Thursday, March 31, 2011

Poll Update: Race Prefs

Well, it's about 24 days left to go and I'm pleased to see how many people have voted.  Frankly, out of the 20 people I only actually expected about... four.

Out of curiosity a few folks didn't know you can vote for more than one thing in this poll - AND you can change your vote.  Feel free to do so if you like.

How are we looking so far?

Monday, March 28, 2011

Filling In the Gaps

I mentioned a few scenes I've done in the last post but I didn't actually post them.  Here y'go, here's a scattered few.

After this 'Read More' break, anyway.

Ongoing Projects...

Ah me, ah my.

It's been a little while since an update. I've actually not played with LuxRender since the picture of Aya I posted. I'm doing more work trying to get a wider selection of race types settled. I managed blood elves with no real difficulty (the glaring exception being their ears) and I quite like how Lacey, my gnome female, came out.

Then I turned my hand to the female orc and behold, Chekaya was born. I'm not overly pleased with her as she feels a bit scrawny for my tastes - but then again maybe she just needs to grow on me. She is meant to be fairly young.

A brief return to blood elves in order to create Atryth and I was left wondering 'What next?'

©WCD - Orcs Will Be Orcs

What next indeed.

Friday, March 18, 2011

Poll: Race Preferences

Hello, folks!

I'm not sure anyone out there is paying attention but for those few of you who are I've put up a poll.  It'll last a little over a month and relates to race preferences.

What does everyone want to see more of?

If you select Other (WoW) or Other (non-WoW) then please also leave a comment here explaining what you mean!

Once the poll is done I'll post up the results and my thoughts thereon.

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Playing with Lux

Lux is Latin for 'light' and is also the preferred SI unit (International System of Units, or Système international d'unités in French, thus 'SI') of measuring luminescence, the less favoured being the lumen.


It's also a powerful hardware-driven rendering program, LuxRender, and something I've been mucking about with recently.  It's open source (and thus free) and has a number of extremely cool features.  But it's also very slow.  Have a look at these two pictures I rendered up today...

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Remain Vigilant!

Just a little something I did for a friend.

Remain Vigilant!
He has this picture up at work that proclaims 'Raptor-Free Workplace' and says there's been no raptor-related incidents for [BIG GAP] days.  He made his workmates reset theirs the other day because he brought in raptor-shaped cookies.

So I made this for him.  Apparently he laughed so hard he hurt himself, which is certainly a better reaction than 'what is this I don't even'.  Actually, most things are better than that.

Most.  Not all.

Astute viewers will note the dalek.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

The Sommeil, or Le Sleepers

Yes, the name is a joke.
'The Sommeil' or 'Le Sleepers'
This is a render of Ayalessa and her wife* Velispyr, asleep and smiling after a bit of nuptial naughties, based on the extremely avid painting Le Sommeil by the French Realist painter Gustave Coulbert, finished in 1866.  It was a painting he did for Khalil Bey and is considered one of the finest examples of lesbianism in art to date.  It was not permitted to be shown publicly until 1988 because, well, it's of two obviously post-coital women.  Khalil Bey had a taste for them, apparently.

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Atryth and Nalorani!

Atryth is Nalorani's fiancée*.  She's a dancer and businesswoman and has a really nice backside.
Atryth Rubywing Atryth and Nalorani
This is really just a pair of portraits, one of Atryth Rubywing herself, the other of Nalorani and Atryth together.  Their size difference is significant - Nalorani is well above average height (6'3").  And, of course, that raises a different issue: what is average height for an elf?