Genesis Custom-Dialed Character Contest (WIP/Discussion thread - now with results posted!)

Chohole · June 2013

OK, so for clarification, this is the post that you want me to move ? http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/23099/#343991

Scott Livingston · June 2013

MickyBel and Satira Capriccio, your characters look great! :) Thanks for sharing them here, and feel free to enter the contest if you wish to.

Scott Livingston · June 2013

I'd like to share one of my own WIPs...

Hopefully you recognize the person I'm trying to re-create, but just in case, it's Edgar Allan Poe. The image below is my first draft of him, and uses nothing but David 5 (at full strength) and a variety of DieTrying morphs. I think it's the first time I've used the DieTrying morphs on their own, without morphs from other sets. I was pleasantly surprised how close I could get to Poe's appearance with these free morphs alone.

Primary reference

Scott Livingston · June 2013

And here's a more recent effort at Poe, using David 5 mixed with Michael 4 shape and morphs from several sets. In some ways, it looks less like him than the previous image, but I think that's mostly lighting, to be honest. I'm at the frustrating place right now--that some of you are probably familiar with--where the preview window looks almost just right, but then I click Render and I'm somewhat disappointed to see that it's not quite as close to perfect as I expected. The other thing I'm struggling with is balancing realism with indentifiability--I could easily make him more recognizable, but it would mean turning my character into a caricature rather than a realistic portrait.

Of course I'm not going to be entering my own contest, but in my mind this is informally part of the competition...everyone else's excellent work is inspiring me to push myself to see what I can accomplish.

Additional image used as a secondary reference--a slightly younger Poe

Kerya · June 2013

MickyBel: they are both very, very cute!

Satira Capriccio · June 2013

Thanks. He's on his way to being an official entry. The scene is finished, so unless I change my mind and decide to add something more, it's time to start rendering and then the postwork.

Scott-Livingston said:
MickyBel and Satira Capriccio, your characters look great! :) Thanks for sharing them here, and feel free to enter the contest if you wish to.

cecilia.robinson · June 2013

Yes, that is it. Thank you, Chohole. I assume if you're hiding it, it will be possible to bring it back once you folks have given my some feedback? I hold particular interest in your opinion about my decision to introduce both human and animal characters. Other entries include either people or fantasy/sci-fi creatures.

I'll copy the contents into a Notepad file anyway...

Scott Livingston · June 2013

Can you post it here in the WIP thread? (Or is it okay if chohole sends it here?)

Chohole · June 2013

Well I don't have to hide it, it can be put in this thread if you like. But will fall in place by it's time stamp.

edit LOL snap Scott. gmta

mmalbert · June 2013

Well, I decided not to enter anything because this is a Genesis-focused contest and I can't get DS4 to run on my computer. But I love dialing character -- it's just fun -- and I was reminded that I hadn't yet used the Creature Creator V4M4 Bundle I'd acquired for $1.99 as part of a past Plat Club March Madness deal. Seems a shame to buy all this stuff and then not use it!

So I made a mermaid. I wanted to elongate her body and neck more than I did, but there are limits to scaling along the Y-Axis, especially in the chest area. I'm including a few test renders because the actual image obscures most of her skin detailing, which is too bad because it took me a while to get it to look right. By habit, nearly all my images are cropped with book covers in mind...whether I ever intend them for covers or not. By now, I think it's just reflex.

The inspiration for the character's name is pretty obvious. :)

Aquariel

"A mermaid has not an immortal soul, nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny." - Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

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** Software **

DAZ Studio 3.1 Advanced
Paint Shop Pro X3
Filter Forge

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**Aquariel Dials **

Scaled: Neck 105% Y-Axis; Chest 103% Y-Axis; Abdomen 105% Y-Axis

Body, Elite Shapes
- Sylph, 0.65
Body, Creature Creator
- Faerie Body, 0.75
- ThreeFinger, 1.00
- NailsClaw, 1.00
Body, Morphs++
- HeadSize, 0.030

