Hey all! I feel really bad about falling behind in the discussion here on the thread – it’s a haven from the stresses of RL for me, thanks to all of you. So, I am reading it over again while responding to try to make sure I didn’t miss anything important or (even worse) anything fun!
@MaggieMarley thanks so much for uploading the three new vampires, Damien, Cleo and Ernest. I have kidnapped them all :p.
I am at the photo shoot stage with Edward, but I have been unhappy with my ability to get the aliens (Alek specifically, but also, I was looking at Mathilde) the way I envision them. The biggest problem I have had so far is that the skin tones available for them are disappointing. I have finally found a set of skintones that I think I’ll be happy with, but they were not Alien enabled, so I have to get them into SFS to see if I can enable these tones for aliens before I can effectively use them. In the interim, I put aside Alek and I am working with Ernest instead – so Edward and Ernest (I will probably age him up for the shoot when I am ready). A little later, maybe today or tomorrow, I will try to get the Edward prelims up. While working with Ezra and Dakota, I came across some poses that I love for Edward, and I shot some of those already. I think you’re going to like them too.
Thanks for the kind words about Heath, he certainly agrees with you, but what can you expect from a guy whose only parent is named “Fox”. :) I was reading your discussion about the wedding dress and the veils in particular (all this time and I never actually looked for bridal veils – thanks to you and @paradiseplanet for the inspiration – it’s now on my list). And I agree with you, @paradiseplanet and @squirrelwithacup about guys who aren’t necessarily hyper macho – pretty bois spin my wheels!!. :dizzy:
Thanks for the compliments on the sparring shoot and Dakota and Ezra. To answer the question about the sparring shots. They are all in-game footage. I didn’t use any poses for those shots. I was hoping when I was cropping them that I cut out the majority of little bats flying around and smoke and all that, but there was a lot of it that’s still left in the cuts. While attempting a shoot between my Hideaki and Dakota, I found Hideaki’s vamp form to be a complete disaster and I couldn’t get the little bats out of most of the shots by cropping them or get any really good shots through the smoke generated by the battle which is why the shoot didn’t make the cut. I did download some fighting poses thinking that I might try using them if I couldn’t get any good in-game shots, but none of them were vampire fighting poses and most of them were dependent on weaponry which the vamps don’t need to fight – so I didn’t end up using any poses for these shots. I have used upward of two dozen pose packs for the other shots that I haven’t put up yet (the individual and couple shots), but I am not sure what will make it onto the boards and what will hit the cutting room floor so to speak, and a liberal spattering of in-game candids are also on the table for those posts.
Also, fun trivia, the kiss at the end of the Dakota vs Ezra battle is an in-game “passionate kiss” broken down into close to a dozen shots actually – only three of which made the cut, but I think they work. ;) These two were so flirty while sparring I didn’t think they would ever start the spar sequence, especially where I wanted them to for the shoot, but right after the battle was over Dakota just grabbed Ezra for the passionate kiss, and I was in shot-catching mode – so what the heck. They took care of business when the fighting was done without any prompting from me. :naughty:
