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Seeing a lot of new folks trying out Poser and other 3D apps, I approached Dag recently about using one of his posts as the subject of a brief tutorial on how to use Poser to create tickling art. You all remember his image:
Original Image Here. I thought it was a great first attempt at using Poser and really liked the constructive criticism he received.
I took this and made a full Poser tutorial for beginners out of it and wanted to post it here for any budding artists. Since it does include the final render as well, it belongs here as well as in the "How To" forum, which is much less often browsed.
The tutorial is also available here:
Virtual Realms Poser Tutorial
Without further ado, the tutorial:
Using Poser to Create Tickling Art.
By Brendan M Baker,
Lead Artist / Owner, VirtualRealms.com
http://www.VirtualRealms.com
In the interest of adding to the community of artists, user Dag has let me use one of his first 3D art attempts to show folks how to do a really great scene in a very short time and with very little work.
Since I can't go around handing out pencils, paintbrushes and paper to folks, this is about the only way I can get more artists into the community. A current copy of Poser is roughly $200 (I think) and you can easily get started with free models and textures at first.
You all remember the original piece:
http://www.ctchutes.com/tutorial/Original.jpg
1) The Models:
First, open Poser and click the Figures tab:
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image1.jpg
Drop two Victoria 4's onto the canvas:
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image2.jpg
Name them Ler and Lee to keep track of them.
2) Skin Textures:
You will need to add skin textures to them now, so click the Pose tab:
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image3.jpg
Select a figure and add skin textures, makeup, lip color, etc (you do this by double clicking on the icons of the textures you want)... do a face injection, but NOT a full body or just body injection. Changing the body shape will make the clothes not fit correctly. There is a way to deal with this, but this is a beginners guide. Full body injections are the norm, just not for this tutorial.
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image4.jpg
Select another V4 skin and apply it to the other figure:
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image5.jpg
You now have two fully textured and facially injected V4 models. The facial injections assures us that we are not working with twins (unless you are into that... in that case, don't do facial morphs).
3) Hair:
There are 2 kinds of hair in Poser, Hair from the Hair tab which is really a prop (explain that later), and hair from the Figures tab that has to be conformed (again... in a bit).
For our Lee, we will use Hair from the Hair tab, one of my favorites, Chocolate hair.
Since I am applying it from the Hair tab, I simply select the Lee and double click on the hair icon I want to add and it is "glued" to her as a prop. It will follow her around in any pose she takes. No further action is needed on your part:
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image6.jpg
Our Ler is going to be using Hair from the Figures tab. I forgot to take a screen of it, but if you have any V4 hair installed that is in the figures tab, select one and double click it. You needn't worry about selecting the Ler first as this is a conforming hair. This means you double click the hair and make sure it is the active object. Then click Figure -> Conform to... and a dialog will come up:
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image7.jpg
Select the character you want the conforming hair to and click OK. That hair is now also bound to the character, but in a much more tightly coupled way than prop hair. Again, that is a more advanced concept you will discover along the way.
4) Clothing:
Almost all clothing is conforming. There is a type called dynamic clothing, where you "drape" the cloth over the character letting gravity conform it to the character. That is a little ways further along for a beginner, but not overly hard either.
Going to my Figures tab, I open up a V4 clothing set I like, a little something from Roogna:
I put my Ler in a bra and panty set and my lee in a baby doll:
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image8.jpg
This is done the same way conforming hair was. double click the bra, make sure it is active, Figure -> Conform to... (Ler)
Do this with the panty and baby doll.
To spice things up, I will add some sexy boots to our Ler:
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image9.jpg
5) Clothing textures:
Right now, we have two relatively hot chicks wearing some very bland clothes. Lets add some colors and textures:
Click the Pose tab and look for any textures for the outfit you selected. Some outfits come automatically colored and there are no other choices. In this case, I can make the Ler all in red and the Lee in pink.
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image10.jpg
To do this, you simply select the bra, and double click the bra icon in the color you want.
The same goes for the panties and baby doll.
(As an aside, you also texture hair this way. Almost all hair has a great variety of textures included with it.)
