September Show Off Thread 2023 - Magical Creatures

[Agent0013]

Some nice additions to this thread, showing here. Love the baby dragon testing its flame breath, Erika!
Yes Sanbie, nothing is more magical than a Fairy. I love the pose you gave her.

[sanbie]

I don't have much left of my runtimes since they went walk about with my computer...half the stuff I even forget where I got it from...but at least Daz and Rendo have my list...well as long as it's not too old lol
Anyway another play from me...

[Llola Lane]

Hope you get all your files reinstalled sanbie... Took me about 3 months to get my new computer sorted with my files... I'd forgotten what all I bought... It forced me to make some new renders... It was like opening a box on Christmas Day!  lol

[Agent0013]

I'm planning to get a new computer soon, if all works out the way I want. I'll upload all of my content to my cloud storage from my existing PC, to ensure I have good backup, plus I'll have it on my 1TB hard drive, in case my cloud does not work right. The I can install from either of them to my new PC, which will be a gaming PC with the hardware I need for Iray, and the other high end renderers I'll have.

[Llola Lane]

I'm planning to get a new computer soon, if all works out the way I want. I'll upload all of my content to my cloud storage from my existing PC, to ensure I have good backup, plus I'll have it on my 1TB hard drive, in case my cloud does not work right. The I can install from either of them to my new PC, which will be a gaming PC with the hardware I need for Iray, and the other high end renderers I'll have.

Woo hoo Agent... you're gonna love it!  There will be no stopping you.

[Agent0013]

My brother and I created a new account with T-Mobile, that has just his smartphone  and mine on it. We already own the phones and owe nothing on them, so we are just paying for the service with unlimited data and texting. We had that on the old account with my younger brother, but we were getting slowdowns on that account. I use my phone as my internet connection for my computer. The items I grab for download now come in at very high speed. For low file sizes, click download and in 2 to 3 seconds it's done! For large files like 160MB or so, it takes anywhere between 15 and 45 seconds! That's really fast! Have not tried downloading  very large files yet; like 350MB or thereabouts, but I suspect they will be just over 1 minute to download, they might be less, depending on conditions at the time of the download. That is really great so far as I'm concerned. I have always been a patient person, letting things take the time they need to get done, and taking the time I need to get my work done right the first time. It has served me well in my life, allowing me to gain a good reputation in the fields I worked in. Some of the supervisors did not like me being slower than they wanted me to be, and a couple of them wanted to fire me. This did not work out the way they wanted, as their bosses saw the true value in my way of working. Spending time to get a job done right the first time, means you don't have to go back and spend a lot more time fixing any problems. So I kept those jobs. In the time I continued in those jobs I was able to figure out ways to work faster, and still do my highest quality work. Part of that was in making jigs for the tablesaw to cut parts the same every time, and I made guide jigs for my jigsaw, trim routers, large hand routers, my floor model drill press; plus stops for my radial arm saw. I still have the plans for all of those types of jigs and stops in my head. No need to draw them out, which make the demand for my own work higher. That is how I do work secrets. Another thing that made my work so good is how steady my hands are. With a good Bosch Jigsaw, I can follow a drawn line on the material I'm cutting with no wavering at all. A person can even come up and talk to me while I cut, and I still keep it on the line.
In another profession, which is admittedly morbid, I was the Pathologist's Assistant. He taught me how to do cutting with a scalpel. When he saw how well I followed the lines he drew on a cadavre, he asked me why I did not go to college to become a surgeon! He said I have the most steady hands he has ever seen, never shaking or wavering under even the heaviest stress.  I had to leave that job though as we got one 17 year old girl who was raped and stabbed 50 times, and that was a case that was way too much for me to handle. I have nightmares about that one to this day. Even so, I made sure to do the most precise work possible on that case. I wanted the evil person that did that to her to meet justice in the worst way possible. He got the death penalty, because of the evidence we found on and in her body. By the time that sentence was carried out though, I was long gone from that job, and the city it was in. One of my relatives about two decades ago suggested I try getting back into that field of work. I asked him why he thought that was a good Idea. He said because there's good money in it. I said "There is also a lot of mental stress and anguish in it, which I do not wish to experience anymore!" The money would never have been enough to make me want such a job again.
But to get back to the good here, and try to forget about something like that for at least a while; My patience and my steadiness of hands is the two greats physical assets I have. My intelligence at figuring things through to get the best results is a great asset as well. And finally, my ability to do the highest quality work in almost any job is so ingrained in me, as to be like an invisible appendage! LOL

[sanbie]

   Wow finally Agent...that's such good news...there will be no stopping you!


Another render...using one part of Kathryns background

[Agent0013]

Awesome render, Sanbie! A Magical Creature for sure!

[Agent0013]

New Weekly Freebies are up at DAZ 3D!


Of particular interest is The Venomwhip; very wicked looking fantasy creature. Included is 2 poses, but when I applied one it caused some really bad stretching of the legs, both fore and back! So I am making a set of poses myself by manually posing it, then saving those poses as Pose Presets. These I hope to contribute to the October Giveaway at The Fantasies Attic. If you wish to see one of my poses, an image has been posted in The Big Picture thread, so pop on over and have a look!
https://www.pfdlives.com/pfd/index.php?topic=8579.120


Also of interest is The Dragonling 2; a Junior version of Mil Dragon 2, albe to use the same textures as Mil Dragon 2, and be fitted with whatever can be fitted to Mil Dragon 2.


About ten other products are also available in the Weekly Freebies this time. I recommend taking a look and grabbing whatever you want from them. I already owned one of the product packs, but I grabbed all of the rest of them. Some, I do not yet have what they are made for, but those items are in my Wish List; so I grabbed those items while they are free.


Cheers!

[Llola Lane]

Yep yep.. got'em all last week Agent... Thanks for the heads up and artwork... Not created anything with Venomwhip... yet.  ;)