Pommerlis

You may have noticed!

I have decided to give myself some presents this year since we worked hard for some extra’s. Most of my wage will be going to renovating our holiday-home, a caravan wich we are renewing and updating to luxurious standards. We did the bathroom some years ago and this year, thanks to a bit of luck, we are able to really build an extra portion that will become our new livingroom. We never expected to have this extra income but now we have saved up, I think we can spend some on ourselves aswell.

At the end of each year it’s custom in this country for employers to give some extra money with the monthly wage and this year we are spending my bonus on some clothing, shoes and some luxury items. For me personally I’ve chosen to buy myself an annual plan for this blog of mine. Also because my “job-contract” is only for one year and coming april I will be fully concentrating on my 3D-Graphics again. I figured that an ad-free blog was something I deserved. 🙂

To get myself started again I thought about giving LaFemme and her big sister LaFemme 2 some nice T-Shirts inspired by the soccertods I did for LilBit. For LaFemme there is this dynamic T-Shirt I find easy to texture and the Dutch supporters allready have two options.

Option 2 has a very small difference with the sleeves. So let me know wich of the two you would like best. Of course these soccertods will be my freebie made available only here on this blog and there will be more countries.

For LaFemme 2 I have chosen a conforming T-Shirt wich is a little harder to get the textures right but I will try.

My goal for the coming year is to create some poses for both LaFemme 1 and 2 and also for Genesis 8 and 9. I will start slowly in the new year because we are renovating the caravan and I will still have to work for the first three months.

But, first things first. The festive season. I want to wish everybody a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New-Year!

Greetz
Pommerlis

Slowly Returning…..

It’s been quite a year for me and my family, wich we are ending with covid for the both of us. Luckily we got our shots the first time around so now it’s more like a enormous flue with all the bells & trims that go with it. But so far so good, we are alive and getting better.

My PC is finally back to being restored to the full content, well…..almost that is since I did have to eliminate quite alot dating back to good old Poser 5 & 6. Those were the days….but with Poser 12 running and version 13 around the corner alot of the content is nog longer compatible I’m afraid. It’s a shame really because some of that old content is very dear to my heart. Not to mention expensive to renew everything.

It made me realize that there are probably alot of people out there who do not have the financial means to keep buying new software and content so I’m slowly searching through my ancient stuff to see wich is still a bit nice and will see if I can’t put up some of it here for free. I’ve started with some of my very old poses for Victoria 4 & Michael 4.

For those who keep a little track of this blog they may notice that two of my retired items have been moved to the “Exclusive”-freebie section and have been made available for download.

The two pose sets I made for Victoria4 & Michael4 are now free for download in my Exlusive Freebie Area on the third page HERE.

Please, do read before downloading. These poses are old and were made some years ago. They were never tested in the latest versions of Poser and/or DazStudio so I can not guarantee if they are compatible at all with the new software. But for those who can still find a use for them please feel free.

Greetz,
Pommerlis

What I’ve been up to….7

Things have been moving alot in my life lately. I finally have a new, read refurbished, laptop, for my digital Art and I have……wait for it…..a full time job. So digital Art is back to hobby hours for a while. It did enable me to buy Poser 12 and re-install DazStudio. I am re-organizing all of my 3D content, wich is a lot, on the laptop. I’ve managed to fill up 32% of my 2TB allready sooo….I really need to filter some of it out.

For our caravan/holiday home this means renovation starts earlier then planned and it will be a complete renovation since we have the budget to match it now. Of course we are waiting for the reno-plans to be approved and that can take a couple of months. For now we are just making plans and I’m contemplating colors & styling plans. I might post a serie of this when we are actually starting if you all like.

Then there is this online thing of my 3D stuff. I don’t quite know whether to keep WordPress and take a subscription or start my own website. Subscription cost is not the issue, it’s mainly the online storage that has me wondering how expensive that is going to get. So I’m still puzzling on that.

