodmaster for me. I redid the lighting using a single distant light with raytraced shadows for sunlight and a uberSoft environment light for the sky and bounce. The dragon is DAZ's Mil Dragon 2 with Swidhelm's dynamic cloth wings. I love these wings. I cannot use the old default wings with this figure anymore. Using them with custom poses in DAZ Studio is a bit of a pest, but the results speak for themselves. Here is how to do it. You'll need a copy of Poser with a cloth room. Poser 5 or better should do fine. -- Pose the dragon in Studio. Use the default wings to rough out the wing position, or apply a pre-done pose. -- Load Swidhelm's wings and conform to your dragon. Be sure to check the notes that come with the product as there are important little gotchas spelled out in the pdf. -- Pose the Swidhelm wing elements using the default wings as a guide. Then turn off the visibility of the default wing elements. Snicker confidently about how frakking cool this is going to look compared to the default wings. -- Use the free 'export to pz2' utility from DAZ to export poses for the Mil Dragon and the Wing set to your Poser runtime in pz2 format. -- Switch to Poser and load the dragon and wings as instructed in the Documentation pdf that comes with the wings. When you get to the part of posing the dragon and wings at frame 30 so you can run the cloth simulation; apply the poses you saved from Studio. -- Run the cloth simulation as outlined in the documentation. It's really easy. -- After you run the simulation export the wing membrane as an .obj file. Import into studio using the 'poser' scaling option. It should load to exactly the right place. Parent it to the Dragon. -- If you change the pose of the dragon or the wing elements you'll probably have to re-run that process, but if you have a Poser scene saved with the dragon and the initial pose, it goes pretty quickly. -- This is, of course, useless for animation. Stills only. Textures are the blue Mil Dragon 1 set. We have a touch of displacement and the usual bump maps etc. I also used reflection @ 100% and some refraction @ an IOR of 1.8 to gloss things up. Shaders were all DAZ Studio default except the wing membranes which use the uberSurface shader so I could add some translucence. In Photoshop, I did the usual levels, contrast and vibrancy adjustments. The Dragon's eye was over-painted in post to look more python-esque because I hated what I ended up with in the render. I added the blowing snow (Google Snow and Photoshop, lots and lots of tutorials) and some sun glare to the left side of the image. I copied the titles from my earlier Red Dragon piece and changed the verbiage and colors to suite. Yea, I can be lazy. Many thanks for stopping by. Please feel free to post questions in the comments and I'll try to answer there or if you'd like to site mail me here that is fine too. As always, any comments or constructive critique you'd like to leave would be most welcome.