A Little Challenge

So, my friends and I did a little challenge, and we all had the same rules:  Use A4, Use the tent prop, and then a clothing item & a scenery item with specific instructions on which to choose.  (Either the vendor name or the item name had to start with a certain letter... for clothing, we had three choices - V, S, and Z.  for prop.scenery, we had R, E, and G).  This is my result...

Have a Faerie Merry Kissmas!

I am hoping you all have a most wonderful holiday season, and may this coming year be the best ever!
Thank you for your continued friendship and support, it means the world to me!

Melissa Gifford
MidnightMoonDesigns

Flame Wings

Well, yesterday was interesting... I decided I wanted to try my hand at texturing The Wings by Rhiannon - available in the Renderosity Marketplace.  Well worth the $$ as they're pretty versatile and UV mapped decently.  I had to separate out the maps, as UVMapper likes to pile the maps on top of each other, and it makes it more difficult to determine lines.  Thankfully, that IS something I managed to learn in the short UVMapper class I took at LVS.

Then into Photoshop... and while I had originally intended to begin with something Kissmassy... well, things rarely go as I intend them to.  Thankfully... my artwork IS something that I can adapt to change fairly quickly.

So, they ended up being Flame Wings instead LOL.  Complete with Transmap, and they even "glow in the dark" - i.e., remove ALL lighting from the scene and they will STILL show up - just a bit dimmer.  There is, of course, a way to brighten them for those unlit scenes... and a way to dim them for brighter-lit scenes.

This was also my first foray into using the Ambient Occlusion feature in Poser.  I STILL can't find a good definition for this lighting style, but it DOES mimic what happens RL with little effort.

I did do an oopsie, but it turned out lovely... I used a skin that had the AO effect already attached to it (don't ask... don't know HOW you can make a texture do things lighting is supposed to do... but then again, i can make things glow...)  Then, I turned AO on all 5 lights.  The background is also metallic/reflective, but a dark dark DARK grey, as I wanted most of it to vanish in the... well... background LOL.  Picked my size... and 25 hours later, had a beautiful image.

My lighting still didn't turn out QUITE like I wanted, so I ended up doing postwork in Photoshop to lighten up her skin some and give her yellowish highlights (even though I had most of the lights "leaning" to the yellow-red tones, she still ended up looking purple-blue... not cool for such great lookin wings, huh?).  Only SLIGHT work done on the wings, just to enhance what was already present.

I believe I may make this set a freebie, as I am not 100% satisfied with how they turned out - flame-wise anyway.  First as an exclusive to my online family at the Faerie Hollow, and then a couple weeks later, to the general public.

But, I have ideas.... for more wings.  =D  Maybe, if I can be creative enough, I can even break into Rosity's and RDNA's marketplaces.  Danged annoying if you ask me, stupid exclusive merchant clubs is the feeling new merchants get when they get rejected.  At least RDNA was nice enough to explain why Kyleena wasn't accepted.... Promos, mainly.  Seems... my promos lack LIFE, DEPTH, CHARACTER... yeesh.  Looking at most of the ones by others, the only life is in the lighting - most of the characters look terribly bored.

Anyways.. here's Alice 4.0 wearing Whimsy Curls hair (both by Aery Soul), and TheWings from Rhiannon with my texture, as well as Classic Fantasy by Aery Soul.

Alice 4.0

New update to Alice - one of those collector dollies that are available for purchase for a week or two each december... Aery Soul stuff ROCKS ... and may i say, this is the loveliest Alice ever.

I used the Morph Clothing program to inject Alice 4.0 into the bridal set by Jasmina.... Alice WAS wearing most of the outfit, but decided at the last minute the shoes, stockings, and gloves (as well as necklaces) weren't suiting her, so she removed them.

I decided to try new camera angles... and ended up literally flipping the camera upside down to get this shot.

Steampunk

Just playin around.

Finally, Final Finalized!

Yep, finished it... and submitted on sunday - nearing the end of my extended deadline.  LOL
Anyways, you have to view this as if it was a brochure.  Page 1 is the outside, page 2 the inside.

