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.

Full Size Version

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~