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The wigs came from Denver Doll..and they were too small. But cute! This is the curly Leeke wig on Honey, a Soom Cass. Fits well and looks so cute. Since Cass' head is large, you can just imagine how big the Seian head is--definitely a size 9. But the wig Honey was wearing before, a stretchy Monique Paris, was able to be stretched out to fit on Seian's head, and the red wig she was wearing can go back on my Katrien. Here is Seian: A few months ago when I was doing more modelling, I was trying to recreate this plate of petit fours from Land o Lakes: The infamous Land of Lakes petit fours (very buttery and translucent) It did not go well. I was doing them in Poser and my attempts all ended up looking like concrete: This was one of the better ones :o So my brother and family came to visit and they BROUGHT THE PETIT FOURS..though they were from a bakery: And look, even the star garland!! I kept the garland, though we ate all the petit fours--they we...

At least for now--I messed up the frosting deco on the top (I wish I had pushed it down just a LITTLE more!) and now I have a project with Andy I have to finish..and two more covers :o. Busybusybusy! I can make the petit four translucent, but then it glows like a light bulb :p

See these beautiful things? I wanted to make them, not as baked goods , but as a 3d model. How hard could they be? They are a simple shape and last year, when I first downloaded Wings, I made a decent candle with the same kind of translucency. It turns out that it is harder than it looks--rendering "white" in 3d is really difficult for some reason. my first attempt looked like the Ark of the Covenant: I didn't worry about it because the first time you use a template, there are always strange places and things you miss. So here is the next one. A bit dry looking: Hmm, not too white either. How about some translucency and more white? Oh look, a nightlight! Dammit so much, lets try some yellow instead to tone it down-- I can't believe it's not butter. Maybe more translucency? Some Ambiance? WHOO RADIOACTIVE BUTTER!....so more fiddling and a new texture map (no 4): ...better, but still a little glowy and also not even close to the original colo...

"Hey, you forgot to post anything today!" I was busy loading up the free Petit Four model onto Renderosity, so if you are a poser user of versions 7--11, you can download it directly from Renderosity's Free Stuff.. though you might need a username? But here is the link: https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/poser-petit-four/78798 Otherwise I cleaned the house :o

It's the same exact petit four as in the last post, but it's rendered in PoserPro 2012 instead of Daz Studio. I still don't like my solution of the crumb scribbles on the upper layer of "frosting", I think I will edit the file to have that row all the same as the frosting above it. The problem was I made the map by essentially projecting a camera from the top, and the green layer stuck out just a tiny bit out from under the upper layer, so part of the texture for the green layer ended up on the upper layer. Which is dumb and I need to not do that on the next one. Here it is in Poser 11, with the new top layer texture. Looks like maybe the bump value could be turned down a little, but it sort of works. Looks a bit sticky :D