ShopDreamUp AI ArtDreamUp
Deviation Actions
So I'm going to try to do something this month, and we shall see how it succeeds or fails. What I'm going to try to do is to put up a quick and dirty (relatively speaking) render of whatever I bought within a day or so of buying it.
See, here's the thing. I have a bad bad habit of buying stuff in these sales and then sitting there and thinking, "...OK, now what?" And a kind of surprising amount of stuff kind of ... never gets used. Or it hangs out and doesn't get used for AGES until something reminds me that it's there. As mentioned in the image about the wet maps, I bought the Michael4 02 Texture set back when I got the Michael 4 Pro Bundle, and then never used it. I'm sure I've got stuff from the last PA sale that I haven't touched. So I want to make sure that stuff gets used at least once, just so I can say that I did. (Also, maybe seeing them listed out will help me control my spending ... yeah, never mind that one.)
It is, of course, hoped that there may be clothes purchased sometime during the month.
First image using products from the sales is already up. I'll try to remember to update this entry, just to have a list.
(You realize this resolve is going to last two, maybe three days, right? Just so long as we're on the same page.)
Days 1-4: Jason in the garden of ... something (FWArt Jason, Predatron everything; not shown: Amazing Skins, Sci-Fi Crew Quarters.)
Days 1-5: LNSFA: How'd you like to see my ... artifacts? (Stonemason Sci Fi Crew Quarters, V3Digitimes Amazing Skins; Maclean's Everyday Display Cases); Boris and the Amazing Skins (Amazing skins, Flanders Poppy)
Day 6: Whatever you're thinking about saying, DON'T (LY Brynn, Joe Quick's ExtraOrdinary Men for G2M and Jaunty clothes[!], Predatron's Plants Pack 1, BWC Skies 2 with Advanced Lights)
Week 2, days 1-5(ish): Rien!
Week 2, day 6(ish): "Déjeuner sur l'encadrement de collines herbeuses et des fleurs" or, alternatively, "La belle dame sans regret avec ses boytoys"
- Skin Builder by Zev0 and Draagonstorm (both men)
- Manly for Gianni 6 by Male-M3dia (both men)
- Phoebe's Finery shaders and Fabulous Stripes shaders by Fisty (the woman's clothes)
- Galadriel Hair by EmmaAndJordi (her hair)
Week 2, day 7(ish): LNSFA: The thing before the party before the thing (Nox Aeterna)
Second weekend: Stuff which doesn't count because it was a catch-up sale, and nothing I bought was punchable. (First Bastion's Sci-Fi Quarters, Kibaretto's Luxury Star, and the Fighting Poses will all be seen later in LNSFA anyway.)
Week 3, day 1: Nothing!
Week 3, day 2: Nothing!
Week 3 day 3: ... I'm so sorry. So very sorry. "You did this to me!" (Leather Fantasy Armor for G2F).
See, here's the thing. I have a bad bad habit of buying stuff in these sales and then sitting there and thinking, "...OK, now what?" And a kind of surprising amount of stuff kind of ... never gets used. Or it hangs out and doesn't get used for AGES until something reminds me that it's there. As mentioned in the image about the wet maps, I bought the Michael4 02 Texture set back when I got the Michael 4 Pro Bundle, and then never used it. I'm sure I've got stuff from the last PA sale that I haven't touched. So I want to make sure that stuff gets used at least once, just so I can say that I did. (Also, maybe seeing them listed out will help me control my spending ... yeah, never mind that one.)
It is, of course, hoped that there may be clothes purchased sometime during the month.
First image using products from the sales is already up. I'll try to remember to update this entry, just to have a list.
(You realize this resolve is going to last two, maybe three days, right? Just so long as we're on the same page.)
Days 1-4: Jason in the garden of ... something (FWArt Jason, Predatron everything; not shown: Amazing Skins, Sci-Fi Crew Quarters.)
Days 1-5: LNSFA: How'd you like to see my ... artifacts? (Stonemason Sci Fi Crew Quarters, V3Digitimes Amazing Skins; Maclean's Everyday Display Cases); Boris and the Amazing Skins (Amazing skins, Flanders Poppy)
Day 6: Whatever you're thinking about saying, DON'T (LY Brynn, Joe Quick's ExtraOrdinary Men for G2M and Jaunty clothes[!], Predatron's Plants Pack 1, BWC Skies 2 with Advanced Lights)
Week 2, days 1-5(ish): Rien!
