A month ago I reported that AI art might be a fatal blow to 3D art as a hobby. Since then, thanks to a new AI tool called Controlnet, the divide between 3D and AI art hobbies do not look so insurmountable. In fact they may enhance each other in big ways!
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The affect of AI on art in general is not going to be as huge as everyone fears, but there is one sector of art where AI is currently having a major effect and that is in the 3D art community — My community.
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Thought I’d do something different this year for pride month. I want to show off some of my characters wearing their pride flags, and nothing else. An introduction to pride flags you may be seeing this month.
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You have probably seen pictures on the internet involving gender swapped celebrities and other creepy photo manipulations. These are the result of an app called FaceApp. A Facebook friend and fellow Poser user Dodger started putting in Poser renders in the app to see what happens, and the result is usually a deep dive into the uncanny valley. I started
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My Poser work is still primarily done with Victoria 4 which is over 14 years old at this point. Some of the original Vicky 4 stuff actually looks bad by today’s standards, but over the years, new texture tech, rendering tech, and weight mapped rigging has made Vicky 4 stuff look a lot better. So I was wondering. Could I
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As most of you know I am a Poser user. I’ve been using it for a couple of decades now, and while it has its flaws like odd anomalies rendering out of nowhere and the occasional unexpected crash that seems to happen after an hour of work and I forgot to save, it generally is pretty reliable at its one
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I’ve been tinkering with changing Ariane and Rachel from V4 based figures to La Femme based figures. I’ve decided to abandon the project for a number of reasons. First, no matter how close and recognizable the new versions were, they still didn’t look the same. Comparison test after test show V4 versions win every time. I can say that at
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There is a meme going around where people are comparing themselves in 2009 and today in 2019. I made the above graphic to fit in. The picture on the left came from Date Ariane 6.1 that was released in December 2009. The picture on the right is from Ariane in Paradise released this year. I thought I’d post some of
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Since June of 2015, there has been a sometimes less than friendly war between Daz Studio and Poser which basically share a small community of 3D rendering hobbyists. That was when Daz released their latest advanced model Victoria 7 specifically designed to not work in Poser. Now some people have found often complicated ways to get Vicky 7 to work
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I have experimented a little with trying to create 3D images that actually look 3D. Years ago, I did the Stereo “Magic Eye” thing. (this is supposed to be a woman reading a book on a couch) About a decade ago, I also attempted my own red-cyan anaglyph (which doesn’t look that good). So with Oculus Go, I discovered I
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