In the meantime,….

Greetz,
Pommerlis

What I’ve been up to….6

Waiting for something – esspecially something you really want – is always hard and costs alot of patience. But since there is not much else I can do, it’s back to work as usual.
Finishing my products that I had started on such as the Garden Leisure poses for Hivewire Dawn and the Patio-Set.

I still don’t know how big I’m going to make this set, maybe add 4 more poses for the patio-set itself. I’ve also saved several poses zeroed on the axes so people may use them on other chairs or furniture and of course some partials for the LowerBody & UpperBody.
I was thinking as a small addon to create some animal poses aswell for the Hivewire Bigdog to match these poses.

Up to now I have a total of 16 poses to match the patio-set and have the figures interacting with each other. These are also incuding the poses needed for the chairs. I have saved 14 poses to be used as individual poses and of course 14 partial Lower- and UpperBody poses. Included will also be the much needed Defaults for the various elements.

I could add some more detailed poses of Dawn drinking or being served with food or drink but I’m not sure about that. It would require extra content that people may not have and then they would need to tweak the pose maybe to much to get the same result.

For now I will start to save them in DazStudio.

Greetz
Pommerlis

What I’ve been up to….5

Since there are some things going on in the background I’ve started some of the poses I have on my list. One set being the patio-poses for Dawn of course.

But there has been another set playing on my mind since finding out that the Dragonbraid for Dawn would not move over to Renderosity. I have been looking for a braided hair and I found some real nice hairstyles made by Ali. I chose the Hr229 to start with, basically because the hair by Ali is for more characters.

I decided to created some poses for the Hr229 for Dawn for the Everyday Poses that come with Dawn Special Edition. I like that the braid can be made longer so I can create two type of poses. For the basic short version of the braid and for the braid length set at 1.000.
This way I can still re-create the Dragonbraid poses a bit. I won’t include the poses I made esspecially for Dawn since people have allready bought the Little Miss Braided & Braided Again sets for Dawn. People would have to pay twice for the same poses for Dawn that were created initially to match with the Dragonbraid.
Instead I will create braid poses for the second Everyday Poses set for Dawn that is available as a seperate set at Renderosity.

For LaFemme I have a set in mind with just the basic braid size since I will create some poses for LaFemme to go with this set. It will probably based on the poses I created for Dawn. Even though the two characters are not the same and some tweaking is needed.
After Hr229 I have another lovely hairstyle in mind, I believe it’s Hr232 with two braids.

And I have some other sets planned that will depict characters in the daily life of things, as family, as friends and of course their pets.

Greetz
Pommerlis

Freebies….SoccerTods (part 1)

Several years ago – during some World Cup Soccer event – I started to create textures for clothing items made by Trumarcar for Lil’Bit, a Toon Character made by RedSpark wich is still available at Daz3D.
The textures represent the various nations of the world that would participate in the World Cup and the official name is “The International Tods Support your Sport Club” – otherwise known as The SoccerTods. The plan was back then, to create clothing textures for all the nations but I never managed to finish them all. The first two sets – each containing textures for 8 countries – are available at KCTC.

Now the European Cup for Soccer has started, I’ve picked these textures up again and I’m hoping to finish some more of them while the European Cup Event lasts. When the tournement is over I will be back creating the normal freebies and products.

There are 4 new sets of textures. There are textures for Italy, Turkey, Switzerland & Wales added to the SoccerTods.

Mind you, it has been quite some years since the first textures were created and there are some newer versions of Poser. The first 2 sets date back to 2014 and they still contain Matposes (Pz2 format) that will only work in Poser versions up to Poser 9, maybe PP2012. Don’t worry, those older sets also contain the MC6-format that is used in the Material Room and that works fine in the latest versions Poser 11+

The new textures were created in Poser 12 so the earlier versions will get a Pop-Up about it being content created for a newer version. It will still work though.

