I enjoy creating artwork in Poser, Photoshop CC, Vue, and DAZ Studio. I also have a passion for photography, and have been actively shooting for many years. I've been using Poser since Version 8, and am also learning my way around DAZ Studio. I've been using Adobe Photoshop since version 4. I also use Vue 10. I frequently use my photos as backgrounds, and composite my 3D figures into them.
I have been creating my web comic / graphic novel "The Girls From T.N.A." since fall of 2009, and have been a member of Renderosity since August 2009. I've made a lot of wonderful friends here, and have been inspired every time I visit!
I will soon have a more complete biography, as I am updating everything. In the meantime, have a look around my gallery!
Thanks!
Rod
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Comments (34)
mrestey
Yeah ... I'm not impressed either Rod. Every time you get used to things they gotta F with it. TG you uploaded. I was unable to look at uploads yesterday because of the latest Rendo travesty that was taking place, so I was doing that now and I saw Faemike's upload mentioning an explosion in KC! I said to Holly, "I hope Rod is OK. I haven't heard back from him". Then BAM! I saw this upload from you and was instantly relieved.
Ravyns
My feelings exactly!!!!
FaeMoon
This just gets horribler and horribler. I can't believe how unprofessional this looks, and all the colors hurt the eyes. I got to agree with Andy.
RodS Online Now!
@ Mike - Yeah that blast was a long way from me... It was a popular restaurant on The Plaza. One fatality, 16 injuries. Now we have 10-14 inches of snow, and more coming... And now, Rendo does this.... I feel ill... :-D
Image-Edit
Hey on the positive they are now allowing full nudity on the thumb nails !! your skellywag in the pic is bollocko naked in the thumb lol ;p Yer, loads of issues to sort but that's the same with all change, maybe asking the users for ideas would of been a better idea but then that's giving us choice which is a whole other trauma ;)
eekdog
my thoughts are if it works why fix it! 7-8 inches of snow last night, not sure how much more is on the way. this pubic comment box sucks and do not enjoy the new interface. how much did they bump it up too? your image fits most of our thoughts about the new look. sorry staff, but that's the way it is.
Savage_dragon
Sigh... I hope its just til they get it right. This 'update' sucks even worse than the last one. :(
SidheRoseGraphics
Doggy poo..... What is with the skinny little comment and text posting boxes??!!! It looks as if they were trying to open up the page more and have less clutter, but why the skinny little boxes in that case? And it's too freaking bright!!! I agree with Andy! Glad you're okay, Rod...other than the severe case of nausea ;)
magnus073
I can't stand the new website. It makes it a total nightmare for me to check in on the site using my I-phone now. Anyone ever heard of leaving well enough alone.
bazza
Excellent Rod...love the pic (100+++) and am in agreement in fact I have to agree with everyone here this is horrible. The text box is way to small now when they have all the big slab of blue right next to it and the rating thing is way huger than it needs to be.. I guess they have to have a fiddle with everything all the time, you just get use to it one way then bam you have to start finding things again.. Its a bit like some stores I use to visit you just get use to where everything is and some brain surgeon has to change it so you have to relearn where everything is.. Guess it makes people look and not just rush in and out passing all the other product they are trying to sell.. Anyway I will see whether things get better than this and decide if I stay or leave and go to Deviant art where I post also as do many that have left rendo already..
Trouble
I could not agree more! The colors are wretched. These colors hurt my eyes and in some cases I can't figure out what is being written. Kinda like Microsoft....release to the public for comments and bug reports and then fix on the fly. Has nobody every heard of QC BEFORE you put your changes live??
vyktohria
LMAO!! Can't....stop...laughing...!!!!
vitachick
It worked so why mess with it?? Excellant render. We all feel the same..
Faemike55
I agree with Andy: here's my letter and response to Admin regarding the changes: we had difficulty accessing the site pages for this design FAILURE? give me a bloody break. this change is totally unnecessary IMO especially when this changeover disrupted access and got your members very upset Response: The changes made to the site are too improve the overall efficiency and navigation as well as give more options to customer in the Marketplace. The site color scheme will be having some adjustments as well. The techs are still working on some issues as these types of changes do take time to work everything out. The changes were based on customer/member feedback within our annual surveys and while we understand that once everything is complete there will still be some people that won't like all the changes but also know that the majority will be happy with them once we work through some issues and color tweaks. I'm not impressed at all
Diemamker
You know...I feel the same as Andy, Bleaaah!!!... from the looks of things Rendo seem to be catching the DAZ bug... if it an't broke, fix it anyways! and look how screwed up they are now! Why is it if something is working great, some "Bleep" person always comes and screws thing up... and then says it's a improvement! it would be better if they just left things as they were and just made small changes... then they give mike( Faemike55 ) the old, we're doing the changes to in prove the site, so shut-up and like it... well not in those exact words, but basicly that! Lets see what happens in the next few days..
