April Show Off Thread 2023 - Special Effects

[sanbie]

They are great Erika...I didn't even know Katje had done another texture challenge...off to look now!


Um where is your link to your downloads?


Never mind found them lol

[Agent0013]

I was going through my photobucket account and came across this image...


For Agent...Aiko 3
Click to enlarge

All I can say is "She's Gorgeous!"
Thanks Sanbie!

[sanbie]

I did that render in 2008 Agent in poser 6 or 7

[Agent0013]

That was a few years before I got into computer art programs. Did not even have a computer at that time. In 2010 I decided to go to college, to build my credentials in my chosen profession, carpentry and woodworking. It was a requirement to have a computer, so I bought a Toshiba Laptop with a 64bit hard drive. I also bought the student's version of Microsoft Office, as I was required to learn how to use the four main apps of that suite. Among them was PowerPoint, which I discovered was right down my artistic alley. I discovered an ability within it to make objects look 3 dimensional, and began creating immediately. My Computer Professor was amazed when I showed him what I was doing. Even he did not know about the 3D aspect of PowerPoint.
It was another student that told me about DAZ 3D, so I visited the site. The first Application I got was Bryce 7 LE. It was so awesome I got into it deep. About three months later DAZ 3D offered a bundle of apps. Bryce 7.1 Pro, Hexagon2.5, and DAZ Studio 4.0 Pro, all for free. So I grabbed the bundle. The free content that came with DAZ Studio and Bryce was a nice surprise. Hexagon on the other hand was so complex I could not figure it out. I looked for tutorials, but found very few compared to those for another application called Blender. So I downloaded Blender, and was happy to have joined PFDLives at that time, because HeddHeld helped me a lot with his insight on that application. In DAZ Studio I had Aiko 3 LE, Victoria 3, Michael 3, Victoria 4, Michael 4, the Kids 4, and Genesis. Aiko 3 became my favorite figure, as it came with the MechGirl outfit, Nyoko and Mitsu Hair, the Stinger Spaceship, and a pack of Dystopia City Blocks. All of this happened while I was in college, and it made me ask myself why I had not decided to go to college before that time. My time in college was very enlightening for me.
Learning that you did that image before all of what I just related tells me that Aiko 3 had some awesome morphs even way back then. Your character does not look like she is anime, and that to me is amazing. It took me several years to find ways to morph any figure without preset morph packs. When I finally found the info I wanted to learn, which was how to create my own morphs for the older figures, I had Genesis working that way already. Your character helps to cement Aiko 3 into my favorites even more.

[Agent0013]

A3 Sarina Portrait


This is Aiko 3 with the Sarina Head Morph and Skin texture. I used the DAZzling Gaze Eye textures to color her eyes, but added more green in the surfaces editor of DAZ Studio. Her hair is the Nyoko hair I mentioned earlier, but with my own hair color applied. Her outfit is the Dixie outfit for Aiko 3, but retextured using several Fabric and Metal Shaders. All lighting was manually created and edited by me. The Backdrop was made in FlamePainter and PD Howler 12 to circularize and mirror it.
Rendered in DAZ Studio 4.10 with the 3Delight render engine.


I think Aiko 3 can look really pretty with the right morphs and skin textures. I have a few morph sets for her, but not as many as I would like to have. My collection of morphs for Aiko 3 don't even number as much as 10 sets, even in all the runtime libraries I have. Of course I'm always on the lookout for more.

[sanbie]

She looks great there Agent...and I have that outfit somewhere...I loved Aiko3 back then and rendered her to death lol

[Saphirewild]

I did this render to check out a new dress for GF2!!
So meet Barbara (She does love to sing a lot!)

[eblank99]

Soon at Rendo freestuff ... my textures for a nice free outfit for G9F

[Llola Lane]

I did this render to check out a new dress for GF2!!
So meet Barbara (She does love to sing a lot!)

I think I have that dress too Saph... Well done :) 

[Llola Lane]

Soon at Rendo freestuff ... my textures for a nice free outfit for G9F

GREAT textures Erika... I will have to look for that outfit... My runtime for G9 is pretty little.  :)  Thanks oodlezzzzzzzzzz.