I wanted to make something a bit more “edgy”. At least in the sense of style. The girl is something I had in mind for a while. She’s a bit punk with some goth undertones. The bat she holds is carved with runes that hold some kind of power.

The beast coming in the window is a large (and expensive) model that rendered great. I really like the scene and can only imagine what the rest of this situation would look like if animated.

It took me a couple days and a whole weekend to put it all together. The girl and the room taking the longest. The girls shirt, skirt and jacket were all re-textured. The room had a good amount of re-texturing too like the bed sheet and the added posters. The lights took a good two days to work on. Each test render taking 30mins plus.

In the end I think it came out pretty nice.

There is no postwork here (editing) this is a straight render from Poser (minus cropping and logo).

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I was inspired by the recent Secret World CG intro and had wanted to see how realistic I could get with Poser.

It took about 4 days to put together. The hardest part was the lighting, but that seems to be a constant issue with me. Even still I think it came out rather cool.

There is no postwork here (editing) this is a straight render from Poser (minus cropping and logo). If I ever do get the chance to make an online comic with this program I hope this shows the kind of quality that could be achieved.

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Here is an image I worked on over the last 5 days done in Poser. This is a straight render with no postwork. I just wanted to test out an idea of how a group of teen witches would look. I also played around with Depth of Field. There are 8 lights in the scene and it took about 3 hours to render.

I think it turned out pretty good. I know I worked on it for a long time. You’ll notice the girl on the left is the same as the one from the top of this site (in different clothes). She’s becoming a favorite of mine as far as Poser characters go.

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Due to a little unexpected transaction I was able to finally get an HD LCD TV. This is a 40″ 1080p Sony Bravia. It’s a beautiful screen and when playing SD content it is exactly the same size as my old 32″ Sony (with the black bars on the sides).

Don’t get too jealous though (if at all). HD content is really thin right now. My DVDs and TV shows look pretty crappy. Like over-compressed JPGs. My 2 Blu-ray movies are not enough. Also HD is hit or miss. Some looks great… some looks grainy. I think it’s due to filters or compression type. With older movies you can actually see the film grain. Luckily there is a sharpness setting on the TV. Then there is the fact that not all HD content is 1080p. A lot of it is 720p, which is not bad looking but it’s not taking full advantage of the TV’s native resolution.

Right now I’m enjoying my PS3 and XBox 360 games. All XBox 360 games that I have and seen are 1080p but the PS3 is hit or miss. Many PS3 games are only 720p (shame on Sony). Luckily my more favorite games on the PS3 like GTA 4 and Midnight Club (both Rockstar games) are 1080p. I’ve also been playing a lot of Fable 2 on the XBox 360.

At some point (when I’m not dirt broke) I want to get the wire to connect my computer to this screen. Playing my PC games on there would be really sweet. My computer already plays games at 1920×1200 with full settings thanks to my SLI video cards. So 1080p will be no problem.

Anyway… back to work… (poor)

~gp~

Yet another year has passed by. This blog has become more of a recap of the year past than an un-to-date log.

In the last several months a couple things have happen. More notable is my “sell-out” obsession with Poser, my father going to the hospital for gallbladder surgery, WotLK (WoW) taking over my life and then burning out on it and reading several vampire books. On the creative front, WirePop is still trucking along. I’ve added a couple new titles over the year and some old friend left the site. I still have yet to start a new comic of my own. Not for lack of trying.

So what is there to look forward to this year? Well, this new site design should show that I’m up for something new. It’s a lot different than my usual style. I still would like to start a new comic, but coming up with a story I like has just not happened yet. I would love to make a story with the girl that now dons this site.

There are a lot of good games coming out this year. Aion is on the top of my list as you can probably tell from my last post. There are also a couple good movies like the new Star Trek film too.

So let’s see if THIS year I actually start a project of some entertaining value… If not, I’ll see you year in 2010. XP

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