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Jelisa finally made a cool gryphon from the poser lion and daz eagle. AND tossed in some hella cool textures to boot! I thought they'd look cool roosting on some cliff ledges, and thought it might be fun to try to make some ledges in Vue.
Poser 4; Vue d'Esprit 4; Photoshop 4
Gryphon: by Jelisa of Fignations of Imaginment
First up is trying to make some cliff ledges. I
figured, hey, I can make a moundy terrain and then rotate and scale it
('twisting' in Vue parlance, it's actually more like shearing), so one side
is the flat ledge, and the rest is the sloped cliff bit. That worked
mostly okay (they could be flatter on the top), so now what to do for the
rest of the cliff face? Well, I just jammed the cliffs into a gigunda
mountain. With everything having the same material, it worked marvelously.
And what good are cliff ledges, without caves to den in (especially
when it rains)? So another terrain bore is poking into the giant mountain
to make some cliffs. (Boolean subtraction group.)
The trees are copies of a bent dead tree (with new large
dead tree bark on it), with little fir trees stuck on the branches as leaves.
I just made three copies and stuck them in the cliff face.
The distant vista nonsense is one terrain, very flat, with my
'Complex Ground Cover' material on it. Then a mountain with my 'Whole
Mountain' material on it in the distance. In between, I stuck a half
ground cover, half red cliff stuff terrain.
I made a terrain and poked it up with 'fir tree' stuff,
and slapped on a dark pine material. I got fed up with trying to chart
a river though all the turned and scaled terrains, so i just faked it by
making a new blank terrain and painting a river on it. No, didn't invert
the terrain, just slapped a sticking-up river in the scene. It has simple
Distant Water material on it.
These were fairly simple to pose, except for the folding wings. I had to do a little Poser Surgery to get my new Eagle JP2 in place of the standard eagle, so they would fold better.
There is quite a collection of differnet skins for the gryphons, put together and modified from different Big Face Lion/Tiger and DAZ Eagle textures. This is a white tiger gryphon and a raven tiger gryphon, with tiger skins by Jelisa and Hawk skin by an unknown artist; plus Lyne's eagle-raven texture.
I did not pose them together, but saved them both as separate PZ3's. These I imported one at a time into Vue. Man, that new Vue 4 Poser import makes things SO easy! I love it! Vue even let me drop the gryphons onto the sideways cliff.
The gryphon's were posed on a flat ground plane, so they needed a bit of tweaking. The white gryphon's front claws stuck up over the edge of the cliff, so I rearranged the shadows and rock to rise up under them. The black gryphon's front claw was stuck into the terrain, and back paws were a bit above it. Cloned the missing talon bits, and adjusted the shadows near the hind leg (with the cloning tool).
That was it for major surgery. Oh, one of the fir trees wasn't actually on its branch, so some cloning of that spread it out to cover it. The river kind sank into the ground, so I smeared that on its way. The distant mountain was a bit dotty, so I blurred it.
Tossed on some Viking text in a sampled light orangish rock colour and blended in overlay mode.
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