For these textures, please go to my new page called “My Freebies Here & There” wich you can find in My Store & Freebies or just click HERE

Let me know if there are any issues.
Have fun creating.

Greetz
Pommerlis

What I’ve been up to….4

It’s a bit chaotic at the moment with all sorts of activities in real life intervening in my Poser-time. The garden needs doing, renovations & repairs are due and of course your everyday housework that keeps coming back. And then there is the creation and planning of the next Dawn.

Dawn 2.0 is being created and I’ve had the pleasure of trying my poses for Dawn 1 to see if they would fit her or that some tweaking may be needed. Dawn 2.0 has a different rigging and though she “flows” in movement just like the original Dawn, she has less body segments then her predecessor.
On the left you see ‘Instyle Pose 02′ on the original Dawn and on the right you see the same pose directly applied to Dawn 2.0 and if you wouldn’t have the two next to each other, you probably wouldn’t notice that much difference.

But as you can see, there is some tweaking needed. The pose isn’t quite the same and I must say, with these type of poses the differences aren’t all that bad. A little tweaking in the limbs and refine the movement a bit in the abdomen, chest & neck.

All in all I don’t think I will have alot of work adjusting my poses for Dawn 1 to fit Dawn 2.0.
But as much as the individual poses won’t be that much of a problem, I fear the duo-poses for when the rest of the family has been upgraded because the Dusk 2.0 & BabyLuna 2.0 are being created also. So I’ve heard.

In the meantime I’m still working on my poses for Dawn & the Patio, planning some poses for L’Femme & L’Homme and I’m working on some free poses to add to my existing sets.
Doing Laundry is still being created but after some excellent tips I’ve decided to replace BabyLuna for Diva.

It was mentioned that in real life a child as young as BabyLuna was far to young to be doing laundry with mum or dad so it was suggested to use maybe Diva. And of course they are right. So I changed the pose immediately from BabyLuna to Diva and now it makes alot more sense.

As with all my poses, the hard part are the hands & fingers. They take up most of my time. I haven’t decided yet wether I will release this first “free AddOn” on my page at Renderosity or here at my blog. I think it only seems right to release it at Renderosity since my set is also available there.

Greetz
Pommerlis

Freebies….Doing Laundry

When you are a bit aquainted in the world of 3DComputer Graphics, you will know that it is hard to find some everyday commonplace items in a tidal wave of a post apocalyptical fantasy world filled with scarcely dressed warrior women, stereotype male heroes, dragons & monsters. Or the just as scarcely dressed modern day girls with the same stereotype muscular heroes in a 21th century setting. Or maybe the same in a science fiction background. And if it aren’t the warrior types, it’s the Dynasty Eleganza that overtakes the space that is left.
But whatever the era or style they may portrait, they never ever seem to eat or do any menial household chores like the dishes, cooking or laundry. Poser & Daz characters have an even easier life then in any commercial. Always beautifull – to perfection – and never have to do any boring work.

So for a person like me, who takes her inspiration from everyday life as it unfolds, it’s sometimes hard to create the poses I like. Simply because the items needed are hard to find or I haven’t gotten round to buying them yet. Finally I bought some of 2World’s Everyday Items in order to create some of the poses I’ve had in mind for quite some time now.

And I have decided these little sets of poses, containing maybe one or two poses depicting a domestic scene from every day life, will be made available as a freebie and will serve as an addon for my existing sets that are available in my store at Renderosity.
How I will offer them is still something I’m thinking about. Exclusively at this blog or on my freebie page at Renderosity.

Greetz
Pommerlis

What I’ve been up to….3

Trying to create four poses of wich there are two pairs of mirrored poses is quite a challenge and I’m not very pleased with the results.

**Original Pose left – mirrored on the right**

With the first original pose I had created it was very easy to re-create it’s mirror with the symmetry function in Poser. Dawn, being very versatile due to her extra body segments, needs some tweaking after that. You have to adjust her Abdomen 2, Chest 2, Neck 2 and her Pelvis by hand. I usually have to mirror only on the side-side & twist rotation axis. Plus you have to switch her feet manually.

