Hi everyone! Well, since my muse has been behaving lately I decided to participate in the Pinup Contest, thought it would be fun and keep me motivated. Since it's not really my genre I decided to browse through vintage pinups on the web, pick a few I really liked and then recreate them in Poser. I posted the original image for reference. For this first render (and for anyone who is curious) I decided to add a few details to show how I put it together and mostly to show how much difference adding a simple skin texture and new lights can make sometimes. Step 1: First thing I needed to do was see if I could get the dress to drape over the shutter chord, it was definitely the most challenging part for me, and actually turned out to be a lot easier than I thought. A poor choice I made was to let the dress go a little lower because at first I thought showing the panties would cause issues for the contest. I then realized that wasn't the case but had already done too much work in the cloth room and didn't want to risk going down a rabbit hole so decided to leave it. I also needed a brass birdie, which also turned out to be easier than I thought thanks to an Adam Thwaite's freebie. I "flattened" one of his birds, added the stick and then applied the brass texture. Once that was done I worked on la femme's facial expression, wasn't 100% satisfied but decided to move on anyway. Step 2: At this point it was time to find a character that would work. I tried a few skin textures and character morphs and then chose Aphrodite Ohki's Debora skin which was the one that seemed to suit the image most. As for the facial morphs, I was having a hard time finding a character that seemed to "fit", and in the end I realized that with the new skin applied I actually preferred the original La Femme character. (so basically step 2 is just step 1 with new skin). I then went on to change the dress and shoe textures, the hair shader, and the vintage camera mats. Step 3: The final step was the lighting (and adding the grass). Also had to go back and run the dress through the cloth room again since the flaps of the dress straps were not cooperating. Adding a constrained group to that area fixed that. Last but not least I did some minor cloning here and there to fix things, and did some fine-tuning on her expression with the liquify tool. I am very picky with facial expressions, and even though the new skin improved the appearance of her expression there were still a few minor issues I had to "fiddle" with. And that is that.Thanks for stopping by and for taking the time to read!