And here is the tab to texture the boots. I really don't like red boots so I am going to choose black:
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image11.jpg
6) Furniture:
Furniture is pretty much equally distributed between the Figures tab (you don't conform furniture though) and the Props tab (Prop furniture can be parented to a figure and will move with that figure).
Let's get one of my favorite Racks:
I double click the rack icon from my Props tab and it appears on screen.
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image12.jpg
(nice rack, eh?)
7) Figure Posing:
The most important thing about figure posing is remembering to turn off Inverse Kinematics. That is a fancy term for something that is useful about 5% of the time and is turned on by default for your Characters. Select the character and click Figure -> Use Inverse Kinematics and you will see 4 entries. Make sure all 4 are unchecked. Again, this is a beginners tutorial. If you want to learn more about that feature, there are many, many forums to learn about that in.
Now, if all the kinematics are turned off, we can proceed.
I am going to get my Ler onto that rack first.
Being lazy, I am going to find a pre saved pose that is very close to what I want her to be in. I select my Pose tab and open up one of my bondage pose libraries:
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image13.jpg
I get a basic, arms together, legs apart bondage position which is about as close as I am going to get to fit that rack. The rest I do by hand.
Moving the Ler out of the way, I select the Lee and select the Rotate transformations on the left dials to get her on her back, then the positioning ones to get her properly placed.
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image14.jpg
To get the feet through the holes, select her thighs and use the Bend and Side transformations until the legs poke through as they should.
The hands, being part of a rack need some rope and I have an ancient rope prop for V3 that will work:
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image15.jpg
These ropes are parented to whoever is selected when I double click them, so I know they will stay with my Lee however I move her arms.
Now for our Ler:
Again, find a pose that is similar to one you like:
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image17.jpg
And make subtle changes to it to make it work. Don't try posing from a pure zero pose, that could take hours!! I am, by nature a very, very lazy man.
8) Expressions:
People torturing others or being tortured themselves seldom do so with a poker face. Expressions are what really make your work start to stand out.
Click the Expressions tab and select our Ler. Since she is tickling a friend, let's give her a playful grin:
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image18.jpg
I did this by selecting the Ler and double clicking the expression I wanted.
Our poor Lee should be anything but smirking, so let's try this out:
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image19.jpg
That is much more appropriate to a lady being tickled I think.
9) Eyes:
This is the one thing that most people neglect and besides lighting, it is the most important. If our Lee was looking off into the distance with a vacant stare, she wouldn't give us the proper feeling of sheer focus on those helpless feet of hers.
Select Poses, and find your library of V4 eye poses and double click Down, the most down you have. She is, after all, on the rack, having her feet tickled. She now looks like she is part of the scene. It really is amazing how eye position is so important to make a scene come alive:
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image20.jpg
10) Environment:
This is really one of the last steps, you don't want walls getting in the way of your view while you are posing, so I always leave the room itself for last. I am going to go to my Props tab, but many rooms are also in the Figures tab. I will select one of my favorite dungeons which is perfect for this rack and double click the icon for the room, stool, and torch.
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image21.jpg
11) Little "Extras:
If you want your scenes to really get second looks ad little details to it. In this case, I think our Lee should have a nice pair of sexy pumps on, well, one of them actually, the other having been take off by our Ler (the viewer will assume):
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image22.jpg
I just grabbed some fuck me pumps from my V4 Figures library and conformed the right pump, but left the other one un conformed and placed it on the rack. Now I am getting my viewer involved. A story is forming in their mind. When did that shoe come off? Did the Ler take it off or did the Lee kick it off? Get your viewers involved.
Normally I would add a few more things, like a vase full of feathers and such, but again, tutorial....
Give the pumps a nice shade of red via the Pose tab. Note how this pose also lets you pose V4's feet to look proper in her heels. Use this after you have everything else done with your figure to get the heels looking right on her feet.
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image23.jpg
12) Lighting:
I normally render in VUE, so I am done at that last step. I typically export my scene into VUE for rendering as it has a much higher quality rendering engine. Since you will be using poser for now, you have to add some decent lighting.
Click the Lights tab and find a set you like. Try a few. You just double click them, no need to have anything selected or do any conforming. When you find one you like, you are done with lighting.
