Free Poser scene giveaway: sample materials, Ix's skin and my Superfly setup

Someone mentioned on the previous blog post that it'd be cool to have a screenshot of my render settings. Rather than do that and have 200 people painstakingly trying to reproduce how I did that, I've just setup a generic Poser scene with all the settings baked in. Yum!


Download here >>>>
(zip link is at the top)

I've set Pixel samples at 7, which gives the slightly grainy result on the left. For higher quality, just up that to 10 or 20 or whatever - depends how much time you've got :)

Posable figurines now on sale in my Etsy shop

A bunch of pictures I'm pretty pleased with...

Wouldn't it be cool to do the She-Ra & He-Man characters and set them up like posable figurines? Who else ... all the Anime ones have been done IRL, how about Leeloo or the Thundercats ... Thumbelina/Tink ... oh no wait, that's how I got into this whole silly business in the first place ...

Golden.

I mean, we all know gold has incredible properties, right? The only metal that doesn't corrode (!); thermal, modulus and reflective properties that make materials technicians get immediate erections/ladyboners.

Presumably in the future we'll be able to manufacture it (or mine it from Saturn's rings or whatever), and weave into materials so we can have awesome sheets of spacey sci-fi material draped over things. So here's a few pictures of
such a fictional material draped over another fictional thing called Ix. Funnily enough it'd be pretty easy to animate Xho slowly pulling the material off her. Or

OK ... maybe Superfly is quite good.

A bit of Photoshop to bring the contrast up and Bing! We'd be done.

I think these renders are quite impressive, especially considering I haven't done anything to update skin materials moving from Firefly to Superfly (which works on completely different principles). Amazing what lighting does.

Long-time followers of the blog will remember I put the Ix model into Modo a few years back and (after a lot of random stabs in the dark) managed to make her out of wood, metal etc. I mean, that's the dream, right? A real person made out of bark chippings (see below) or a solid block of steel?!?! Perfect girlfriend material, right there.

Anyway...

Push ups

I mean ... I say the push-ups test failed, but it's not *that* bad.

Not sure why there's a flickering light though, Poser gremlins no doubt.

Physics ... kinda works.

Have to admit, I've done a few tests with Poser's Bullet Physics, and I'm not entirely convinced it works for humanoid characters.

You have to 'inflate' the boobs to stop them acting like flopping sheets of cloth, and when you do they don't behave very ... booby.

I mean, for this kind of animation it's fine (and the little movement of the hair is lovely), but the truth is her boobs act more like semi-inflated helium balloons. Know what I mean? Like if you prod a boob, the whole thing sorta softly deforms/moves out of the way. Try it. See what I mean? Lovely. Whereas when you prod a semi-inflated helium balloon, the

Lighting test bonanza

These renders are just for fun; a happy hour spent trying to figure out how Superfly raytraces.

Very well, as it happens. Oh look! Glowing lights. Yes please ...

Rendering: Firefly vs. Superfly

The new Superfly engine: slow and NOISY

The old Firefly engine: FAST (but unrealistic)

OK, I've bought the latest version of Poser, finally turning years of pirated software into a legit operation. Ish. Hooray! The thing that convinced me was (1) the physics, and (2) a decent rendering engine (which I think is from Blender?). Just look at that glow around the

Errr... Poser can do physics now?!?!!

OMG, look at these weight-mapped painted vertices! MY EYESSSSSS

I had no idea, apparently Poser brought in Bullet Physics a few years ago, meaning you can have proper JIGGLE, and BOUNCE, TREMOR, WOBBLE, ... you name it.

QUIVER.

WIGGLE.

So. Blimey. this changes everything. Suddenly, we're going to find a lot of wibbly-wobbly things happening.

Although, after a bit of googling and a bit of youtubing, apparently very few people have got the hang of, or even tried it...

Lex for V4 ...anyone?

Hold the phone, I've lost Ix's head.

Help me! Does anyone have 'Lex for V4' - I had that morph from years ago but don't want to have to buy it again!

