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Published: 2008-12-10 02:54:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 2323; Favourites: 25; Downloads: 35
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Caption: Flattery will get you........ pretty far, actually.Decided to try a render of Bastion... I'm not good with clothes, and he doesn't tend to wear much... so it works for me. Plus, I figure his fangirls will like it.
I debated making his cheeks rounder, or widening the bridge of his nose at the top to more closely match thesilentrose's pictures, but if I futz with it any further I'll probably just mess it up.
Bastion is the intellectual property of his creator (which is not me).
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I think the original character is inspired by a blood elf so that's pretty accurate.
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This is just... Pure brilliance. 
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Hehe, thanks... maybe I'll eventually get around to doing some of the other characters, right now I'm distracted by RL and my Squiby projects, though...
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Haha that's okay, take your time! And good job!
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*cough* You did not just see me lick my screen....
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Yowza. Did you do this with a 3D program? You said render but I've never seen anything like poser look this good. Not in a million years could poser do this. Please tell me you didn't use poser. It looks too natural and polished to be a poser render.
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It's definitely Poser, Poser 7 to be precise... the model is Michael 4, with some custom morphing and alot of tweaking the material nodes to get the skin just right.
However, I did use Gimp to smooth out any render errors and also painted most of the hair, and all of the beard, by hand.
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Ah! 
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Well thanks.
But there's a whole lot more to it... I've been at it for around four years now and I still haven't mastered everything. Texture and material editing are what I think I'm best at so far, and morphing... I like it when I'm done with a model and it's hard to tell what the original model was anymore.
If you look at Jigger WIP in my scraps folder for example, the main figure there was a female model before I got through with it.
And Alchemist's Assistant in my main gallery is an example of playing with materials... the marble tabletop was created entirely using reflection and a custom map and the wand and crystal ball use fresnel refraction, which a lot of Poser users never touch.
And the dynamic cloth function is something even I've barely scratched and it's absolutely fantastic for dragon's wings.
All in all it's a complex program that often only gets maybe 10% of its function fully used.
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I will check those things out. Poser is interesting to me as a drawing tool. My friend told me of a method to help with figure drawing by posing a model and then tracing over it. I have old version (version 4) and I'm not sure how serious I plan to get with it. But as a drawing tool it seems pretty useful. Some artists search 100's of stock photos looking for a pose they can use as a reference but if you can pose something in poser then you can virtually have a pose reference of any pose you want. It's just a matter of learning the controls and settings. Stuff like materials I don't really need to know about since I plan to draw the rest of the character myself. Though it is interesting nonetheless and I love seeing the work of people that know their stuff.
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Just as I finished and posted it, Madonna's song 'Beautiful Stranger' popped up on the station I was listening to and I about laughed my arse off.
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I will have you know.
Both I, and Bastion's creator are now gawking at this and making funny noises.
gksdjgghgk.
iloveyou.
just. wow. *__*
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I take it that means I done it rite...
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Thanks! I always worry about that when it's someone else's character.
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Haha, I do the same thing!
Even when it comes down to drawing Bast. XD
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