adorety
Yes! Too Bright! Among other things.
bmac62
Ha! Love your response to the whole affair. The best thing about this site is the community of people who populate it day by day. The aesethetics should bother me but for some reason I've reached the point of simply saying, c'est la vie:)
misty7j3
I have no idea what everyone is talking about here.....I just "popped in" to comment on this image...."lol" Grrreat image....I LUV skeletons!!
mgtcs
Amazing image friend, fine sense of humor. This is really a strange modification, the boxes are smaller and the brightness is really hard! To the powers that be: (1) PLZ do not leave these boxes tall and skinny; (2) Fix the color scheme ASAP; (3) Do not fix what is not broken. Thx.
Froggy
Yeah man, my sentiments EXACTLY!!! You (and the many folks who have commented this far) hit the nail on the head with the "God forbid they give us an extra few k for uploads too" More idle time wasting buggering up something that was vaguely OK. Now if only they would give us something useful like extra upload sizes ......
renecyberdoc
well surprisingly this old dinosaur here does not feels like ranting (yet-lol). maybe its more psychological with me as we have our eyes as theme this week. in the next few days i will get my first time ever glasses. i had my eyes checked and i was told the eyes are all ok pression etc,but i need glasseeez. the girl in the opticians place ( she had a nice cleavage ), convinced me not to buy cheap crap. so i went for non-reflective progressive glasses with also a stylish gucci--spakki-hugo-kevin whatever mount. i might look less crappy than in my schooldays (lol)ya know it might give me an "intellectish"look the whole crap will cost me near to 700 dollars lol. the thing is i do have to adapt to the glasses and above all to this progressive lens crap,and i thought i can adapt at the same time to the new design.for the moment it is not bothering me. hey when you drag the arrow in the right lower corner you can make the commenting box larger. and then we have ute who has to stay away from the pc and get her eyes checked as well. i had glasses in school when i was 12 but i looked crappy with them i broke 2 sets and lost a couple by purpose until my father realised it was cheaper to leave me alone never had probs with the eyes until recently)
brewgirlca
The response to Mike is a carbon copy of the bullshit response they sent out to me when I complained about the previous round of improvements. "you are just a one off whiner, most people love what we do (please ignore that we have dropped from 7000 active member to less that 3000, those 4000 where just a small minority of complainers. The 3000 we have left are solidly with our stupid fix it if it is not broken corporate identity - and we have to keep our IT guys employed doing useless tasks or they too would leave us.. Those who left were probably pagan anarchists who do not fit into our submissive Christian values corporate mantra anyways.) So F you faemike and gang. I have a long chapter of Ishtar just done but cannot face submitting the 2.5 pages of dialog in this tiny pecker box format. I may quit rather than continue.
barryjeffer
Well, I think everyone has stated the obvious... no one seems to like the changes, but nothing will be done to try to accommodate the members of the site. I'd hate to see anymore friends leave here... Taking suggestions would be a good step for the masters of the site to consider.
junge1
I have no idea what this is about but it is a cool image!
adrie
I dont like it also Rod, but i think and hope that it's only temporay. But i love and like your cool image Rod, awesome work.
Rhanagaz
First I thought something was wrong with my computer because DAZ' site also look weird!..I had big troubles to be allowed to find the 3D stuff I looked for..But I realized both companies almost simultanesly got the "great" idea to "improve"..So suddenly it is much more difficult to FIND and BUY something! Brilliant!?..Hopefully it is just start problems - and not a 9-year junior web-designers work.. I feel sad for the disappearing artists but I stay here for you girls and guys! The positive - the humorists get something to work with. Seing Rods brilliant creation in the "right colors" is just wonderful. And maybe I got an idea... ;o)
cricke49
my freakin' thoughts exactly Rod, while they are at it they could change some Moderators too, along with upping the image size! the font color along with this small box just ain't happening! awesome image render and pov my friend we got 17" out here in the sticks!:)*5
Knechtruprecht
Until now, Rosity looked like an artist's community. Now it just looks as what it is - a shop.
drifterlee
The Daz site is horrible. Now I am afraid Rendo is going the same way. Ugh!
GrandmaT
I just LOVE improvements!?!?!?!