Still rockin'

Featuring more or less the same character from


He's been tweaked a bit. At the time I did the first image set, Gianni hadn't yet come out, and I used Michael 6 Swole to brawn him up. New version doesn't have any Michael 6 at all, replaced with a certain amount of Gianni 6 body (but not full Gianni 6 because Gianni's face is rather ... assertive for characters not designed to take it).

Mostly, this was trying out Sickleyield's preset for V3Digitimes' Amazing Skins and the DAZ Rob Elite texture, along with the light set she provided. And, you know, naked because that's a thing; more centerfold than pinup. (Tawfig Taban may never get to wear clothes at this rate.) Bedroom is largely LLBA Environments bedroom from ShareCG, with textures replaced with Maclean's Room Creator shaders and materials, because the bedroom is very very Poser, and very very shiny in Studio.

AprilYSH's Ciri hair got replaced for the second and third images by ElorOnceDark's XTech Dreads, because Ciri, much as I love it, is very very basic, and it's hard to show it reacting to gravity without it stretching out of shape. (Not that it wound up mattering.) And the bed got replaced by Powerage's Ultimate Bed because I decided to try out deformers one more time, and the original bed flat out didn't react to deformers, which I hadn't thought was possible. (Alas, although I got the bed to dip down underneath him, there's no way to get the fabric pull that you'd normally see without dynamics -- which I suspect would be differently problematic.)

I did tweak Sickleyield's preset slightly. I replaced Rob's default face with the one where I edited out the mustache. (Turns out I did a decent job of that; one thing I've discovered is that Amazing Skins can really highlight editing changes sometimes, and it didn't here.) And I replaced his default limbs with the no-tattoo texture that comes with him, because I cannot describe to you how very very very very very very very much I hate his tattoos. (Normally I like tattoos, but one that essentially says, "Hey, I killed somebody"? No.)

I wound up parenting the lights to a group so that I could move them without changing their relationship to each other too much as I moved him around the room. For the reclining images, I added a linear point light to try to illuminate his face without completely undoing the highlighting effect of the advanced spotlight. Absolutely did not work for the middle image, because I parented it to the lamp that you can see in the top image to try to make the light look realistic for the scene. (Which is kind of silly, in retrospect.) Didn't work at all for that image, although I liked the look, but worked fine for the bottom one, which I rendered large just to see how long it took. (Less than 10 minutes, even though the hair has SubD at 2 to deal with the shoulder kink from Transfer.) Kind of surprised how sharp the shadows are; I set softness to something like 30% on the linear point.