The 3DZone's Nina -- Sneak Peek-- 4

I've been "under the weather" for a few days, so I was completely offline. Thankfully, I'm starting to feel better again. Here's another Nina pic that I started last night and worked on through out today. Nina is feeling a bit sassy, don't you think?



Nina is wearing PixelatedChic's cute overalls and a hair refit by The3DZone. She's surrounded by "toys" by Littlefox, Sam's 3D, and Traveler. The carpet is a Poser shader that I created and applied to the ground plane in Poser. I missed playing with Nina, despite feeling like I was going to die. Ah, the life of a Poser addict. Have I mentioned that I love, love, love Nina? LOL

Well, that's it for tonight. I'm off to take some medicine and settle in to watch Supernatural (one of my few remaining guilty pleasrues). :o)

The 3DZone's Nina -- Sneak Peek-- 3

A couple of new Nina sneak peeks. Poser is still being a pill, so I had a rough time last night and this morning. I swear Poser has a mind of it's own sometimes. Any way, click each pic for a better look.

I really like how this first one turned out. I added a bit of a soft focus to it. The edges of the flower came out a bit sharp looking. I don't know how describe it other than that.



I'm really not very happy with this second one. As it is, this is the second incarnation of it, there was originally a different background set in here. I replaced the background set, and while I like it better with this, I really can't get the lighting to where I'm happy with it. I wanted to show the boy morph that's included though. Can't you just hear, "And where do you think you're going, little Mister?" LOL



I still have a few more. Maybe Poser will decide to be nice and they'll come together in the final stages and render well. If they do, I'll post them tomorrow.

The 3DZone's Nina -- Sneak Peek-- 2

Poser is being an absolute pill today, so I only have a couple new sneak peek pics of Nina. Click each pic for the uncompressed veiw.

I started this scene on Friday. It turned out cute. It probably could have used some more things in the distant background, but I don't have any gulls. I couldn't think of anything else.



Simple pic here. Nina with a backpack. Background is Predatron3d's "The Lounge." The backpack looks a bit big, but most kids these days seem to be traipsing around with bags that are too big for them. My sweater shader went a bit wonky... I kind of like it though.LOL Hair texture here is by me...



I still have a few more Nina scenes that are under construction, so I'll probably be back with them tomorrow if Poser and I can come to some sort of truce.

The 3DZone's Nina -- Sneak Peek--

I recently received an e-mail from The3DZone asking me if I'd like a sneak peek at Nina, an upcoming figure. What could I say except, "Yes!" Nina is so very adorable. I think toon fans are going to love her. I have 3DZ's permission to post pics. Click each pic to view it at full size.

This first pic is just a fae portrait (a quick warm up). I added a couple of ding shapes I made from a font (Manfred Klein's DingbumBats) using Font To Mesh Express Converter.



The second pic is Nina on Esha's Toon Terrace (available at RDNA). I made the pic look a digital postcard.



The captain found a little girl stowing away... She apparently doesn't quite understand there is definitely a difference between pirates and sailors.



Looks like someone got caught snoozin'....



I adore Nina so far. I think she has a sweet little face. I love the fact that she can wear Nana's clothes (except head gear). I'm not good at fitting hair to characters, but even I found it pretty easy to fit The3DZone's Toon Hair Kit 1 items to this wonderful little figure. I can't wait to play with this little cutie some more. She seems to have re-ignited my creative spark, so there will probably be more pics along the way. My thanks to The3DZone for giving me an opportunity to try her out!

Vendors, please clean up after yourselves!

Wow... I'm usually pretty good about installing Poser products after purchasing (it's usually getting around to using them in a scene that takes me forever). Lately, I've been in a mood and they sort of stacked up on me. I've been working on installing stuff the last few evenings. I really have to say, after sitting here spending so long checking and installing purchases... I'm annoyed at some of my favorite vendors. Not because of anything wrong with the products, because I haven't tested them yet... But because of how some of them are packaged. There were a lot of those Thumb.db files in the installers and a few Paint Shop Pro Browser files. Now having to clean up after people when downloading quality freebies is one thing. Hey, they're free, so if I have to delete a few trash files, I'm not going to bitch too much... However, having to delete other peoples' garbage out of installers that I've paid for... that's another thing entirely. I shouldn't have to pay to delete other peoples' junk files. Basically, I ain't your mama and I don't want to chase after you with a virtual broom, especially if I've paid good money to use your product(s). Period. In my opinion, the Poser store fronts should make vendors delete these--and other--junk files out of final their product installers. The customer should never have to clean up after a merchant or a store front. In fact, it's very easy to disable the creation of these particular files all together if said vendors and marketplaces don't want to take the responsibility to delete files from individual product packages.

Disable and Prevent Thumbnail Caching (Thumb.db)

Disable Paint Shop Pro Browser Files

Clean installers would make me a happier customer and I'd be more likely to be a repeat customer. Being a happier customer means I might actually get around to using those shiny, newly-installed products (i.e.to show them off) sooner too. :)

Have *you* joined the party yet?

It's beginning to look a bit spooky at ReadingDragon & Friends' Blog. So far, we've had quite a selection of stuff for you: backgrounds, brushes, gradients, png and psd images, Poser-related goodies, and more. So whether you're a Paint Shop Pro user, a Photoshop user, or a Poser user, there's something for you. We've been having an early Halloween freebie party since the 17th. We're on day 10. There's still time to join us in our Countdown to October!