raspberryrain

unpublished scene from 2017 based on some work from 2016, rendered and shopped in 2022
DAZ Studio, Photoshop
Vicki & Grace

I did it! I finished a (pretty complex) comic strip! It took a few days, but I did it!

Ellen Dunkel (through whose eyes you see this, since I didn’t actually design a 3D version of her) belongs to El Goonish Shive.

Don’t worry about me. I am after all a (•(Reptilian Shapeshifter)•) as previously established. Miss Dunkel will get hers.

There is reflected nudity, just barely, but it's too muddied for me to count as 'nsfw.' Well, that's everybody's perspective! Maybe I'll actually set up a new scene tomorrow.

(Previous parts posted yesterday and day before.)

( naked buttocks )

Oh yeah; redoing materials & lights, and reshooting, until I’m happy with a shot! I’d forgotten about that.

I expect some people will imagine this is a lead-in to something sexy. It’s actually meant to be Vicki examining a new character design of mine for critique.

Amusingly: On my hard drive, this is saved in a folder of pictures of myself. Well, technically it is a picture of me, in a sense.

When did I render this? Yesterday? It feels longer ago.

I just found out that the 3D designer known as Studio Art Vartanian died about a month ago. I only had a few of her pieces in my runtime, but there were several more I hoped I would buy “someday.”

I was going to render a scene showing various figures of hers I have. I got as far as cartoon Nia and Vicki 4 in swimsuits and decided just to make that today’s render. The rest of the figures in this scene are by other artists.

The swimsuit design both figures are wearing in this shot was released as freeware. It’s superconforming and the Victoria 4 version even has a “Inhale” morph that works very well both inhaling and exhaling, which I discovered while working on this shot. That’s much more than many commercial clothing figures have, & seriously impressive to me.

SAV sold hair models, clothes, and characters for DAZ figures. I have a Michael 4 character of hers for which she also packaged custom morphs to make his clothes fit better! She was a conscientious professional.

She was also younger than I. I’m starting to fear that full-time computer art shortens lives.

Αἰωνία ἡ μνήμη αὐτῆς.
Ζωή σε σας.

I’ve not posted anything that was unambiguously a comic strip for three weeks, but I seem to be rendering shots that look like they would fit in one.

Vicki 4, for those who don’t know, is the virtual model most of my characters are built from. This is her default face.