Week 2, day 6(ish): "Déjeuner sur l'encadrement de collines herbeuses et des fleurs" or, alternatively, "La belle dame sans regret avec ses boytoys"
- Skin Builder by Zev0 and Draagonstorm (both men)
- Manly for Gianni 6 by Male-M3dia (both men)
- Phoebe's Finery shaders and Fabulous Stripes shaders by Fisty (the woman's clothes)
- Galadriel Hair by EmmaAndJordi (her hair)
Week 2, day 7(ish): LNSFA: The thing before the party before the thing (Nox Aeterna)
Second weekend: Stuff which doesn't count because it was a catch-up sale, and nothing I bought was punchable. (First Bastion's Sci-Fi Quarters, Kibaretto's Luxury Star, and the Fighting Poses will all be seen later in LNSFA anyway.)
Week 3, day 1: Nothing!
Week 3, day 2: Nothing!
Week 3 day 3: ... I'm so sorry. So very sorry. "You did this to me!" (Leather Fantasy Armor for G2F).
Alas, poor Preludes
After many years of trying to make it work, I've figured out that the skating story I wanted to do is just beyond my skills right now. I like the images I've done, but they are undeniably somewhat static, and the story depends on being able to depict motion in a way that just doesn't work in this medium. It would work in animation ... but the idea of doing thousands of images to depict a one minute segment with fluid motion does not thrill me. I could do it as an image series ... but I've done that once and promised myself to never do it again (see the long image in "The Vault"). So I've decided to finally just push out the images I've done, periodically do others -- I really do like doing them, even though they can't work the way I want -- and maybe someday I'll just write the story, since it will work with words much better than when using images alone. The first two images that were being held for the very end of that story are out now.
DA vs its users ... again: Are YOU Unsafe?
(EDIT 26 Nov 2022: see below) So. An ... INteresting thing happened this past week. Yes, let's go with "INteresting". DA rolled out a new policy/approach/attack on its users this week -- posted, reportedly, the day before Thanksgiving. To quote the actual post: DeviantArt is currently exploring options to add advertisements to the site. To do so, we need to ensure that advertisers have a brand-safe experience, and we're in the process of developing solutions to ensure that is the case. As a result, your deviation may have been automatically flagged as "not safe for brands" to anonymous viewers. Please know that no administrative actions are being taken against your account. Basically, they're having some AI scour the site and marking everything it can find as "not safe for brands" whether it is or not. Possibly the same AI behind DreamUp, since they have to find SOMETHING to justify its existence now that the entire site has been locked off from their own art-pirate ... er
An update to the previous update
The next few Gaggles (and the last few, really) are mostly just clearing the plates. While I'm sure that G9 Male shapes and morphs will be along -- eventually ... someday ... in theory ... anyway, for most of what I'll be doing for at least the next few months, I should think, I'll be using G8. Not because I'm particularly opposed to G9 or anything like that, just because there won't be much of them around for a while, and no clothing, neither. With a few exceptions, the guys in the next few images, I've used as contributors here and there, but never used them in their entirety. So they get one last bow (... all 20+ of them!) before their generation shuffles off the stage. And before that will be a Victoria/Vittorio image that I hadn't planned on doing just yet, but ... eh, why not. Separately ... good lord, Daz has thoroughly screwed up this launch. So far we have - products that became visible before they should have - products that didn't actually become available for
The last gaggles, and also, Catherine redux?
Just a heads up to let everyone know that this week, there will probably be two more big lumps of character reviews, and then that should be it for G8. Unless some completely irresistible characters come out in the next two months, which is always possible. (And no, I don't have any inside information about scheduling; I'm just going by the last time there was a major generation shift. Victoria 9 is, allegedly, due out this month. As I recall, and as confirmed by readme release dates, the sequence of G8 releases was: Victoria in July, Olympia in August, Michael in September. The 8.1 release timing, with Victoria one week and Michael the next, was strikingly anomalous.) For the most part these guys were either Daz+ or "free with purchase" or grab bag or ... well, in a couple cases, I just forgot I bought them. In two cases, they've been hanging around long enough that they're no longer available for sale (and one of those I don't even know where I got it, because he's not showing up
© 2014 - 2024 vwrangler
Comments0
Join the community to add your comment. Already a deviant? Log In