Title: Son of a Lord
Fandom: (That picturebook…)
Characters: 
Malachai Schade, his dad
Rating: G (L0 N0 S0 V0 D0)
Warnings: None
Notes: I've been screwing with this for a month. It still bugs the crap out of me, but a little less so, now. I'm taking suggestions on what's wrong with it, because it's gotten to where I really can't tell, but I know it's not right.
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Title: Starshippy
Fandom: ST: TOS (Zahvan t'Masu)
Characters: Spock, Larue (OC), Starek (OC)
Rating: G (L0 N0 S0 V0 D0)
Warnings: None.
Notes: I love Starek's face in this. He looks like he's going to barf. "Oh, what? Are we really doing this? Are we really doing this on subspace? Fffff… They're going to kill my parents. Are you sure my face is blurred out? Really?" And Larue's all, "Don't worry, honey, if he throws up on your uniform, I'll get the drycleaning." But really, I've half-finished like three or four things, and everything looks like ass, including this, but at least this I can write off as 'starships have shitty lighting anyway'.
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Title: Experiments in Dragon – 03&04
Fandom: N/A
Characters: some kid, some dragon
Rating: G (L0 N0 S0 V0 D0)
Warnings: None
Notes: Finished building the wing templates, so now the wings *gasp* match the rest of the dragon! Also, yay for make pattern in Photoshop. pattern-filling scales is so much easier than trying to paste things so they line up.
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Title: Experiments in Dragon – 01&02
Fandom: N/A
Characters: some kid, some dragon
Rating: G (L0 N0 S0 V0 D0)
Warnings: None
Notes: I've done… pretty much no work with dragons, but I have heard that there may be someone interested in getting me to do some work involving a dragon, so I figured I should see what I can do, and get the texture templates sorted out and all. These first ones are using a pair of platemail shaders, wings from DragonBreath's dragonhearts textures, and Gemologica on the horns and claws. The only texture template I've successfully sectioned, so far, is the eye texture, so those blue eyes are all mine, not that you can really make them out, at this size.
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Title: Don't Mess With Spyke
Fandom: N/A
Characters: 
SpykeTyranno, an anthro goat dude
Rating: G- (L0 N1 S0 V1 D0)
Warnings: Goat-dude has been punched out.
Notes: Commission for SpykeTyranno. The request was for an urban fight scene, and here's our man flattening some … goat dude? I'm not really sure. I'm sticking with 'goat' and 'artistic liberties' on that one. Unfortunately, all attempts to render this image larger than 1800×1800 resulted in the program imploding with no error, so that's as big as it gets.
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Title: Razor's Edge
Fandom: Lost Souls
Characters: Zillah
Rating: G- (L0 N1 S0 V0 D0)
Warnings: Mostly-shirtless vampire with a straightrazor. No blood.
Notes: I don't know why this took me four days. Really, I don't. Possibly because it was an indoor scene and I had to light it by hand, and I hate lighting things by hand. Also, dimly-lit bars are a bitch. There is a lot of post in this one. Three separate layers, with different contrast settings. If you can't tell? That means I might not suck at this.
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Title: I Got You a Thing!
Fandom: N/A
Characters: A centaur and a chakat
Rating: G- (L0 N1 S0 V0 D0)
Warnings: There are no clothes, but they're covered in fur. I think that counts.
Notes: I picked up the freebie kits for the M4/MilHorse centaur and the V4/MilBigCat felitaur. Takes a little getting used to the posing, but they work great. I will point out that changing the human figure's hips, or moving the hips, or moving the animal figure's 'Neck2' node will break shit, so if you've got pokethrough and weird intersections, that is the problem. Go poke it with a stick. Also, human figures are parented to 'Neck1', so any pose that moves the neck on the animal figure will have weird-shit results, and will probably need to be tweaked. But, really, they look great... Except for the horse's legs, which is totally a texture problem with the horse. GLOSSY LEGS? REALLY? Tch.
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Title:Â Drow Hunter
Fandom: D&D
Characters: some drow dude
Rating: G- (L0 N1 S0 V0 D0)
Warnings:Â Shirtless dude.
Notes: This is really just me screwing around with UberSurface. While I was looking for help with something I actually meant to be doing today, I tripped over some handy tips for making drow skin look less shitty, so I took a break and tried them out. This is like two hours of screwing around, and I'm not entirely displeased with it. I suspect I'd turn up the spec glossiness, in the future.
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Title: Not While I'm Working
Fandom: Magelight
Characters: Nox
Rating: G (L0 N0 S0 V0 D0)
Warnings: None
Notes: If I shoot this for wall-hanging size, I think I'll do it in 4×5 instead of square. The really ugly parts are toward the outer edges, in the back, but so's some of the really nice stuff, so… I can rearrange things. This is an example of what you're supposed to do with raytracing. Yes, that puff of smoke is actually reflected in three of the cans on the shelf. I've never gotten anything I didn't mean to be a mirror to do that, before, and it's awesome.
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Title: He Remembered His Sword
Fandom: (That picturebook I'm working on that hasn't got a title, yet)
Characters: Malachai Schade
Rating: G- (L0 N1 S0 V0 D0)
Warnings: Shirtless dude swinging a sword at a hay bale.
Notes: I said I was doing this… It's not the first page, it'll be the second or third. I've just spent most of a week trying to wrap my head around British fashion from about 2000 years ago, and yes, I will be doing some half-assed pop-culture interpretation of that, because holy crap, do you have any idea how hard it is to find decent 3D representations of actual historical clothing from an unpopular time and place? Also, woad. Because I like the way it looks. No postwork. There's a couple places where I'm a little unsure about angles and textures, but I think the lighting's pretty good. The whole first part of the book is pretty much going to be overcast or moderately cloudy, because time and place. First person who tells me his name is inappropriate to the time and place is getting told to shut up and buy the fucking book, because seriously, it's ALL EXPLAINED IN THE TEXT. Also, book has no name yet, which will lead to tag headaches, later, and a crippling lack of a master post, for a while.
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