Victoria Generations Event : Show me your best Victoria renders!
(image from https://www.daz3d.com/classic-fantasy-warrior-princess by Blondie9999)
Hi folks,
I'd very much like to create a live webinar event (it would be free entry - allowing anyone to participate) celebrating the versatility and longevity of the Victoria 4 (and beyond) 3D figures. I think it would be a fun AND a nostalgic event, but it would also underline the fact that some artists are still using this older generation figure and content for a few purposes. For example older generation characters are good for background figures and animation for example (less resource hungry).
Widening the subject matter to ANY generation figure of Victoria (we're looking at 20+ years of history) could be good, since looking at some of the very earliest "Millenium Woman" artwork is quite a "blast from the past". Widening the topic like this could help us see the evolution of 3D character figures over the years and also see what artists are creating with current Victoria 8.
I will most likely run this event on Saturday the 1st of August.
So here's some questions for you :-
- Do you still use Victoria 4?
- What are some of you favourite Victoria 4 (or later generation) Vicky vendors?
- Do you have some nostalgic or up to date Victoria artwork that we could help celebrate this particular generation character?
Would love to see some of your nostalgic artwork as well as your thoughts on this.
Comments
Im still use V4 .
V8F
Thanks Bamber. Are you using V4 because you have a large amount of content or it is quicker to render?
Just a suggestion but you might get more feedback if this was in The Commons.
Don't know if this is my best but it is my latest. You can see Victoria 2 renders in my gallery: https://www.daz3d.com/gallery/#galleries/410/ if you are interested.
V3 Goes Bond
I know it's not a great picture, but it is one I love. It was an event that happened to me, and the cat shown in it was my dear old Albert who died in 2004 so maybe that's why I like it so much. I made a Poser4 Cat texture as much like him as I could, though the Poser4 Cat couldn't morph into anything like his shape (he was like a soccer ball with a cat front & back end attached). Anyway, I was in my bedroom & heard a crash somewhere else in the house and then Albert suddenly bolted into the room, and without stopping ran up my front and hugged my face. For a few seconds all I could see or breath was cat stomach. I first posted the image on Renderosity on 15 July 2006. The figure is Jim Burton's Glamorous Vickie 3 (A V3 varient) as I saw no reason not to improve on the rather unattractive reality of what I look like. Think it was rendered in DS 0.7.
Then, after updating her materials etc, I think my 'best' might be [G]V3 in Willow Creek, from earlier this year.
I have posted 2 V4 images both in 2007, but don't use her now as I honestly can't see any advantages for using her over G8F varients. I still use the two V3 models I have (GV3 and Blackhearted's 'Girl Next Door 2: Athletic') in limited poses where their joint limitations can be disguised. And the reason for keeping with such elderly models is, frankly, I have seen no compare for their shapes since they came out. They are sufficiently good to persist with despite the problems. And I like a challenge.
Regards,
Richard
I started with V4, and my primary gaming character was built on a V4. I recently converted her to Genesis, simply for the opportunity to autofit newer clothing options to her... but she doesn't quite look the same. V4 was capable of a great deal more than people give her credit for :-) She has the best variety of clothes and hairs, and she is still an amazingly affordable and flexible character base.
I still use her to take advantage of some sets that don't work with other generations, and Surreality was my favourite vendor. This render is a couple of years old, now, but it's still my favorite.
You really captured a magic moment! Bravo!
One of my fav V4.2 characters!
Nitah.
V4 dial spun using morphs++ rendered in Bryce
Couple I found.
Alice for V4 by Aery Soul
This was my website banner back then and I still love the way it came out.
Done in 2010. 3 Vickies. The background was rendered in Vue, the vickies and foreground in Poser. I stitched them together in Photoshop.