Author: seedydeedee

Deedee is a long-time fan of fantasy art, and counts Boris Vallejo and Chris Achilleos as her earliest favourite artists. She was first attracted to the idea of creating 3D artwork back in 2003 when she first started posting art online, and through a rather convoluted and accidental means, stumbled across Poser while trying to find something else entirely. Having tried many of the low end hobbyist packages in the past few years, her preferences are Carrara 6 for modelling, Vue 6 for landscapes and Poser 7 for figure posing and animation. Her influences include vampires, bad 80s horror and fantasy films, heavy metal and the works of Poe, Lovecraft & their contemporaries. You get the picture...

EZ Skin

I got this free Poser script yesterday, called EZSkin and I absolutely love it! Both the images below use the gorgeous Nosfearatu texture from RDNA. Both were rendered with the same HDRI light and a single specular light. Displacement is turned on in both cases. The original render isn’t bad, but on running the EZ Skin script for the…

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Easy Depth of Field in Poser

This is a quick-start guide for anyone who wants to have a go at rendering in Poser and getting those nice blurry focal effects you see everywhere these days. It covers setting up focus distance, fStop and pixel samples – all you need to get nice depth of field effects in Poser!

Update to Bert the Barbarian!

The author who commissioned me for the artwork for ‘Bert the Barbarian’ came back recently and asked me to update the cover with title text.  Here’s the updated version. 🙂  

My First DVD Cover

Following  hot on the heels of my first CD cover, here’s my first DVD cover, for Jack Abele. 🙂

Copyright Infringement on Second Life

From time to time, I get the odd note saying “your art’s been stolen – go see the filthy thief here and give them a piece of your mind!”. 9 times out of 10, it’s some 14 yr old kid’s photobucket account, where they’ve dumped a bunch of pics they like, blissfully unaware of copyright…

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3D Art Direct Podcast

The first 3D Art Direct podcast is out, featuring an insight into Issue 16 of their online magazine.  The second section features an overview of the interview with yours truly. 🙂

Article in 3D Art Direct

I did an interview with 3D Art Direct recently, and the article is in the latest issue of their online magazine. If you want to read the magazine, or access the premium versions of their previous issues, you just need to register for their mailing list (it’s free).