May Show Off Thread 2025 - Plant Portraits

[Llola Lane]

Just lovely Agent.. and a great backstory ;)   

[Agent0013]

It took a good bit of work to bring it all together the way I wanted it. I tried other outfits first, but they were not fitting the story I had in mind. I needed her to be dressed in something she made herself from available plants in her area and the leaves fit the bill. I used morph dials to shape her facial features, and body morph dials to shape her body to the shape I thought would be best, The hair was at first the addi base cap and a long ponytail add on for V4 and A4, but the render was not looking right  I went through other hair before settling on the one I finally used. It just looked like the best choice. She is not wearing makeup, because on her world it was never invented. Besides I like the natural look over makeup much better, makeup makes a woman look fake most of the time, and very few women can wear makeup and actually do it right. Caked on never has looked good to me. lol

I have the Ivy Generator and was going to import the sphere into in to make Ivy for it but then I thought, I need to make a different shaped leaf texture for it, so I'm saving that job for a later image depicting the same world. I'm looking for a good HDRI I can use to show a different area of the planet, and I want it to be a night time scene. I might try making one in Bryce 7.1 Pro, and export it then import it into DAZ Studio. I want the nighttime scene to be a bit cloudy and have a rather largish moon rising.

OK, as you can see I'm already planning my next scene for this story line. lol

Thanks for the compliment, Llola!

[SofaCitizen]

Not been around for a while, sorry. I have tried to come up with something worth rendering but creativity has been tough to come by recently.

I shall humbly submit this one tho as it mostly fits the theme.

I hope everyone is doing well and sorry to hear about the sad cat news earlier :(

[Llola Lane]

Oh Sof... that is wonderful... I'd gladly sit under a tree with that guy(?) on a lovely day like that.  :)

[Agent0013]

That is a very interesting tree, and it does fit the challenge theme quite well! Love the castle, and the Minotaur. I zoomed in to try seeing what that is up in the branches, but for some unknown reason, I can't figure it out. The Minotaur seems to be trying to figure it out too! LOL 

I love this picture!

[Kathryn]

Good afternoon strangers.. here's a little something I whipped up in Daz Studio called Sahel's Crystal Ball.

[SofaCitizen]

Oh Sof... that is wonderful... I'd gladly sit under a tree with that guy(?) on a lovely day like that.  :)

Thank you Llola :)
Yes, he is a very gentle minotaur who just wants to sit under the oak tree smelling the flowers :)

That is a very interesting tree, and it does fit the challenge theme quite well! Love the castle, and the Minotaur. I zoomed in to try seeing what that is up in the branches, but for some unknown reason, I can't figure it out. The Minotaur seems to be trying to figure it out too! LOL

I love this picture!

Thank you Agent :)
The object in the tree is just my signature object - coloured in Red and Yellow to go with the Spanish flavour. It's quite tricky to work it subtly into the picture when it's mostly nature so I think I am just going to be a little random with it in future renders like that :)

[Agent0013]

Thank you SofaCitizen, for the explanation of the thing in the tree! A very clever use of you Signature Logo! Makes me like it even more!

To all members:
I will be creating the June Show Off Thread sometime tomorrow, so be on the lookout for it! I have an interesting Idea for the theme, plus another interesting Idea, and another! LOL
Not sure which one I like best, so I'm gonna roll my 3 sided dice to decide which one to go with! Yes 3 sided dice do exist! I have a large collection of dice with several odd and even numbers of sides; from 0 to 100! My zero sided one is just a 5/8 inch wooden ball. I have so many dice with different amounts of sides, I got to thinking, "Why is there no zero sided dice?" So I invented it! What score do you get when you roll it? Hmmm! Seems to me, there is no score! LOL

Now I have to wonder "What game could be played with it?", and "How would the players determine who the winner is?" "Would there even be a winner, or a loser?"

Things that make you go "HMMMM!"

[Agent0013]

Did I ever tell you guys; I'm weird? No?

I'm weird!

[DanaTA]

Thank you SofaCitizen, for the explanation of the thing in the tree! A very clever use of you Signature Logo! Makes me like it even more!

To all members:
I will be creating the June Show Off Thread sometime tomorrow, so be on the lookout for it! I have an interesting Idea for the theme, plus another interesting Idea, and another! LOL
Not sure which one I like best, so I'm gonna roll my 3 sided dice to decide which one to go with! Yes 3 sided dice do exist! I have a large collection of dice with several odd and even numbers of sides; from 0 to 100! My zero sided one is just a 5/8 inch wooden ball. I have so many dice with different amounts of sides, I got to thinking, "Why is there no zero sided dice?" So I invented it! 

Now I have to wonder "What game could be played with it?", and "How would the players determine who the winner is?" "Would there even be a winner, or a loser?"

Things that make you go "HMMMM!"

Ummm...geometrically speaking, a ball is a sphere...which has one "side".

Bocci?  Croquet?  For a game, there would have to be desired result.