I've been looking at external renders for my Poser art, and having played around a bit with Luxrender and Reality I reached the decision that as soon as my cash flow perked up I woul go for the Octane solution. But the Smith Micro announced that they are releasing Poser 10 and all of the sudden I know where I am utting my money.

A bit annoying since I am finally able to enjoy my Poser 9, but hell, it will be worth it. And this time I am going for the pro package.

Good times are about to come rolling in.

Still finding my feet after having been gone for too long, one of the things I see popping up more now than before I accidentally dropped out are people using external renderengines.
I think this is a good thing as they give absolutely stunning results and makes me go: " Oooooh, I want to tooo" in a childlish expectant voice with a slight complaining tvinge to it.

However this has opened a whole new can of what ifs...

The big dust up is whether to choos Octane or Luxrender.

Both look good.

So I ask you my friends, in you experience and opinion, which is the better for you, or should I stick to good ol' firefly.

Finally I got my new PC in house. Aside from som small Hickups, and there always has to be Hickups (like loosing my Intous pen), I am officially back. And damn that feels good.

Kinda sums up my 2012. At least here.

I will be better next year.

This is turning out to be a great month. My tax-money are in, so a new PC is in the pipeline. So I will not be long gone now!

Jupp, groan.

Moving house, no PC capable of doing any art what so ever, and shitloads of inspiration. Right now, life sucks.

Not the most active participant here right now, but I am still alive and will be back suddenly.

Love
K

I have a confession to make.

I hated the end of the Mass Effect saga. I loved ME 1 and 2. And my expectations where through the roof for ME III. An there shouldn't be spoilers here, but if you fear them, Stop! My journal, my rules.

Mass Effect III. I've been waiting for this. And finally it is here.
So I play the hell out of it. I make though choices, play Shepard as an extension of my self, end up a bit more paragon than renegade. And in the end... it comes down to nothing. Really. I can not percieve how any of the choices I made, in the end makes a difference.

This is a Bioware game. I expected more.

And I know it is politcally inccorect to say so. I had more fun playing Syndicate.

Maybe it was my expectations.
Maybe it was that this is the first game I have committed genocide in.
Maybe it was the way that I found weapon that totally made all the other powers superflous.

I was left with a "so what?" feeling as the endgame became apperant.

Yes there were dramatic and beautiful moments.
Yes there were some tricky choices to make.

But in the end. Don't say my choices matters, when in the end they don't

It seemed cheap. It felt cheap.

And I've already traded it back in.

I am cursed with the mother of all headcolds. Sorry for the lack of activity. Will be back once the mucus demons let me be.

I've been on an involuntary break from rendereing and painting. But I have thought a lot about how I work, and taken the time to read quite a few tutorials. And some of it has really rubbed off. So I am back with a vengance, and it is really fun to eatch the results of the little extra effort these tutorials taught me.

Me*{[work/training+(sleep^-1)*women^4][-imagination+(Skyrim+DeusEx+Arkhamasylum)^time]/[hours*i(-food)+(KFMWC2011Spain+IDPCertification)]+ X^ZY-winter/newappartmentsearch}=Life

In other words. Life is hectic, which is why I am so inactive right now. Will suddenly be back stronger.

Love.
K

Ages ago I submitted my image Subject 17 to Smith Micro for their poser gallery.

And when I swung by to upgrad to poser 9 lo and behold, there it was. Among some unbelivable art, by who's who on my watchlist.
That stunned me a bit.
And then, for kicks I watched the demo reel The Faces of Poser.
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And would you know, subject 17 had found his way in there aswell.

When my Poser journey began I never expected this.

An now that I got Poser 9 and am learning how to adapt my old stone age computer to handle all these wonderful new toys I can't wait to see where my journey takes me.

Good times.

I had to ask my self that question the other day when I chucked a render that I had waited for close to 16 hours, because the image didn't work. It was  a good render, the skin turned nice, even better after I postworkded it. The pose was ok, but all in all, something about the final image didn't gel. So I chucked it in the waste bin. And then it struck me.

It didn't work because there was no real thought behind it. It was "just an image".

So from there the natural question was "so you think you're an artist now?"

Or rather " So just because you sold to prints and got your second DD, you all of a sudden have ot have a deeper meaning behind every one of your images. Have you gotten all artsy-fartsy on me now?"