Head, Creature Creator
- Full Head, AlienHumanoid, 50%
- Full Head, Faerie, 50%
- Full Head, SeaCreature, 50%
- Ears, EarFin, 50.5%
- Mouth, TeethFangBottom, 100%
- Mouth, TeethFangTop, 100%
- Mouth, TeethNosferatu, 30.1%
- Mouth, TeethSharpBottom, 50.5%
- Mouth, TeethSharpTop, 50.9%
- Mouth, TeethVampireBottom, 50.0%
- Mouth, TeethVampireTop, 50.0%
Head, Morphs++
- Full Head, FaceMidDepth, -86.1%
- Full Head, FaceSize, -38.9%
- Eyes, EyesDepth, 50.0%
- Eyes, EyesFoldSmooth, 20.8%
- Eyes, EleLidsBottomDefine, 80.6%
- Eyes, EyeLidsHeavyBottom, 33.3%
- Eyes, LacrimalsPinch, 67.6%
- Eyes, LacrimalsSize, -177.1%
- Eyes, LashesIrregular, 50.0%
- Eyeballs, EyesIrisSize, 50.0%
- Eyeballs, EyesPupilDialate, -100.0%
- Eyeballs, EyesPupilSlit, 100.0%
- Nose, NostrilsWidth, -50.0%
- Nose, NostrilsHoleSize, 10.4%
- Mouth, MouthCornerDepth, 75.0%
- Mouth, LipsEva, 75.3%
- Mouth, LipTopPeak, 75.0%
- Mouth, LipTopEdgeHeight, -58.0%
- Mouth, LipTopCenterHeight, 75.2%
- Mouth, LipTopEdgeCurve, -50.0%
- Mouth, LipBottomDepth, 25.2%
- Lower Face, PhiltrumSlant, -65.7%
- Lower Face, PhiltrumDepth, -119.4%
- Lower Face, JawCurve, 40.3%
- Lower Face, ChinDepth, 61.6%
- Lower Face, ChinWidth, 47.5%
Head, Faerime A4
- Brow CDI, CA4BrowsInH, 32.0%
- Brow CDI, CA4BrowsOutH1, 50.2%
- Brow CDI, CA4BrowsSpace1, 50.8%
- Cheek CDI, CA4JawH, 35.0%
- Cheek CDI, CA4JawSquare, 48.3%
- ChinThroat CDI, CA4ChinD, 26.2%
- ChinThroat CDI, CA4ChinH, 63.2%
- ChinThroat CDI, CA4ChinW, 40.3%
- Eyes CDI, CA4EyeScale1, 21.1%
- Eyes CDI, CA4EyeUShape, 65.1%
- Eyes CDI, CA4EyeUShape1, 115.0%
- Eyes CDI, CA4EyeUShape1a, -25.6%
- Eyes CDI, CA4EyeLShape2, 63.6%
- Eyes CDI, CA4EyeSpace, -51.8%
- Mouth CDI, CA4LipD, 13.1%
- Mouth CDI, CA4LipUShape, 75.6%
- Mouth CDI, CA4LipUShape2, 50.9%
- Mouth CDI, CA4LipUShape3, -51.4%
- Mouth CDI, CA4LipUShape5, 58.0%
- Mouth CDI, CA4LipLShape, -50.0%
- Mouth CDI, CA4LipLShape4, 32.6%
- Mouth CDI, CA4MouthCurve, 70.8%
- Mouth CDI, CA4MouthFoldsA, -72.7%
- Mouth CDI, CA4MouthSmall, 30.4%
- Mouth CDI, CA4MouthW, 29.6%
- Nose CDI, CA4NoseD, 35.5%
- CA4NosePointed, 14.1%
- CA4NoseSlope1, 27.3%
- CA4NoseSlope2, 24.8%
- CA4NoseUW, -50.2%
- CA4NoseMidW, -15.1%
- CA4NoseLW, 24.8%
- CA4NoseWingSlantA, -41.1%
- CA4NoseWingsUp, -56.3%
- CA4NoseWingW, 20.3%

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** Products **

Tire Tube for Vila - http://kctc.francemi.net/KCTC_Beach_2010/pack_02.htm
Ron's Waterline - http://www.daz3d.com/rons-waterline
Lantios Lights 2 - http://www.daz3d.com/lantios-lights-2
To the Sky (background) - http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?ViewProduct=69078

Scott Livingston · June 2013

Fine, go ahead make us Genesis users jealous by showing something that Genesis has never been able to do very well*: become a mermaid complete with traditional tail.** :-P (sticks-out-tongue) ;-) (winks) Though, from what I hear, we won't have to wait too much longer.

