White Priestess 8.1 discussion
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I didn't see a separate thread for her in here... I thought I would start one.
Materials are what prompted this. Yes, looks like it's the 8.1/nuPBR system under the Iray node. (Has the Detail tab under Surfaces.)
Genitalia section... Female AND Male gens mats. Again, very interesting in the 8.1 era.
As said in other threads... Ears are a separate Geograft. There's a specific set of textures at work here, so fitting these ears to any other texture might take work (like, say you wanted to mix the ears with one of Mousso's skins? You can't just slaw the Head texture on top of the ears and call it a day.
Eyebrows? Also a different model here. Very much fantasy Elf, giant eyebrow things.
Overall shape/sculpt - stylized, reminds me somewhat of Tara being stylized. There's separate People, Full Body, and Head dials. There is no separate HD dial, however. (Perhaps this is a legacy of importing the model from elsewhere rather than sculpting process specific to the Daz architecture.)
Recommended or no? If you're 100% into Contemporary realist models, maybe not, but the textures are an intriguing development in the 8.1 era. The ears are also an interesting choice. There's a lot of novel ideas in this work, so from that standpoint, this is one that a lot of people should look at in terms of depth of work and thoughtfulness in materials as well.
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There's sort of one already
Was permission received to copy the model? - Daz 3D Forums
Except it's completely mislabeled... but, fine. Feel free to delete this, mods.
Do the eyebrows come with it? I don't see them mentioned in the description but every render includes them...
Yes, judging by the zip content.
I was surprised not to see an active thread from first thing this morning. Leads me to believe this figure is going to *makes farting sound* in terms of interest. (I did buy the bundle, tho)
I think it's a great bundle. Full of new products and decently priced. Still getting a hang of lighting the new skin shader but I like the White Priestess a lot.
She´s priced like a core character, has promo art like one, and is named like one. She has a bundle that includes anatomical elements. In a way she´s even better than previous core characters because she has HD.
But she didn´t get a big, loud banner announcing her as the next core character, so... no one is talking about her.
(Just shows you once again how much the entire concept of the "core character" is just meaningless PR talk... but that´s a separate conversation all together.)
For what it´s worth, she´s not for me but she seems nice. I don´t think we´ve had many elf characters like her in the G8 line up. Somewhat surprisingly... you´d think sexy elves were popular?
I like some of her fantasy makeup options in particular.
Any renders yet? I'm on the fence, I don't really like the main character, but I like enough other things in the bundle to make it worth it. If her skin looks OK, I can easily re-morph her but I' haven't tried the G8.1 shaders yet and not sure if I want to fool with them . Also is there a way of using the old G8 shaders if we don't like the 8.1 shaders? So far I haven't been impressed by renders with the new shaders,,,
I love the 2D painting video
I am not really interested in the 3D DAZ model as my renders will never look like that 2D art
I have lots of elves, the eyebrows look cool though
The fact that this is based on a painted character is really interesting to me. She's a little outlandish for my tastes, but I love that they're taking chances. I will buy her to support the effort!
I love her, because I loved the original 2D painting and have for years. I'm a huge white elf fan too, so yeah. I'm all in. As soon as I can get my internet to speed up, I'll download the bundle and post some renders. Might have to kick the hamster wheel harder. I've got satellite internet and we've got storms coming, so it may be a couple of days before I get it all downloaded.
I worked on the textures for her to get her to converted to Genesis 8.1 and added the extras besides the core look from the original artist.
This was one of my first test renders of her to see how she looked with a more human(ish) feel ;-)
The model is just gorgeous in a unique way and the HD details in the sculpting is really beautiful-at least I thought so when I was working on her ;-)
Oh, Jeni that's beautiful. You did a marvelous job on her textures. I can't wait to play with her.
I love the bundle and I'm getting it today or tomorrow. Hope to see more renders.
@JeniMorris - to the extent that you're allowed, would you be able to talk about the process for moving from a painted source concept to a fully realized character? I'm really curious about how that would work, technically. I know there's probably a lot you can't talk about, but I'd love to hear what you can!
A bundle with not one, but two fantasy dresses??!!
count me in!
and a v quick render
DAZ has worked with ArtStation artists to convert their 3D modeling into DAZ formats-That's where the intial 3D realization came to life ;-)
Here's the link to the ArtStation page ;-) https://www.artstation.com/artwork/bq0Ev
OH WOW! Beautiful!
Is there a way to switch her to human ears? Can't find that in the product but in the promos...
The Elf ears are a geomorph; you can simply delete them to make human ears.
tried that. Than she has holes in her head...
Oh well! That did the trick... thank you so much.
I like her, and I will likely get her, but I kinda have to wait until my bankaccount contains more than just dust ^^ And at that time it do depend wether she's still at a good price, or if I wait to a catch up for MM :)
Does anybody happen to know where this headpiece comes from?
I really like her. :)
I'm liking her, too :)
I like her, but she is skirting veeeeery close to Blood-Elf-with-Night-Elf makeup, especially with the hair she comes with (I understand it was an original art piece by a different artist first, but with the amount of World of Warcraft rips on here, it makes me cautious!). She's cute, but after showing a few of my other WoW pals, I've decided against her because of how recognisable she is as a WoW NPC. She looks very nice though!