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Patiently waiting for the next installment of Love Great and Small. No pressure, just sayin'... or more like, askin'...
I second that! But I'm guessing that @SapphireBlue, the mom, is rather busy this time of year.
I can certainly appreciate the time crunch, and we probably were a bit spoiled with 7-9 in sequence renders giving us so much interesting and involving story moments.
I'm sure people would enjoy a slow trickle of one render at a time too, at her convenience.
FirstBastion Oh!!! I'm so sorry!
I didn't see this at all till today when I finally went over the notifications. They've been swamped with the "Render your buys" thread entries for a while... Lol. But I look at the new renders in the thread everyday, so I totally forgot to check the notifications for a month since things got a bit busy...
(EDIT: And then too, it only showed David's post and neither of yours - Oh dear, I don't think these notifications are working properly still. I have no idea what I else I might be missing... 
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But I just appreciate it sooo much that you're enjoying the series enough to ask about the next installment. THANK YOU!!!
I have worked out most of my scene list on paper for the last two parts for "Love great and small" and bought all the things I didn't yet have for them, but I have yet to start rendering part 3... It's what I'm hoping to do in January. Nov/Dec saw me distracted by 2 other projects...
But part 3 and 4 are definitely happening.
You know, you gave me an important kick in the rear. I'm just going make a start anyway this weekend. That's always the hardest part - then it's easier going! Thank you!
David R
It's been busy for sure, also thanks to a caravan of visiting winter viruses, but I'm also a little scatterbrained and totally distracted by too many projects (as you well know haha). 
Darn it, it's a not a good combination... Lol.
So looking forward to it, Blue!
I've been neglecting this thread, even though I always want to get back to it. I like following the Art Studio threads to see everyone's artist journeys. They're also such a nice way to find inspiration, work through some ideas 'in public' and just share. So I guess that's me persuading myself to use this space more...
I'm slowly working on several projects, the main one right now the little visual fairytale "Love Great and Small". But then I do get distracted from time to time... My distraction for the past two weeks has been this song and music video...
"Leap of Faith" is a gentle reflection on being caught in grief and slowly stepping back into life. I wrote and produced it for a music challenge. (Lyrics are here: https://www.ladyincognita.com/leapoffaith)
The renders for the video feature The Row House's beautiful and magical Winter Caribou Headdress, which I had wanted to use in a winter setting like this since it came out in the store. When I started work on the song, the visual ideas followed quickly and I got to put it to use in this. The narrative features a cervitaur (a deer-type centaur) in her woods, her inner landscape. She's locked up in her grief, and the narrative follows her until she takes a leap out of her frozen state of grief back into life.
I put a few of the renders in the gallery:
SapphireBlue,
Nicely done! The render is lovely. It certainly complements the music and the theme, and it makes me wonder what comes next of her promise "... to take a leap of faith / take a leap of faith."
Cheers!
One thing about your music, it gets better the more you listen to it. Honestly, I listen to your songs over and over and each time I pick up on some new aspect I hadn't seen before.
Thank you so much csaa!! I appreciate it very much!
I think now that she has taken a leap out of her 'frozen state of grief' back into 'life', she's going to take it one step at a time. Her woods are vibrant and alive, and so again is she. 
Oh my gosh, you're going to make me cry...
Thank you so much, David. It really means a lot to know that a song expresses and communicates something well enough that it was worth someone's time and attention, and even better, that it was enough to make someone want to listen to it again (and again).
Art communicates to us as we create it, then we hope it can speak to others too, whether it's just a feeling or an experience or an idea. So thank you for sharing this.
I've been working on and off on a little 'fairy tale' visual story "Love Great and Small" aka "The Princess and the Giant" since last October, inspired by a princess render I did for the "Render your buys" thread in the Commons. Here are the previous Part 1 and Part 2. (There will be a total of 5 parts at this point.)
Just finished Part 3 and it's up in the gallery as a sequence of about 12 renders. The story is just something light and sweet. I have to thank FirstBastion for giving me the push to get the next part out sooner than later. It's definitely been a bit of work as the scenes take a fair amount of time for me... Hope it's enjoyable!
Part 3: Love Great and Small (Gallery Link)
Awesome, I am happy you were able to find the time to continue creating this lovely story SapphireBlue. It really is a modern fairytale that deserves to be told from your unique prespective and impeccably detailed art. The fact that we can follow the story without a word of dialogue is a testament to your talent as a visual storyteller. When it is all done, you may want to consider assembling it at KDP, and publish it on Amazon as a print-on-demand children's book.
These two characters are so appealing. You want them to live happily ever after!
FirstBastion, thank you so much! Those are such lovely compliments - it made my day to read this!
I grew up loving beautifully illustrated fairytale books, and used to draw from them all the time. Even though I love to write, sometimes words just get in the way, and there's also my ever shrinking attention span. So I'm really taken by the idea of telling little visual stories without words, and more often then not, paired with a song or soundtrack. Keeping them short makes them more manageble and also makes it possible to get to the next idea in a long list! And DAZ and all the PA created items are just wonderful and magical to make this possible.
I was definitely thinking of putting it up on KDP in digital format at the end. I didn't think of a print version since I expected pricing to be pretty steep, but I took a quick look and it seems more reasonable than I remembered. Thanks for the suggestion!
