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He didn’t bring me roses

DAZ Studio, postwork in Photoshop. Click to enlarge.

All a snake-woman wants is a little romance. Is that too much to ask?

Fairy du Jour: Riverthorn

Riverthorn wasn’t like others of her kind. Where other fairies hid among the tangled roots and brambles of the forest deep, she preferred the open spaces of the fields and hills. Where they danced in the early morning sunlight, she danced ‘neath the glowing moon. Where the rest of the fairies gathered flowers bathed in dew, she counted stars and found names for every one of them. That was to be her downfall.

Her feykin were unconcerned, for precious little does concern these tiny folk. Worry is as alien to their nature as flight is to a dwarf. Only her long-time friend and lover Thistledawn showed any care at all about her actions, she brushed him aside as casually as a speck of dust on a rose petal. He didn’t understand what she saw in the stars, and he would never hear what she heard.

When Riverthorn looked up into the night sky, she saw fairies. Thousands, millions of them glowing and playing and singing to her, begging her to join them in their infinite dance through the cosmos. Each point of light was carried on tiny gossamer wings, and every one whispering to her in the chill moonlit air. They begged her to send them gifts in return for sharing their secrets, and each trade grew larger than the last – a petal, a root, a mouse, a child.

Riverthorn didn’t hesitate.

And that, ultimately, was her true downfall.

Dirty little secret: The stars aren’t fairies. But they are callous, malicious and possess more than enough infinite cold cunning to trick a foolish fairy into doing their bidding. Riverthorn sometimes sees the tentacles writhing at the edge of her dreams, and tries to pass them off as blades of grass blowing silently in the wind of the void. One day, she hopes, the star fairies will let her run through the grass too.

Notes: Enid Blyton meets HP Lovecraft. I think I’m in love.

Riverthorn, Chaotic Evil Female Fairy Star Pact Warlock-3

Str 10, Con 14, Dex 14, Int 13, Wis 11, Cha 18
HP 36, Bloodied 18, Surges 9×8/day, Speed 2 Fly 5
AC 16 (Sylvan Leather +1), Fort 14, Ref 15, Will 17, Init +3

Aerie Twinkle/w, Warlock’s Curse/w, Dire Radiance/w, Eldritch Blast/w , Frigid Darkness/e, Shadow Veil/e, Witchfire/e, Dread Star/d

Athletics +3, Acrobatics +5, Arcana +7, Bluff +10, History +7, Insight +6, Stealth +11
Size:Tiny, Buzzing Flight, Fey Origin, Aerie Weapons, Ritual Caster, Skill Training (Stealth), Prime Shot, Shadow Walk

Bloodcurse Rod +1, Amulet of Mental Resolve +1

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Leather clad bikini barbarian babe number 257

DAZ Studio, no postwork. You know the rest.

Also known as Sharon.

The NSFW Halfling Barbarian

DAZ Studio, no postwork. Click to enlarge. Go on. You know you want to.

I wasn’t going to post this until tomorrow, but @simplychrista made me post it early :D

Love how this one turned out, especially the expression. Priceless.

EDIT: And here’s Christa’s version!

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Eternity is a very long time

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When the spotlight falls, the dance begins

Just testing DAZ Studio 3’s Volumetric Lighting, don’t mind me. If nothing else, it’s a good excuse to post a render of a gorgeous elven ranger who is armed to the teeth. Go on. Count those swords. I’ll wait.

Using the Volumetric Lighting is easy -

  1. Add a spotlight (Create->New Spotlight). In thise case I’ve set it to Y=300 and pointing directly down (X Rotate = -90)
  2. Make sure it’s selected in the Scene tab then head into DAZ Built-in Content->Shaders->Uber->UberVolume
  3. Double-click Parent Cone to Light
  4. In the Scene tab, expand the Spotlight and select Spotlight 1 Volume then, in your Surfaces tab (you do have it open, don’t you?) make sure that Spotlight 1 Volume is also selected. As with any Shader effect, you need to have both the object and it’s material selected, remember
  5. Back in the Content tab, double-click Cloud, Dust or Smoke and fine-tune the effect in your Surfaces tab to taste
  6. Finally, expand the Volume to cover the entire scene (or as much as you need) in the Paramaters tab by adjusting Z Scale. For this scene I set it to 300% so that the smoke effect went all the way down to the floor

That might sound complex, but it’s not – it’s just harder to explain that it is to do. Try it and see.

There’s lots of potential to Volumetric Lighting – from fog effects to light spilling out of dusty warehouse windows, from adding a subtle depth to a romantinc render to over-the-top rock-god ground smoke MTV video. And much, much more.

Yeah. Tis good. Expect to see more!

EDIT: For more information about UberVolume, here’s the instruction manual online.

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Under an Iconic Moon

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DAZ Studio, no postwork, Clickee biggee.

I would totally buy a Fighting Fantasy gamebook with this on the cover.

Just sayin’.

The Gate

thegate

The dance of blades

kunoichi_twfranger

Not all Two-weapon fighting Rangers are created equal.

Elven Gothic

elvengothic