January 2013
Been at this site five years now and have seen a lot of growth - both artistically and spiritually thanks to the many good friends I have met here. I work with Poserpro2012, photoshop CS6, PSPX2, Perfect Effects 3 and Photomatrix 4. I love working in the material room and continue to find lots of growth there. I also do a lot of postwork fixing, special affects, and framing, all for which photoshop is indispensible. I love doing postwork; no image is anywhere near complete without it.
In the last year or so I've added quite a bit of photography to my gallery. I started with a Nikon Coolpix 9100 point and shoot. It gives amazing quality and its small size makes it easy to pack around and just grab some shots as they come into my vision. I still use it for sneaky people shots but now I use a Nikon D5100 DSLR for my more serious keeper work. Had I known how all consuming my passion for photography would become I should have jumped to a D600 low end pro camera.In my gallery you will see mostly storylines based upon my own visions and versions of Mesopotamian Mythology, sprinkled with some Celtic works and an occasional pinup or two and quite a few special requests. I have long been a writer, though a terrible speller, and so most of my images come with a storyline or poem. No image seems complete to me without words to accompany them.In high school I trained in both the Sciences and Fine Arts but when I went to university I had to choose one or the other and so I went with the life sciences. Art dropped out of my life for a long time... though I never gave up my interest in archeology and mythology. I wound up with a graduate degree in the life sciences with majors in physical geography, ecology and evolutionary biology. My love of nature and a deep naturalistic spirituality eventually led me to the wikkan tradition.Some five and a half years ago I discovered poser after coming across some great 3-d art on the web and after some six months of stumble bum practice I joined this site.Doing this type of art has released many visions and stories that were locked up inside my soul for many ages. It has allowed me to explore the life and times of my primal spiritual ancestor, a girl also named Roxanne, who lived in the Sumerian regions. She whispers the stories of these classic legends in my mind and I create the images to go with them.My stories are mostly written as dialogue and they tend to be rather long. So grab a coffee, a tea or better yet a beer, kick back, relax and stay a while.I hope you enjoy your stay here.Hugs and blessed beRoxy
Comments (17)
KatesFriend
I love her expression. There's a sense that she's found what she has been looking for and now she's going to take it. Apt for Valentine's Day wouldn't you think?
bebopdlx
Nice work and light.
plasmid
This is a nice quickie. I have yet to play with the lighting in Daz Studio like you. I guess I need to buckle down cuz this looks great. Looks like you are really making headway.
LivingPixels
An excellent piece Roxy very cool!!!
mtdana
A very fun portrait!!! Nice colors and I like the look of the hair and its pose - and the bat is cool!!!
MineFujiko
Superb render, Roxy-san!
giulband
Beautiful portrait with a beautiful expression and pose !!!!!!! The use of light and its color give something of fascinating to this image
allnaydi
It certainly turned out great. Beautiful character and render.
magnus073
Great job in bringing this ultra cool character to life, Roxy.
eekdog
some massively cool steampunk dear, Roxy. killer lighting and expression. love your talents and help you have mentioned about my last image i indicated some things about that in my recent.
buffalosoldier
great render
Faemike55
Her expression gives me two thoughts - She is very happy about something or she is going slowly mad (insane) over something excellent work
rhol_figament
Always enjoy the wind, well maybe not a hurricane... ;) Ten to twelve hour render times on a good pc or Mac seem to be normal for Reality 4, depending on what you want in the final image. Not for all the instant gratification generation, but excellent results if you have patience, something the world seems to be in short supply of these days... ;) A Happy Valentines to you B-Girl!
3dpoetry
Awesome work
rbowen
Excellent work!
adorety
Nice. That's a different kind of Bat Girl! Lover her expression/demeanor. Nice render, but 10 hours does seem excessive for a Firefly render. This looks more Firefly than Reality, right? IDL can take a long time and details of a mesh with or without SSS can seem to really affect render time. As an example I used Snarly Gribble's EZ-Skin to add SSS to a character. I set the SSS quality to 90% and this made the render take hours. I redid it at 80% and the render took only an hour and a half and the SSS did not really suffer for the 10% less in quality. If you are adding SSS with a Poser node than the slider that blends the node with original texture map can affect things too. I don't know if that's what's going on here. The hair looks pretty detailed and that could affect the render time as well.
RodS
This is really excellent, Roxy! The IDL really looks good, and there's a ton of detail here - super render! I don't think I've ever had a Poser render take 10 hours (Vue, yes, Poser no) - like Art, I'm not really sure what's taking it so long other than the detailed hair. Even at that. it's well worth the time involved! You're really making Alondra look super hot!