Lil Bit - Book Cover

Caverns & Grottos - Book Cover

Grotto

I think my muse is still in a turkey coma. While i wait for her to revive, I came up with this...
enjoy.

Digital Doll

ok, not In Design work, and i know i should be focusing on that, but this came as a result of noodling around, trying to figure out what I wanna do.

Stolen (Horror Book Cover) - In Design

More In Design "Play" =D

Mystyc Wyntyr

exploring In Design on my own... this was a lot of fun! Imaginary book... but I wouldn't mind reading it!

FantasmAlaskAE

Final actual assignment other than the final... featuring Kyleena, of course LOL.
I ende dup doing more than I was supposed to - as usual, but I felt it was good practice for my final...

Ship Ahoy!

Kyleena

Kyleena

Bokeh Dragon

Playing with some new photoshop brushes =D

Schism

not exactly what i had envisioned... but, at least i accomplished something today LOL.

Prima Dona

Featuring Kyleena (of course LOL)

The Princess and the Frog

will she kiss the frog??

Aurora, Finished

so beautiful...

Aurora

Eonite came up with Aurora... i've been working with his base and his instructions on adjustments... the green is his, with my own adjustment to get the streaking at the bottom. The pink is mine =D

In Design Lesson 9

this ended up cool!

I Ain't a Doll!

"I tried to be your picture perfect girl
But you were in your own fantasy world
Tryna control me
Like some kind of barbie
But that just ain't me

Cuz I ain't a doll
This ain't a dollhouse"

---- Dollhouse, by Priscilla Renea

Dont Wanna Clean!

This one is a collaboration between my daughter and myself via the internet & Skype's new screen-sharing feature.

Dark Love

Seeking Redemption

M4 =D

Beefcake

Finally got M4's morphs, so decided to install him and check him out. Poor guy has no clothes and had to borrow some hair! Poor Michael LOL.

Anyways, soon as I loaded him up and gave him a skin (the only one I have that looks remotely human), he struck a pose and winked. Then he asked where his gens were... LOL. Told them they were still in the box as I had no "skin" to apply to it and he would look reaaaaaaaaalllly funny with a flat white package. He said he'll wait for a skin with gens included to show off the rest of his fabulous body.

I got him because I feel he'll make an excellent Lord Night for the Thera Lycoris comic (there's an outfit I have to get for him that's just kick-butt for a wizard/mage!)

Midterm Work

Im not going to post the actual midterm, but I will post some of the things that went into it...

enjoy!

In Design, Assignment 6

Assignment 6... and i'm rather pleased with it! On a personal note, with the spot color I chose - it was because it reminded me both of a royal shade of blue, a certain moment in the night-time, and the icy cold of the north. Many thanks to Paul for suggesting I add in the State of Alaska symbol in the background.

Kyleena, Anadyomene

Kyleena, Anadyomene (rising from the sea)

Nixi (new skin & shader)

well, we finally settled on a base texture for nixi, using the same shader that kyleena used.

i think she looks great =D can't wait to see what erin does with makeups and pat with clothing textures!

Kyleena (#5)

once again...

Kyleena (#4)

new shaders!!! =D I Did it!!!!!!!! =D =D =D i rock!!!
Here she is all gothy-cute =D

Kyleena # 3

third one of Kyleena... enjoy =D

Kyleena (#2)

Kyleena, number 2

different makeup, eyes, lashes, nails, etc....

enjoy!

Kyleena

Introducing Kyleena, a dolly I've been working on for several days now. She has 1 base mat, 20 different makeups with matching lips, 13 different eyelashes, 12 different eyes, 30 different nails, and 3 different character injections. she also has options to return makeups to their natural state without having to resort to using the base mat again.

Aori: In the Pink

Manami

Erin made the character, and she's wearing okami skin, jarita hair, and psyche dress LOL.

Faerie Play

just a bit of post-work exercise, trying to wake up and get my muse to do likewise...

Tonja

A tribute to a friend of mine... (no, the real Tonja is much prettier =D)

Blossom

Firestarter

enjoy!

Dreamscape

just messing around...

Naughty, Naughty

hehehe... was bored.