And the answer is yes, well not quite, but a bit.

I like there to be a sentiment, an emotion behind my images. The hint of a story or a mood. Does that define as an artist?
Who cares?
I do demand a lot of myself. But that doesn't mean my every image has to be deep and meaningful

Like Bodywork.


A character that sprung out of Machines of Loving Graces song with the same title.
But an image that is more fun, than it was anything else.

I am still reeling. I woke up saturday and noticed one of my friends had congratulated me for something. And then I saw the DD. And then my inbox exploded.

And it is a kick. Make no mistake, a Daily Deviation feels damn good. It is an honor and recognition in a field filled with so much talent and so many great artist. But most of all it is an ego boost from hell. I was floating on a cloud all weekend.

And my inbox grew. Currently Dead not Dead has 742 faves and over 12000 views. For a hobby artist from Norway, the great country of "Thous shalt not excel, and if thou does then shut up about it" (unless it is wintersports) that is beyond cool. And it makes one think.
If one subtracts the views of my two DDs (notice how jaded that sounds ) my work has still been watched, looked at and appricated over a 100 000 times. That is a pretty big audience.
For a hobby artist.
That is not supposed to have any pretentions.

For make no mistake, I am utterly, genuinely grateful for that. I never expected it.

And I want to thank you for each and every one.

Just like I'd like to thank everyone that has faved any of my images the last few days. I haven't a chance to go over and thank each of you personally, which I'd like to do. And to all my new watchers, I'll get around to you.

Now deviation 200 is out there.


It is time to look back at the past two years. And admit:

I love having my gallery here at DA.

I love it when ever someone faves or looks at one of my images.

I am grateful whenever someone comments.

I might be doing this for myself, but it really really feels good knowing you can touch someone else.

So thank you all.

For letting me be a little unNorwegian.

Be seeing you for the next 100.

I've just had an involuntary break from rendering and photoshopping. That is life. But the funny thing is that when I then found my way back infront of the computer again, and my muse became unleashed. Well she had all this energy stored up, and I noticed a subtle change in my approach to my images. Where I before would be impatient to get to the end result, I wanted the images out of my brain and into pixels so bad I forgot to enjoy the road. Don't get me wrong, there were hours of planning, thinking, tweaking and working, but they were all there as a means to an end.

Now I realize that the end will come. And that the journey there really is the point.

So now everything got interesting.



Again.

I've been lost in the real world for a while. The old all work and no play routine. But now I am back.

To all the people who have faved one or more of my images during this unfortunate hiatus, thank you. From the bottom of my heart. I'd like to thank you all personally, but after having thanked about 40 / 50 or so of you devart is going to think I am spamming. And we wouldn't want that now would we.
So I'll use the simple solution and just thank you here.

And since I am back. Enjoy my latest piece.

Sometimes life gets the better of you. Sneaks up and dumps a shitload of stress on your head. And to me, that just seems to fuel my creative process. Cause the less time I have, the more images form in my mind and grapple their way to the front of conciousness.
So when I on the spur of the moment decide to create an image, consequences be dammed, waiting 19 hours and 57 minutes for it to finish render is pure agony. So I seriously need to get a better PC.
The problem is that I am spending my PC money on new ink.

Oh well. Priorities I guess.

So until I finally get organaized enough, and control my impulses better, long render times will be just another chokepoint.

It seems I have sold my second print. Wow. It isn't like I can break out the champagne, so far I've made like 5 dollars, but hey. Someone paid money to own one of my images. And it happend for the second time.

And that is so unbelivably wicked I might just break out the champagne anyhoo.

I've tried to thank everyone who faved, watched or comment my pictures personally. I feel it the least I can do to show how much I appricate that. But as of late my internett time has been random, and brutally brief. Heck, I havn't had time to update this journal since my birthday, which was ages ago (that's what it feels like at least).

So right now I have over a 131 feedback messages, and I really whish I had the time to say thank you to everyone of them. But I don't, so I have to cheat and use this journal to do so.

Thank you all for faving my images, looking at them and liking them. It is a great motivational boost for me. So I am really really sorry that I havn't been able to thank you personally. Hopefully I'll get back in the groove soon.

love

- K