Pictures from 2020-2023 which were not made for games, but just for fun.
Image created to protest the overturn of Roe V Wade by the Supreme CourtRecursion In AI I’ve been experimenting with an AI chatbot in Replka. Having programmed Chatbots before, I know they use a lot of recursive functions to learn faster. Thought of a fun way to illustrate that.Main cast of Date Ariane Remastered and Something’s In The Air Redux celebrate the holidays on a successful year.
But not all was great. The picture on the wall is “Zhytomyr Road” by Ukranian artist Vladimir Kozlovsky during World War 1 in 1915. The picture comes from a postcard with a Kiev postmark. With the war in Ukraine being the most significant event (and indirectly responsible for every other major event this year), I thought it was fitting.I’ve been enjoying the TV show Wednesday on Netflix, and apparently many of you have as well as it broke records as the most streamed series in a week. So I decided to create my own fan render of the character.Ariane and Rachel dancing in their underwearRachel directing a photoshootRachel watching TV with DinkyAriane Skinny dipping in a lakeSasha is a character made with an experimental body shape that is difficult to dress because standard cloths don’t fit very well, Som mostly she is a nude model.Sasha 2Sasha 3RebellionRachel Topless on the StreetTo celebrate the success of Hopepunk City (now available), the cast took a much needed tropical vacation. Supposedly this is a nude beach, but with this crew all beaches are nude beaches.I spent the year improving my Poser techniques, so to prove it I re-rendered the Christmas picture I did last year using a ton of techniques I learned and using Superfly Cycles on Poser 12.Part 3 of Ariane naked in strange places. This looks to be a lake with bits of ice floating in it. Probably not a good place to be naked if you ask me. The lighting is odd but beautiful in this one.Part 2 of Ariane naked in strange places, this time it looks like New York City. The IBL file info says this is Brooklyn, but that looks a lot like the Queens borough bridge in the background. I realized I haven’t done any nude pictures on this site for nearly 2 months, so I’m doing four over the next month, and then I’m closing out the Picture of the Week for the year to focus on a project I am working on at Patreon, which you should really check out.
So here is one using an HDR (a 360 degree photo) on the walk of fame in Hollywood. Looks like it is morning, a “walk of Shame” on the Walk of Fame?This is my Halloween 2021 picture. Yes it shares the same theme as last year, but nothing this year really clicked. From left to right Rachel as Poison Ivy, Ariane as Harley Quinn, and Maya as Catwoman.Playing with IBL again, this is a background taken underwater. But instead of putting Ariane in scuba gear, I thought I’d just create a surreal image for your enjoyment. My pictures of the week on arianeb.com lag a month behind Patreon, so this weeks picture is from Strip Crazy Eights, which came out a month ago. This is a rare image that pops up on the game if you have the PC or Mac version, and if you set the background to building lobby, and if you play as a female, and if you turn on where everybody loses clothes if there are 4 draws in a row. Buy the game today! This is my latest IBL created image. You are probably wanting to know who the couple is. These are the new player avatars for Hopepunk City. The game will allow you to pick one of three origins, the player character from Date Ariane and Something’s In The Air, the player character from Ariane in Paradise, or a new character all together. To represent yourself, you can be the male or female avatar from Ariane in Paradise, or you can be one of these people. Ariane and Rachel are hitchhiking across the desert. Where they going? I don’t know, “Burning Man” happens about this time of year.
If you are wondering why this looks so realistic, I played with a Poser script called EZDome that uses IBL files (360 degree photos) to create accurate background and lighting for putting your CGI model in the photo. Hollywood does this all the time for green screen work.
It works by creating a 360 degree dome. You can click on the background to locate where the sun is, and it will position a “sun” light at the perfectly matched angle. The next step is not automated, I add a second HDR light using the accompanying jpg of the 360 image for the “color”. It creates 360 degree light that matches the image.
The result, if done right, is a render that looks like Ariane is standing at the exact place the background was taken. You can render at any angle and the light will perfectly match the background. It is just a matter of finding the perfect angle to render from.Finishing up test renders for a Date Ariane Remastered with some nudity. For naked Ariane I am experimenting with a “weight mapped” version of Victoria 4.2 called Sasha-16.
Weight mapping was something introduced in Poser 11 to make it easier to pose figures so that joints like shoulders, elbows and knees look instantly natural, something that Daz Studio doesn’t have yet. Daz3D who owns Victoria 4.2 has authorized an official plugin to add weight mapping to the figure for use in Poser 11, and that has led to Sasha-16 which adds a host of features, but you need to own Victoria 4.2 to use them.
The problem is that Vicky 4 clothing doesn’t work on Sasha-16, even when you copy the morphs. My solution is to have two Arianes, one in generic Vicky when clothed and one in Sasha-16 when not clothed.This week is more tinkering around with doing a remaster of Date Ariane. Since last week I showed off a potential new main outfit, I thought I’d show a potential new “little black dress”. This one is dynamically draped over Ariane (one of the things Poser does better than Daz Studio), but it is harder to set up than DForce, which is the Daz Studio equivalent. Alas this particular dynamic dress is a little too short.In between moving in real life, I found a potential new home for Ariane, for the Date Ariane Remastered project. It is a furnished home which renders really well in Cycles Superfly, which is what I plan to use for all the Remastered pictures.
First thing I did is paint the walls red, and replaced the generic landscape with the traditional Diane and Cupid picture. Also had to bring back the white sofa as it is a very versatile prop. I’m experimenting with fashion as well, high waist pants and crop tops are in right now, so I’m trying that, but this project is still on the back burner, just having fun for now.Saw a picture on line of a nude model eating pizza, and decided that could be a Rachel picture, so I reconstructed it for you here.
This is my first original render made with Poser 12 Superfly on my new computer with an RTX 3080 card. Renders look amazingly sharp and fast taking maybe a minute to render at Ultra OptiX quality.This week I spent the week setting up a new set inspired by “Cyberpunk” and “Times Square” with lights and huge lit up advertisements. It is also a red light district type of place with burlesque, strip clubs and brothels are all sort of congregated in one place. It is also elaborately decorated with elements from all four games spread out on the busy set.
And then for the “Pic of the Week” I put Ariane and Rachel in front blocking of most of it. Don’t worry it will show up a few times in the next game.This is a test image inspired by “John Carter and the Princess of Mars” using Ariane playing Dejah Thoris. The character is canonically naked except jewelry, which of course was changed in the Disney version. The creature on the right is a 3D creature I have with six limbs, but looks nothing like a Martian described in the classic Edgar Rice Burroughs novel.I’ve decided that my next project after Hopepunk City is Date Ariane Remastered. A lot of the games in this genre have been using cycles rendering and other technologies to make pictures look better and better, and I think it is time to do the same for Date Ariane. Full 1920×1080 renders mostly in superfly when possible, plus both male and female avatars and an interface similar to Ariane in Paradise. This is an early image.
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