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image24.jpg
Make any last minute adjustments and SAVE YOUR WORK before rendering:
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image25.jpg
Hit Control R and watch your scene come alive:
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Result.jpg
Original Image Here. I thought it was a great first attempt at using Poser and really liked the constructive criticism he received.
I took this and made a full Poser tutorial for beginners out of it and wanted to post it here for any budding artists. Since it does include the final render as well, it belongs here as well as in the "How To" forum, which is much less often browsed.
The tutorial is also available here:
Virtual Realms Poser Tutorial
Without further ado, the tutorial:
Using Poser to Create Tickling Art.
By Brendan M Baker,
Lead Artist / Owner, VirtualRealms.com
http://www.VirtualRealms.com
In the interest of adding to the community of artists, user Dag has let me use one of his first 3D art attempts to show folks how to do a really great scene in a very short time and with very little work.
Since I can't go around handing out pencils, paintbrushes and paper to folks, this is about the only way I can get more artists into the community. A current copy of Poser is roughly $200 (I think) and you can easily get started with free models and textures at first.
You all remember the original piece:
http://www.ctchutes.com/tutorial/Original.jpg
1) The Models:
First, open Poser and click the Figures tab:
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image1.jpg
Drop two Victoria 4's onto the canvas:
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image2.jpg
Name them Ler and Lee to keep track of them.
2) Skin Textures:
You will need to add skin textures to them now, so click the Pose tab:
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image3.jpg
Select a figure and add skin textures, makeup, lip color, etc (you do this by double clicking on the icons of the textures you want)... do a face injection, but NOT a full body or just body injection. Changing the body shape will make the clothes not fit correctly. There is a way to deal with this, but this is a beginners guide. Full body injections are the norm, just not for this tutorial.
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image4.jpg
Select another V4 skin and apply it to the other figure:
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image5.jpg
You now have two fully textured and facially injected V4 models. The facial injections assures us that we are not working with twins (unless you are into that... in that case, don't do facial morphs).
3) Hair:
There are 2 kinds of hair in Poser, Hair from the Hair tab which is really a prop (explain that later), and hair from the Figures tab that has to be conformed (again... in a bit).
For our Lee, we will use Hair from the Hair tab, one of my favorites, Chocolate hair.
Since I am applying it from the Hair tab, I simply select the Lee and double click on the hair icon I want to add and it is "glued" to her as a prop. It will follow her around in any pose she takes. No further action is needed on your part:
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image6.jpg
Our Ler is going to be using Hair from the Figures tab. I forgot to take a screen of it, but if you have any V4 hair installed that is in the figures tab, select one and double click it. You needn't worry about selecting the Ler first as this is a conforming hair. This means you double click the hair and make sure it is the active object. Then click Figure -> Conform to... and a dialog will come up:
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image7.jpg
Select the character you want the conforming hair to and click OK. That hair is now also bound to the character, but in a much more tightly coupled way than prop hair. Again, that is a more advanced concept you will discover along the way.
4) Clothing:
Almost all clothing is conforming. There is a type called dynamic clothing, where you "drape" the cloth over the character letting gravity conform it to the character. That is a little ways further along for a beginner, but not overly hard either.
Going to my Figures tab, I open up a V4 clothing set I like, a little something from Roogna:
I put my Ler in a bra and panty set and my lee in a baby doll:
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image8.jpg
This is done the same way conforming hair was. double click the bra, make sure it is active, Figure -> Conform to... (Ler)
Do this with the panty and baby doll.
To spice things up, I will add some sexy boots to our Ler:
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image9.jpg
5) Clothing textures:
Right now, we have two relatively hot chicks wearing some very bland clothes. Lets add some colors and textures:
Click the Pose tab and look for any textures for the outfit you selected. Some outfits come automatically colored and there are no other choices. In this case, I can make the Ler all in red and the Lee in pink.
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image10.jpg
To do this, you simply select the bra, and double click the bra icon in the color you want.
The same goes for the panties and baby doll.
(As an aside, you also texture hair this way. Almost all hair has a great variety of textures included with it.)
And here is the tab to texture the boots. I really don't like red boots so I am going to choose black:
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image11.jpg
6) Furniture:
Furniture is pretty much equally distributed between the Figures tab (you don't conform furniture though) and the Props tab (Prop furniture can be parented to a figure and will move with that figure).
