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I needed a splash pic for my Eagle Expansion Pack I, and I thought I'd try to do another Pursuit theme, but with a rabbit and hawk rather than antelope and cheetah.
Poser 4, Vue d'Esprit 4, Photoshop 4
Rabbit:
Dedicated
Digital
Northern Goshawk: DAZ
Eagle and my Eagle
Expansion Pack 1
I started with the ground plane, and my Complex Ground Cover material. I tossed in some Dry Weeds and I had this bowed over grass stems deal I had made in 'Shop, to try to get some directional grasses going. Don't know as they were too successful. The left midground grass has that material on it, and the right foreground are regular dry weeds. Both sets are skewed sidewise a bit, in an attempt to get the grass kinda blowing over, or looking faster, or SOMEthing.
Then I threw in a mountain with my Whole Mountain material on it, and a copy, way back in the back. Two really huge Rural Maples are back there somewhere, and I also made a wall of dried grass (weeds) of duplicated plants.
I threw in some big spheres with sand/dust materials on them. Positioned them around. I made them thinner than the dust in "Pursuit." Yes, this is pretty much thrown together, but with some forethought and all.
Then I imported the PZ3's for the figures. Oh, and the atmosphere is that air show thing, or passing cloud front or some such.
It was a toss up between the DD rabbit and the 9Lives Cat rabbit/hare. The 9lives was a bit sleeker and more expressive, but I didn't have a decent texture. The DD rabbit had one, so I went with that plump bunny. I did try to thin it out a bit with the scaling and a magnet. Vue imported the magnet very well. Although I had to delete the geometries for the magnet and the base and sphere.
Aside from the weeks of work on textures, morphing, jointing, etc the EXP1 birds, the Goshawk is just loaded up and posed. I had to do it twice; the first time I didn't have the lower wing at a good angle. This came out pretty much looking like my sketch.
Just bits and pieces. I un-fluffed the rabbit by using the furry brushes to smear the background over the edge, rather than vice versa. Also where the texture was flat, or stretched across the back, chest, and head, I cloned some fur bits. I painted in some more whiskers, and fixed the black hole eye.
The hawk isn't done up much. I had to clone in two feathers at the corner of the lower wing, and un-ruffle some of the wing feather edges. There's a bit of a seam at the front edge of the wings that some judicious smearing fixed.
And then there's hairy brushed grass on the ground plane.
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