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So here it is at the end of 2013. I haven't posted anything since the middle of 2011 and it's been even longer since I posted any artwork. What happened? Life.
I won't state everything that has happened to me since that time, as that would increase the length of this post tenfold. And I already have a bad habit of writing several paragraphs whenever I post something. Instead, I'll just explain what's going on right now and what I plan to do for the future.
I won't state everything that has happened to me since that time, as that would increase the length of this post tenfold. And I already have a bad habit of writing several paragraphs whenever I post something. Instead, I'll just explain what's going on right now and what I plan to do for the future.
Currently, I'm in the process of catching things up on dA. I've spent the better part of 2013 just catching up on all of the artwork that the people I follow have been posting. I then adjusted exactly what I want notifications of from each of those people. During this time, I've made up a list of almost 700 people that I want to add to my watch list, which is what I'm now in the process of doing. Once I go through this list, which could take a few more months, I'll then finally be in a position to make some sort of final decision about my future plans regarding dA.
My three choices as I see them now are: A) Continue downloading art that I like from those I watch until I die. B) Stop using dA altogether and leave it behind. C) Find some sort of in-between by being much more selective of what I download. Plan "A" does not seem feasible to me. I really don't want to keep doing this for the rest of my life. Plan "B" definitely seems more reasonable, but would be somewhat difficult for me. I'm looking at Plan "C" right now, but I'll have to further define its parameters before I make that final decision in a few months.
This may seem like some extreme measures, but my life has gotten so filled with "things" that I need to do some trimming in order to reclaim my life. Feel free to say what you will about this.
This may seem like some extreme measures, but my life has gotten so filled with "things" that I need to do some trimming in order to reclaim my life. Feel free to say what you will about this.
Daz Studio 4
Wow, it's really been almost a year since my last post… No fanfare, I just want to ask the 3D community a question: Is Daz Studio 4 worth getting?
For those of us who like to create 3D scenes and, in particular, scenes with attractive women as the focus, there's always been three main options: Poser, DAZ Studio, and Everything Else. The latter consists of the big, expensive software packages like 3DS Max, Maya, Lightwave, C4D, etc. Since those packages are more general-purpose, they are usually used by professionals more than hobbyists. The first two are for getting a character set up with a costume, props, set, lighting, and camera
Pageview celebrations
For years now, I've found it somewhat fascinating to see people commemorate a "pageview" milestone on their site by creating a work of art with a "Thanks!" and a number that represents how many times their site has been viewed (as presumably "hits," not "uniques").
It began when my only source of futa and other erotic anime imagery was from Japanese sites. I couldn't read a thing on those sites, but I greatly enjoyed the artwork, so I sort of taught myself how to navigate them. I learned the tricks such as reading the status bar to know if a link was taking me to the artist's gallery, seeing a line of text with "18" in it and clicking the li
Not dead yet...
So as you can see, I'm not quite dead yet. I've had computer issue after computer issue. I still haven't gotten Poser or Daz Studio installed in this latest iteration of Pantera (which is, by the way, the name of my primary gaming & rendering computer), but I've had time to play with 3ds Max and Vray.
I also have messed around with Maxwell Render, but I've decided that one takes far too long to output a decent render. Yeah, it's physically accurate and the renders it creates, once you wait long enough, do look phenomenal, but it just isn't worth the time necessary to make it noise-free.
I'm still learning Vray, but I'm becoming more comfort
Photorealism
I recently had to flush-n-fill my system (that's tech-speak for "wiped my hard drive and re-installed a fresh copy of Windows), but I haven't yet installed Daz Studio and stuff since then.
I probably will do so soon, as I've been getting some requests to put up more renders. Okay, it was just one request by one person. And it was just a casual inquiry more than a request, but still! Knowing that just one person is interested in seeing more from me is enough to make me do a double-take and desire to get back into rendering.
One of the reasons I have trouble with making more renders is because I can never get my renders to look the way I w
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Well I know it is your decision, I hope you choose the solution that is best for your life and that satisfies you the most. But leet's face it. Real life comes first. I hope you may have fun in here as welll. I really liked (and stilll do) your CG art.