But then I wanted to re-create the original pose on the other chairs aswell. Rotating the figure 45° and then mirror that pose to the opposite side. That didn’t quite work out that way.

Not as symmetrical as I had created the first 2 poses. East and West is easy, mirroring North and South not so much.

It doesn’t look so bad facing the front but you can allready see the chairs are not aligned, at least to my satisfaction and when you see the group from another viewpoint you get a clearer picture.

I can’t get it right and it is getting on my nerves. Having tried these and some of the other poses, I have abandoned the idea of having the same pose 4 times for all four chairs. I will mirror each pose but some of them will be mirrored on the same chair while others will be mirrored to the opposite chair. Simple because the pose mirrors only from East to West and not from North to South.

Like this pose where the torso is facing sideways and the legs are facing towards the table. For me to mirror this pose I would use the symmetry function, switching left & right creating it’s mirror from East to West. But having it position it on the opposite chair, facing the legs towards the table, it would also have to turn from North to South. That I would have to do manually and it just is to much of a pain to get it just right.

So while Dawn & friends are trying to look for my mathematical skills, I’ll create some new poses in the meantime and some people have suggested some great idea’s for poses on and around a Patio-Set.
If any of you have some suggestions, please leave them in your comment.

Greetz
Pommerlis

What I’ve been up to….2

Finally I have a day to myself and the weather being rather nice I can sit at our large table in our kinda open conservatory. It really shouldn’t have that name since it’s just a halfopen space you can sit and close with fancy tarp when it rains. It holds our large dining set for the moment untill we have the plans & means to renovate the extension to our caravan. It’s really necessary that it will be renovated because like everything else, it’s old and in need of repair.

In the meantime I’m picking up the work I had started on before we left for our “summer residence” where we will stay untill october hopefully.
I started work on a extensive set of poses for Hivewire Dawn & the Hivewire Patio-Set. I wasn’t planning on making it a big set but as usual I get a bit carried away.

I decided that since there are 4 chairs around a table, each pose should at least be made for each chair so I started creating mirror poses.

Mirroring a pose isn’t really that hard, if it’s the exact opposite. Like from left to right. You just use the symmetry option and tweak the placement of the figure in the scene, not that much work. But it gets harder when you have to turn a figure only 45°, then the left to right doesn’t really work that well.

It became a problem to create the same pose correctly turning it 45°, for some odd reason the legs didn’t want to be posed in the same direction as the original pose and still look natural. I had to adapt the pose of the legs going away from the table to still have a natural look in the pose. So this turning/mirroring 45° required alot more tweaking then I first imagined.

**Pose on Chair 02 (Mirror from Chair 04)**

Thinking this would be a one time thing and I could mirror that pose to the opposite chair was rather silly, nope…..left to right works like it should but from top to bottom or up/down doesn’t mirror the same way. I think it’s a hip thing and posing the hip exactly as mirrored from another pose is almost impossible to do by hand. As long as you rotate around one axis it works fine but when you start to rotate a hip pose over 3 axis, it becomes a real struggle to get is exactly the same. Poser will mirror the hip from left to right perfectly. But when you wish to turn a pose 45° it’s a bit of a thing.

The poses are slightly different now and I think I will have another look at it because I really want to see if I can’t re-create that pose turning 45° as it was originally intended, with the legs moving towards the table.

I’m also creating some standing poses to go with the set, as an interaction with those who are seated at the table. They also will be mirrored.
I have also created serveral Defaults and Partials for the UpperBody & LowerBody so people will be able to create their own poses around the Patio-Set or, if they don’t have this particular Patio-Set, create poses for Garden Furniture they do have. Mind you, the poses are being created for the HiveWire Patio-Set so when people would use different chairs they would need to tweak a pose.

Greetz
Pommerlis

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