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While preparing for a quiet evening in her cottage, Maerya feels the threat of an unknown presence. She quickly turns to face where she feels the presence to demonstrate her powers of ruinë (fire) and encourage the presence to leave.

I got Daisy 8 in the holiday sale at DAZ3D and really wanted to see what I could do with her. I added a lot of additional morphs to make my character - Maerya. Her face still lots a bit like Daisy 8, but her body/figure looks nothing like Daisy 8. I also modified the shaders to get the SSS effects I wanted. The outfit is Ethereal Fantasy which I finally got to use. I really like it, but it really didn't fit any scenes until now. As you can see, draping it with dForce works really well, and some modifications to the shaders made it perfect for the scene. The environment is Triple Moon Cottage, another purchase that I knew I would use, it just took a while to get the right scene for it. The lighting is from the candles, fire place, "ambient light" included in the scene, 3 spot lights and the two fire props. I had to modify the lights that came with Triple Moon Cottage, they were too bright. One of the added spotlights was to illuminate her face and upper torso better, the others were rim lights. Her pose started of as a canned pose that I think came with the Daisy 8 Pro bundle. it was sort of a good starting point as a general inspiration for how I wanted her posed. As seems to be typical with many canned poses, there were to many problems with balance and extreme body and body part positions with the original pose. None of the original pose still remains in her final pose. I completely zeroed everything from the hips down, and used 3DU Pose Architect to build the base legs pose, and manually adjusted to make it fit what I wanted (awesome tool for making balanced beginning poses). Every single bone above the hip was manually reposed to get the final pose you see (probably would have been faster to create the pose from scratch, but the canned pose really did give me a better sense of what I wanted). I also added some fog/dust to the scene to help the overall mood of the image.

The image was set up in the DS Pro 4.14.xx Beta and rendered using Iray. Very minor post work was done in Gimp (minor adjustment of levels, unsharp mask, vignette, and signature).

Thanks for stopping by, please be sure to zoom to full resolution to see all the details!!

Description
While preparing for a quiet evening in her cottage, Maerya feels the threat of an unknown presence. She quickly turns to face where she feels the presence to demonstrate her powers of ruinë (fire) and encourage the presence to leave.

I got Daisy 8 in the holiday sale at DAZ3D and really wanted to see what I could do with her. I added a lot of additional morphs to make my character - Maerya. Her face still lots a bit like Daisy 8, but her body/figure looks nothing like Daisy 8. I also modified the shaders to get the SSS effects I wanted. The outfit is Ethereal Fantasy which I finally got to use. I really like it, but it really didn't fit any scenes until now. As you can see, draping it with dForce works really well, and some modifications to the shaders made it perfect for the scene. The environment is Triple Moon Cottage, another purchase that I knew I would use, it just took a while to get the right scene for it. The lighting is from the candles, fire place, "ambient light" included in the scene, 3 spot lights and the two fire props. I had to modify the lights that came with Triple Moon Cottage, they were too bright. One of the added spotlights was to illuminate her face and upper torso better, the others were rim lights. Her pose started of as a canned pose that I think came with the Daisy 8 Pro bundle. it was sort of a good starting point as a general inspiration for how I wanted her posed. As seems to be typical with many canned poses, there were to many problems with balance and extreme body and body part positions with the original pose. None of the original pose still remains in her final pose. I completely zeroed everything from the hips down, and used 3DU Pose Architect to build the base legs pose, and manually adjusted to make it fit what I wanted (awesome tool for making balanced beginning poses). Every single bone above the hip was manually reposed to get the final pose you see (probably would have been faster to create the pose from scratch, but the canned pose really did give me a better sense of what I wanted). I also added some fog/dust to the scene to help the overall mood of the image.

The image was set up in the DS Pro 4.14.xx Beta and rendered using Iray. Very minor post work was done in Gimp (minor adjustment of levels, unsharp mask, vignette, and signature).

Thanks for stopping by, please be sure to zoom to full resolution to see all the details!!