August Show Off Thread 2022

[Agent0013]

I'm trying to get my prizes downloaded, and Google is giving me trouble yet again. I won the monthly contest for July at Fantasies Attic, as you all have been apprised, and I have not yet been able to download the prizes without the download process being interrupted. Will likely have to go to the download page and manually manage the downloading.

[Agent0013]

 I finally got a good render done for uploading here. It took some long work to get things looking the way I needed them, as the Shader I used for the vehicles were not applying correctly at first. I had to trick my way through it for each car. What was happening was that even though I had one surface selected on each car, it was applying to all of their surfaces, ruining their look. So here is the results:



Pretty Cars Pretty Girl


Three cars are in her industrial warehouse building, each having their own beauty. She had each of them repainted to match in color. The vintage car is a Rolls Royce Silver Ghost of the 1930s. Then there is the Wraith which she acquired from a movie production company, having been used in a movie about a specially built Hero Car. The other car is her favorite; A Lamborghini Diablo, which happens be quite fast, and handles quite well at such high speeds. All of her cars are pretty, and the color she chose for them is mustard yellow. She is a beauty herself, and these cars are her babies, as she calls them. Here she has posed her cars for the photographer, and then stands in the middle of the scene, adding her own beauty to that of her cars.


Credits:
The Lamborghini Diabolo (here spelled as the vendor spelled the name) is a third party product I acquired from Share CG.
The Wraith and the Rolls Royce were both acquired from DAZ3D's Weekly Freebies.
All vehicles in the scene have their bodies resurfaced by a Yellow Metalflake Shader in DAZ Studio. I added a small amount of red to the yellow color to give it the mustard yellow look.
The Industrial Warehouse is an interior architecture model set from DAZ3D.
The girl is Stephanie 6, no extra morphs applied, from DAZ 3D.
The Skirt is from the Sierra Style for Genesis 2 Female(s).
The Top is the SO Tube Top from the Sneaking Out Clothes for Genesis 2 Female(s).
The Shoes are the Boudoir Heels for Genesis 2 Female(s).
The Earrings are the Jewel of Thule Earrings, from the Elven Earrings For Any Figure Collection. 
The Necklace is the Job Interview Necklace for Genesis 2 Female(s) are from a collection acquired at DAZ3D.
The Hair is the End of Summer Hair for Genesis 2 Female(s), with the red textures applied.
Shaders were used for the fabrics and the jewelry to give the look I wanted.
I created three linear point lights in DAZ Studio, and arranged them in the warehouse as they would be in real life.
I also created one camera in DAZ Studio.
I posed the cars and the girl to look as though they were posing for a photo shoot.
Rendered with DAZ Studio's 3Delight Render engine.
Note: I chose different clothing items from different product packs to give my character as unique an outfit as I could put together for the look I wanted.

[Kathryn]

I finally got a notice from Llola on this thread.. but it was from August 6th.. oh well, at least I got one.

[Llola Lane]

I finally got a notice from Llola on this thread.. but it was from August 6th.. oh well, at least I got one.

Sheesh...better late than never?  I'm just checking the thread once a day... to heck with the notices... lol.

[Llola Lane]

Good going Agent... I love the yellow of the cars... although not my favorite color... it does add some zip to the photo shoot ;) 

[Agent0013]

It used to be a highly popular color for the different Lamborghinis, especially the Mustard Yellow shade. A friend of mine in Griffin Ga. had bought a Lamborghini body, and the frame and chassis plus the engine and drive train. He took it to his shop and went to work on fixing it up. I asked him what color he planned to paint it, He showed me the paint, as he already had it, and it was Mustard Yellow. LOL


There are many other colors available for that automotive brand, but Most that I've seen in my lifetime were that color, and one was a softer pastel yellow, which did not look so pretty to me.


Edited to add:
Yellow is by no means my favorite color either, but it does look good on certain vehicles. My favorite color is Royal Purple.

[Kathryn]

Some great weekly freebies at Daz right now.. this is one of the free outfits called Giddy Up for G3F.

[Agent0013]

Eye Candy there, Kathryn! Sweet!


I had to do something out of the ordinary with something I finally got from my wish list at DAZ, for a good discount. It was a set of 38 shaders of various texture types. I had to use an all time favorite figure 'Aiko 3' in an unusual way. So I used a cut stone wall texture shader in place of her skin textures. On her Mitsu Hair is a polished red marble shader from another shader collection. Her outfit is retextured using the awesome grass shader combination system, which I applied manually all add ons to the base shader. In this image it appears as though her clothing is growing from her stone body.
I also included an on the go Pedestal Stand model to act as her statue base. I made the model as I was composing the other parts of my image, including two material zones, and fully UV Mapped. Modelling time start to finish: 45 minutes.
Aiko 3 is increased in size to 250%
A second female figure, Stephanie 5 is standing over Aiko's left toes.
The environment is an outpost on a desert world.
I used the Dystopia City Blocks Skydome tinted pink.


Challenge:
Identify the outfit I used on Aiko 3. Yes it looks radically different from what it does with its usual textures applied. Though it may appear that an item of the outfit is missing, it is there, just hidden by something else.

[Kathryn]

Agent, I do believe that's Techno Tabby... am I right?

[Agent0013]

Right off the bat! Excellent, Kathryn!