She's beautiful (well, in her own way, that is), and I love the attention to detail you put into your renders. For instance, you could have used any standard M4, but instead you customized him too, and he looks great. Excellent work--thank you so much for sharing it!

*At least not that I've seen.
**I should say that these fine characters deserve mention, despite not having the fish tail: From the Deep | Killer Shark | Kuril | Sirena | Sirano (and I might be forgetting some)

Szark · June 2013

mmalbert that is awesome.

mmalbert · June 2013

Scott-Livingston said:
Hopefully you recognize the person I'm trying to re-create, but just in case, it's Edgar Allan Poe.
Poe has such a wonderful, skewy face. That's a good likeness. His upper head could stand to be a bit more...bulbous? Not sure if that's the right word, but he has a a high, wide, and round-looking forehead. -- though the hair you're using might be hiding your Poe's forehead shape.

I'm thinking his eyes are going to be the hardest part of his features to replicate. If you can find a texture that has slightly darker skin around/under the eyes, that would probably help a lot.

Scott-Livingston said:
Fine, go ahead make us Genesis users jealous by showing something that Genesis has never been able to do very well*: become a mermaid complete with traditional tail.
Can't you use Mada's Lost Realms on Genesis? I'd think that with the figure's legs hidden, it wouldn't be hard to refit it.

She's beautiful (well, in her own way, that is), and I love the attention to detail you put into your renders. For instance, you could have used any standard M4, but instead you customized him too, and he looks great. Excellent work--thank you so much for sharing it!

She doesn't much look like Ariel. Ha! The M4 character is one of my many dial characters just hanging out in the Pose folder. This one happens to have a great nose.

Thanks for giving me an opportunity to share some of my characters!

mmalbert that is awesome.

Thank you! I was pretty happy with the way it turned out.

kyoto kid · June 2013

Scott-Livingston said:
And here's a more recent effort at Poe, using David 5 mixed with Michael 4 shape and morphs from several sets. In some ways, it looks less like him than the previous image, but I think that's mostly lighting, to be honest. I'm at the frustrating place right now--that some of you are probably familiar with--where the preview window looks almost just right, but then I click Render and I'm somewhat disappointed to see that it's not quite as close to perfect as I expected. The other thing I'm struggling with is balancing realism with indentifiability--I could easily make him more recognizable, but it would mean turning my character into a caricature rather than a realistic portrait.
Of course I'm not going to be entering my own contest, but in my mind this is informally part of the competition...everyone else's excellent work is inspiring me to push myself to see what I can accomplish.

Additional image used as a secondary reference--a slightly younger Poe

...very good. Ended up with a celeb totally by accident, still need to do a bit of refinement before I post him. I'm sure he will be very recognisable.

kyoto kid · June 2013

Scott-Livingston said:
Fine, go ahead make us Genesis users jealous by showing something that Genesis has never been able to do very well*: become a mermaid complete with traditional tail.** :-P (sticks-out-tongue) ;-) (winks) Though, from what I hear, we won't have to wait too much longer.
She's beautiful (well, in her own way, that is), and I love the attention to detail you put into your renders. For instance, you could have used any standard M4, but instead you customized him too, and he looks great. Excellent work--thank you so much for sharing it!

*At least not that I've seen.
**I should say that these fine characters deserve mention, despite not having the fish tail: From the Deep | Killer Shark | Kuril | Sirena | Sirano (and I might be forgetting some)

...love it. Shows there is still lots of llfe in the old generation figures.

here's a real stretch (NAE), a fusion of Sadie and Aiko3 I did back in 2009 in Daz 2.3 (long before there was even a figure mixer). Again the settings for this were lost on the old HD that died. Of course this would be a "easy as cake" today with Genesis.

JasmineSkunk · June 2013

Not sure where to comment because the thread I saw this image was an "entry only" thread...

....but I just have to comment on The Lizard People from the planet Amoepush by scorpio64dragon

http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/23099/

This is just awesome!! I love it. :-)

Greycat · June 2013

Beast

Here’s one from me that uses David 3 and the gorilla plus M4 morphs and a Freak 3 head morph transferred over using Gen x

David3, [ 1 ]
Gorilla, [ 0.2 ]
Bodybuilder, [ 0.5 ]
BodyBuilderDetails, [ 1 ]
BodyVolume, [ 0.3 ]
NeckSize, [ 0.2 ]
LegsLength, [ -0.1 ]
HandsThick, [ 1 ]
Navel, [ 1 ]
M4 Nipples, [ 1.5 ]
F3 HdComicHero (head), [ 1 ]
M4 EarsSize (head), [ 1 ]
M4 EarsElf (head), [ 0.8 ]
M4 ChinWidth (head), [ 2.2 ]

XaatXuun · June 2013

okay did some adjustments, and changed the hair
Still WiP, and still no lighting added
!st image is the updated one, the 2nd is the first one

Greycat · June 2013

Giant

Here’s another one using the Abominable and creature creator’s Ogre body plus again M4 and F4 morphs transferred over using Gen x.