Without it I can't do Ix's head! Bugger!

<<< Look at that abomination. I don't know who she is, but she's not Ix.

I mean, I'm sure she's lovely and eveyrthing, but she's 70% less cheeky than Ix, eh?

Dicking about

So how's it going? Personally, I've had a lovely few months, but now I'm absolutely up to my tits in work and so ... come a late night ... it's nice therapy to start from scratch, install Poser and have a little look at some of the files I can get through the interweb.

So here ... sans agenda ... are a few random renders of kit on the V4 Hayley model. I put the 'London' texture (ie. Hayley) and head morph on her eventually because the default V4 looks a bit like she's eaten a locomotive.

Free stuff! Free scenes! Free Dee! FREEEDOMMM

I've packaged a bunch of my 3d Poser scenes up, and in line with my general style of being a generous and exuberant mother fucker, I'm giving them away for free! Yay free stuff!

I mean, I realise I could sell this type of thing, and my comics, but the thing is, money is silly so I avoid it. Spend your money on something else, people! Buy yourself a miniature guitar or a plastic donkey or a mug that changes colour when it gets hot or something*

So the download below includes the first scenes I'm giving away: the Bunk (slightly ... err ... used), the Bamboo forest, and 

What humans want

In that old not-great-but-actually-quite-good-and-maybe-great-if-you-squint  film, 'What Women Want', we follow a classic Alpha Male (ie. douchebag) type as he gets his brain bust-up and learns, in fact, that he needs saving just as much as anyone else. And in doing so he finds love, family and freedom. Huh. Interesting, that. 

Sounds familiar (*cough cough Major Tom*)

Been thinking about it recently (not because I have a

Deep questions and ideas and feedback gogogo

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Extras DVD: deleted scenes and top secret development website

Warning: Contains spoilers. If you haven't read Comic 20 yet, do that first. Done that? Great! Want more? Yay!

Head over to the Script Development website which has been secret and locked until now, where you will find all manner of goodies!

I guess if I come up with more ideas or whatever I might add them to that website :)

Comic 20: Project Nemesis

The final chapter in the Space Trek Fleet Wars saga is here!

256 pages, a ridiculous number of sex scenes, some proper stupid banter, and a buttload of greatness. My final STFW comic took a lot of work and a lot of months, but it's sooooo good to finally get it done. Followers of the blog will know I ummed and ahhed about just closing everything and not doing it at all - hopefully from the comic you'll see why I thought it needed doing. I wrote the entire thing about 4 years ago, and had it sitting there as the final script while I did the other comics leading up to it. Didn't want to rush it, and glad I didn't, in the end. Good times.

So it's a story that brings Tom well and truly back into the limelight, solves

[Bumped post] Looking up

Fun to release hints of the upcoming comic without giving too much away. I'm really pleased with the lighting and form on this render of Becky though. And the pre-render visual thing below doesn't give much away either. I mean, that could be Victor or Tom on the left, and Becky or Hayley on the right, and you can't tell where they are either. Could be a spaceship, a field, a bowling alley, on a canadian canoe, anywhere. Who knows, eh? Exciting!

So (onto a slightly more substantial topic..) it occured to me a while back, while writing this comic and the ones leading up to it, that the hotter of my comics (to me, at least) have been the ones with at least a bit of a

Welcome

Hello! Welcome one and all! In case this blog goes quiet (ie Google locks me out as they enjoy doing occasionally), find me at https://nemesisbellerophon.tumblr.com :)

Get ready...

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Drum roll ... the next comic will be called ...

 ... Project Nemesis! What the ... I know, right?!

All the rendering's done; it's 256 pages! Perfect techie/binary-friendly number to end on, there. Only jobs left are (1) the juicy, spermy, drippy bits, and (2) a read-through to spot any errors. Shouldn't take too long but (1) always takes a week or two - so don't hold your breath juuuust yet.

Anyway, here are the first two pages of comic 20. As it's so bloody long, I've split it into Acts like a long play. Gives the