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I finally got around to doing the next render out of my series "Eveline" caligula97030.deviantart.com/g…, which I have been working on sporadically for the past three years. The last render I did for that particular series was in November of last year: Lynne Proposal
Over the past half year, a couple of visitors have asked me if and when I plan to do more images for "Eveline". I never forgot about the story, but I got held up because for the next picture in the narrative I needed to create a bunch of characters with the DAZ Laura 3 model for Lynne's classmates.
That part of the project got me distracted. I created some new Laura characters and made some renders with them, then I went through some previous series I had worked on years ago (most notably "Sisters" caligula97030.deviantart.com/g…) to see if I could grab some old characters and update them instead of re-inventing the wheel. And... as is typical for me, after I updated and re-textured the old characters, I got diverted into re-rendering older images, some of which I created back in 2006 and never updated.
The newest picture Jenny presentation consumed quite a bit of my time, even after I had the characters prepared for Lynn's teammates. It is much more involved creating a render that has so many characters than one that has just three or four. I knew that putting together the group image would be tedious, which was another reason I kept putting it off.
Anyhow, now that Jenny's little sister Lynne has her classmates, I can continue with, and hopefully finally finish, the Eveline story.
Over the past half year, a couple of visitors have asked me if and when I plan to do more images for "Eveline". I never forgot about the story, but I got held up because for the next picture in the narrative I needed to create a bunch of characters with the DAZ Laura 3 model for Lynne's classmates.
That part of the project got me distracted. I created some new Laura characters and made some renders with them, then I went through some previous series I had worked on years ago (most notably "Sisters" caligula97030.deviantart.com/g…) to see if I could grab some old characters and update them instead of re-inventing the wheel. And... as is typical for me, after I updated and re-textured the old characters, I got diverted into re-rendering older images, some of which I created back in 2006 and never updated.
The newest picture Jenny presentation consumed quite a bit of my time, even after I had the characters prepared for Lynn's teammates. It is much more involved creating a render that has so many characters than one that has just three or four. I knew that putting together the group image would be tedious, which was another reason I kept putting it off.
Anyhow, now that Jenny's little sister Lynne has her classmates, I can continue with, and hopefully finally finish, the Eveline story.
AI-generated additions to my stock images folder
Given that we are close to the end of February and I am about to get my DreamUp allowance replenished, I decided to use up a bunch of this month's prompt allotment and experiment with trying to create decent AI renders. I found out that DreamUp works much better with using an artist as a point of reference, as opposed to drawing upon a previously uploaded picture. I tried using some of my own Poser renders as the base for an AI conversion, but for the most part, the results were pretty sad. The problem was the worst for the lower legs and feet of my Poser characters. In many cases, lower legs that seemed clear enough in my original 3D image were converted to shapeless lumps of deformed flesh when passed through DreamUp. There were a few 3D to AI conversions that came out good enough to post after some editing, but that would have been well under 10% of the prompts that I submitted. Most of them were not worth trying to salvage. Victorian artists seem to work well as prompts for
Update to the Roxie series folder
Update to the Roxie series folder and thoughts on domination-themed artwork Last night I arranged the renders in the Roxie folder to place them in their proper order according to the story I am telling. Check out https://www.deviantart.com/caligula97030/gallery/88689382/roxie The series follows Roxie as she is taken into captivity over her boyfriend's gambling debts, officially processed by the collection agency to become a collared servant, delivered to the woman who bought her, and finally some details of her life under her owner. It is very likely I will add a few new renders of her life as a servant, but I'll see what I feel like creating. As those of you who regularly follow my postings are already aware, the Roxie story formed in bits and pieces as ideas came to me about creating new renders. I finally got around to finishing the introduction and arranging the images so the series makes more sense. Sexual servitude and BDSM are favorite topics of many 3-D artists. I have
December update
(Update 05 Dec 2023) Well, I ran through creating my first batch of A.I. images in DA and my visitors can judge for themselves how well this basic A.I. system works with the prompts I provided. I think the system performed fairly well, and I ended up keeping about half of the images I generated. I will actually have a practical use for the A.I. renders - I will be able to use them to create textures for picture and painting props for my Poser inventory. I experimented with the styles of three of my favorite 19th Century artists: Maxfield Parrish, Thomas Cole, and John William Waterhouse. A disappointment was that I attempted to draw from files I uploaded as resources, but the A.I. system did not recognize them. On that, I'll have to see if a different A.I. system will use character files that I created. I will add A.I. to my tool kit for artistic creation, but that is not to say I don't think the technology remains extremely dangerous. There are a lot of speculations about how an
Thoughts about A.I.
Over the past few weeks I have been both surprised and impressed with how quickly AI images have proliferated and improved in DA, as well as in a couple of other image-posting websites I frequent. I think what it means is that 3-D art is becoming a thing of the past and that programs like DAZ and Poser are soon going to disappear. That is not something I am particularly thrilled about, but it is the reality digital artists are now facing. Even before AI came along, I have thought about what should be my own future with digital art, given the various challenges and frustrations I have faced with hardware and software. I got used to using Poser (starting with Poser 5 back in 2003 and advancing to Poser 11 now). I tried switching over the DAZ studio a couple of times, but found the program more difficult to use and on one of my computers it simply didn't render at all. There is also the issue of the models I have used over the years. My go-to figure is the 3rd-generation DAZ Stephanie
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I like the continuation quite a bit