Abominable, [ 1 ]
M4CC Ogre, [ 1 ]
M4 ChestDroop, [ 1 ]
M4CC NailsClaw, [ 1 ]
M4 Hunchback, [ 0.2 ]
M4F4 HamLimbedArms, [ 1 ]
M4F4 FootWidth, [ 0.67 ]
Nipples, [ 1 ]
Navel, [ 1 ]
NavelHorizontal, [ 1 ]
M4F4 Ogre (head), [ 0.94 ]

murgatroyd314 · June 2013

I haven't decided yet whether I'm going to enter her, but I've recently been working on a toon kid who would definitely qualify. So far, she uses morphs from Toon Amy, Satsuki, Hitomi, Kimberly, Justin, Evolution, Genesis Base, AMR's Proportions, DieTrying's 182 V4 Morphs for Genesis, and several of Thorne's Head and Body Morph Resource Kits.

Greycat · June 2013

This is Taffy, a character I created about ten years ago in Poser 4 for Vicky 3. This character has been converted a number times until the one you see in the image is genesis. If I enter, this would be my entry. Image 1 is the Vicky 3 version, image 2 is the Genesis version.

kyoto kid · June 2013

Murgatroyd said:
I haven't decided yet whether I'm going to enter her, but I've recently been working on a toon kid who would definitely qualify. So far, she uses morphs from Toon Amy, Satsuki, Hitomi, Kimberly, Justin, Evolution, Genesis Base, AMR's Proportions, DieTrying's 182 V4 Morphs for Genesis, and several of Thorne's Head and Body Morph Resource Kits.

...now she is really cute.

zawarkal · June 2013

Here is what I created when I first saw this challenge. I started an image but I'm not very happy with it so I'm not sure if I will take this any further. But... I would like any and all, the good, the bad, and the ugly, commentary on thoughts about this character...

zawarkal · June 2013

here is the image in raw form (he lost his chest and have not gone back to fix yet)

Joe Cotter · June 2013

Removed... wrong thread

Novica · June 2013

What a fun concept! When I surfed in my first impression was of a very bad encounter! I might do something with the surface to make it glisten, or add some type of interest- displacement bumps (hope I used the right term there.) I just think it would add to the "icky" factor- but you did a nice job on the ickiness!

Lissa_xyz · June 2013

Zawarkal said:
Here is what I created when I first saw this challenge. I started an image but I'm not very happy with it so I'm not sure if I will take this any further. But... I would like any and all, the good, the bad, and the ugly, commentary on thoughts about this character...

THAT'S what Genesis is missing. Extra geocrafted heads!

Laticis Imagery · June 2013

Vaskania said:
Zawarkal said:
Here is what I created when I first saw this challenge. I started an image but I'm not very happy with it so I'm not sure if I will take this any further. But... I would like any and all, the good, the bad, and the ugly, commentary on thoughts about this character...

THAT'S what Genesis is missing. Extra geocrafted heads!

Not quite GeoGrafted but works none the less :)
http://laticis.deviantart.com/art/What-the-334073040

scorpio · June 2013

JasmineSkunk said:
Not sure where to comment because the thread I saw this image was an "entry only" thread...
....but I just have to comment on The Lizard People from the planet Amoepush by scorpio64dragon

http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/23099/

This is just awesome!! I love it. :-)

Thank you

Carola O · June 2013

Have to ask.. and it's probably a stupid question... but when saving Aldrak, I have so far saved him as scene subset... I have a feeling I should probably save him as something else... not sure if it should be as character or shaping preset though?

And if I do save him as either of those, can I still do these small finetunings I am doing now and than?

Oh and a little picture with him I was doing the other day... named it Early Morning Tea as I had the thought of him recently having woken up, having gotten somewhat dressed while waiting for the tea to finish

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