Let's get one of my favorite Racks:
I double click the rack icon from my Props tab and it appears on screen.
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image12.jpg
(nice rack, eh?)
7) Figure Posing:
The most important thing about figure posing is remembering to turn off Inverse Kinematics. That is a fancy term for something that is useful about 5% of the time and is turned on by default for your Characters. Select the character and click Figure -> Use Inverse Kinematics and you will see 4 entries. Make sure all 4 are unchecked. Again, this is a beginners tutorial. If you want to learn more about that feature, there are many, many forums to learn about that in.
Now, if all the kinematics are turned off, we can proceed.
I am going to get my Ler onto that rack first.
Being lazy, I am going to find a pre saved pose that is very close to what I want her to be in. I select my Pose tab and open up one of my bondage pose libraries:
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image13.jpg
I get a basic, arms together, legs apart bondage position which is about as close as I am going to get to fit that rack. The rest I do by hand.
Moving the Ler out of the way, I select the Lee and select the Rotate transformations on the left dials to get her on her back, then the positioning ones to get her properly placed.
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image14.jpg
To get the feet through the holes, select her thighs and use the Bend and Side transformations until the legs poke through as they should.
The hands, being part of a rack need some rope and I have an ancient rope prop for V3 that will work:
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image15.jpg
These ropes are parented to whoever is selected when I double click them, so I know they will stay with my Lee however I move her arms.
Now for our Ler:
Again, find a pose that is similar to one you like:
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image17.jpg
And make subtle changes to it to make it work. Don't try posing from a pure zero pose, that could take hours!! I am, by nature a very, very lazy man.
8) Expressions:
People torturing others or being tortured themselves seldom do so with a poker face. Expressions are what really make your work start to stand out.
Click the Expressions tab and select our Ler. Since she is tickling a friend, let's give her a playful grin:
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image18.jpg
I did this by selecting the Ler and double clicking the expression I wanted.
Our poor Lee should be anything but smirking, so let's try this out:
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image19.jpg
That is much more appropriate to a lady being tickled I think.
9) Eyes:
This is the one thing that most people neglect and besides lighting, it is the most important. If our Lee was looking off into the distance with a vacant stare, she wouldn't give us the proper feeling of sheer focus on those helpless feet of hers.
Select Poses, and find your library of V4 eye poses and double click Down, the most down you have. She is, after all, on the rack, having her feet tickled. She now looks like she is part of the scene. It really is amazing how eye position is so important to make a scene come alive:
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image20.jpg
10) Environment:
This is really one of the last steps, you don't want walls getting in the way of your view while you are posing, so I always leave the room itself for last. I am going to go to my Props tab, but many rooms are also in the Figures tab. I will select one of my favorite dungeons which is perfect for this rack and double click the icon for the room, stool, and torch.
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image21.jpg
11) Little "Extras:
If you want your scenes to really get second looks ad little details to it. In this case, I think our Lee should have a nice pair of sexy pumps on, well, one of them actually, the other having been take off by our Ler (the viewer will assume):
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image22.jpg
I just grabbed some fuck me pumps from my V4 Figures library and conformed the right pump, but left the other one un conformed and placed it on the rack. Now I am getting my viewer involved. A story is forming in their mind. When did that shoe come off? Did the Ler take it off or did the Lee kick it off? Get your viewers involved.
Normally I would add a few more things, like a vase full of feathers and such, but again, tutorial....
Give the pumps a nice shade of red via the Pose tab. Note how this pose also lets you pose V4's feet to look proper in her heels. Use this after you have everything else done with your figure to get the heels looking right on her feet.
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image23.jpg
12) Lighting:
I normally render in VUE, so I am done at that last step. I typically export my scene into VUE for rendering as it has a much higher quality rendering engine. Since you will be using poser for now, you have to add some decent lighting.
Click the Lights tab and find a set you like. Try a few. You just double click them, no need to have anything selected or do any conforming. When you find one you like, you are done with lighting.
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image24.jpg
Make any last minute adjustments and SAVE YOUR WORK before rendering:
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Image25.jpg
Hit Control R and watch your scene come alive:
http://www.virtualrealms.com/FreeStuff/ptutorial/Result.jpg