And sorry for this late reply. I put everything up, then went on holiday. On my return, I forgot to visit this space altogether.
Part 4 should be coming along soon. I had mostly finished it before I finished part 3. The final part 5 might take me a little bit of time though...
Aw, thank you! I think they're rather terribly cute, I'll admit.
And they've taken up residence in my mind, driving me nuts when I'm working on their story. They'll get up to a million things and think a million thoughts, but I can only capture a bit. Thankfully I do get a break, because I work with other characters and things (who then proceed to take over my mind). But in your case, Charlotte and Kurt probably never leave the premises (your head)! 
Now you know how it feels!
Yes, Charlotte and Kurt live rent-free in my head, but they're perfectly welcome.
Right there with you. Until the story is told, the possibilities churn.
Sometimes, we just want to make it to "the end", so we can move on, and remember our characters fondly.
Here's a gothic romance story I finished up in DAZ this month as a music video - it's about 20 renders. I wrote and produced the 'gothic symphonic metal' song at the end of last year for a metal challenge, and as I worked on it I was inspired by the Render Your Buys All Time thread to try out some new things. My mind landed on Sickleyield's Spiderfolk and immediately this story started taking shape.
The project sat on the back burner for a while, and I finally got round to finishing it up and tidying the mix for my first foray into metal music. My pop sensibility definitely softens my approach to this genre. However, I immediately realized how much this style of music and storytelling also resonates with me, so my mind's already latched onto some future goth metal and goth story ideas.
The story is both as-is and symbolic, with several ways of interpretting it. Story blurb: Lovelorn Lady Spider welcomes starry-eyed visitors to her cave with all the love in her heart. She is however unaware that it is her powerful pheromones that draw them near, drive their infatuation, and ultimately lead to...
Momentum (Gothic romance set to gothic symphonic metal)
Here are some captures that I just shared in the gallery as well. The main characters are tweaked versions of two Mousso characters. They were lovely to work with and very expressive. Faveral's MICK bundle elements helped populate the cave and really have that gothic look. I used various things for webs within the DAZ renders as a foundation, but the main work came from using Ron's Spider Webs and Cobwebs brushes in post.
Like most of your work, I need to go back several times to pick up on all the details, ideas and moods. But this one is tough. You cooked up quite a little nightmare!
That's a lovely compliment. If anything I make has anything meaningful/interesting to communicate, that's a big deal to me. Thank you David!
Yeah, this one's tough. Too many conflicting emotions, painful, messy. But so is real life.
I'm looking forward to your next chapter. I know it takes a lot of time to make, but I want to know what happens next?! All the way till the end...
I'm terrible with suspense!
Here's part 4 of my little 'fairy tale' visual story "Love Great and Small" aka "The Princess and the Giant". I had mostly finished this before part 3, since they were originally meant to be just one big chapter. But it felt too unwieldy and made more sense separately as I worked out the ideas.
In this part, we catch the tiny princess and the giant on some of their outside adventures. Essentially part 3 and 4 take a few quick peeks into their lives as they spend time together over the course of some weeks or maybe a little more. Just a simple, light and sweet story.
Here are the previous parts: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. (There will be a total of 5 parts at this point.)
Part 4: Love Great and Small (Gallery Link)
So appropriate that you have her riding the dog side-saddle. And the conservative beach wear makes perfect sense for a princess of her stature. It's all the small details that make this such a fun series to experience. You took the time, you thought it through, and you made characters we as the audience can care about. Bravo! Another excellent chapter.
Every page makes me smile, but I wanna know where'd they get that tiny life jacket?
FirstBastion Thank you so much!!
And thank you for noticing those details. 
You're very right. The princess was a competent horsewoman in her world, and side-saddle is it for her. She's smart, curious and courageous and has taken a lot in stride, reading up slowly on the modern English language, world history and technological mysteries, while also watching plenty of 'magical' tv to wrap her mind around the world she finds herself in. But it's still been a task to get used to pants and skirts that show *gasp* her knees! She was probably beet-red for quite a bit in her romper for the beach trip, but felt mightily more decorous after spying all the people in the distance wearing less than half of what she was... 
There are so many scenes I would have enjoyed working on, but would be too much for the flow of the story. I love this visual story format, but I do think a real live action would be so much fun too, especially to hear her more old-fashioned style of speech that cracks our guy up though he tries to be polite, and all the life hacks our guy comes up with for the tiny princess in a giant world. 
David R That's so sweet, thank you !
I've been enjoying too many of those 'makes me smile, makes me laugh, makes me snort' scenes in my head. Too much work to do them all. 
As for the tiny life jacket.... ETSY!!
Regular doll life jackets are all plastic, BUT it would seem some moms on Etsy made relatively buoyant ones for their daughters' 18" American Dolls, to get their daughters to wear theirs without complaint. These were too big initially for the princess, but our guy did some MacGyvering and worked on a set and they tested it out in the sink. He does like to go out kayaking frequently and his dog "Prince" has already been outfitted with a nice doggie life jacket. The tiny princess can only do some basic swimming, so our guy decided to be extra cautious on their early trips and tie an elastic cord from his vest to hers. He used to do that for Prince when Prince was still a puppy. NOBODY will notice it in the render, but the cord is there and still a little visible from the angle I took the shot in - at his belt near the zipper... I just couldn't forgo that detail... 