Star Trek Builders Unite 8: THE REBOOT

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  • RonwaldRonwald Posts: 71

    ericolsen said:

    Hey guys!  Been away for a while, I'm just getting back into some Trek fun here.  I thought I'd share something I noticed about the snazzy SC20 Botanical Garden product available in the store--just for fun, it works quite well as an interesting (IMO) portion of cylindrical transport containers used by the Ptolemy-class ships (for fans of the old Franz Joseph designs). 

     

    Very, very cool! yes 

  • RonwaldRonwald Posts: 71

    Redfern said:

    Here's my contribution to the "clowder", a simplr full body portrait of M'Ress, but one in which I tried to replicate the pose of the Hallmark brand hanging ornament released a few years ago as a convention exclusive.

    The base figure is Aiko 3 with face pose I "dialed up" years ago.  The uniform is Oshikai's freebie retro-dress with the Trek texture set.  The hair is Ali's HR-086.

     

    That's an outstanding image!  

  • PtropePtrope Posts: 681
    edited October 2021

    I took my inspurration from Redfern, as well ... wink

    Hey, with the clone body of Aiko 3 for G8F now available, has anyone tested the old TOS dress on her? I'm in the middle of a move and don't even know where all my assets are at the moment.

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  • randym77randym77 Posts: 275

    There's still people using Melody for Aiko 3. Though I think she has plantigrade feet, not digitigrade.

    Little Dragon did the Millennium Catwoman with digitigrade feet as a freebie, but that was for Vicky 1/2. Still one of my favorite figures. I just wish there were more textures for her.

     

  • RedfernRedfern Posts: 1,598
    edited October 2021

    randym77 said:

    There's still people using Melody for Aiko 3. Though I think she has plantigrade feet, not digitigrade.

    Little Dragon did the Millennium Catwoman with digitigrade feet as a freebie, but that was for Vicky 1/2. Still one of my favorite figures. I just wish there were more textures for her.

    "Melody" is actually my preferred figure as it allowed me to adapt into polygonal form a personal OC I call Mzzkiti (depicted here).  As packaged, yes, she's plantigrade, but there once was a product called "Kasa for A3" that swapped the geometry of the shins, feet and toes for a digitigrade stance.  I used the "Kasa" digi' feet upon Aiko 3 with some "furry" head morphs upon Aiko 3 to create M'Ress.  Since Melody has the same geometry for the lower legs, the product works upon that figure, too, allowing me to use Melody to depict Mzzkiti.  Alas, the content creator, JENelson (aka Achronicity at Fur Affinity) closed his store at Rendo' years ago and the product is no longer available.

    Some may be wondering why don't I use Aiko 3 or Melody to depict both M'Ress and Mzzkiti.  Meh, it keeps them distinctive.  M'Ress is part of a generally more serious universe and the morphs are (arguably) more "realistic".  Mzzkiti resides in more of a "slapstick" comedic realm and the "toony" morphs from the "Furries for Melody" package better match my traditional cartooning style.

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  • randym77randym77 Posts: 275

    Nice render! I never picked up Melody, but I probably will, the next time she goes on sale. The original Melody has such a cute face.

  • RedfernRedfern Posts: 1,598

    randym77 said:

    Nice render! I never picked up Melody, but I probably will, the next time she goes on sale. The original Melody has such a cute face.

    If you do, you really should get this additional morph set...

    https://www.daz3d.com/furries-for-melody

    It greatly expands the versatility of the base figure.  It allows you to depict creatures like canids, ursines, rodents mustelids, etc.

    Packages like...

    https://www.daz3d.com/furries-furs-tigers

    ...and...

    https://www.daz3d.com/furries-furs-fox-and-wolf

    ...don't offer any additional morphs (just convenient presets), but they have head and body textures.  The critical set I listed has only the injection morphs and a selection of preset faces, but no textures.  Just noting that to avoid any confusion.  Of course, Ethin has offered a couple of freebie texture sets with preset face morphs at ShareCG.

    I have the whole bloody collection, everything LittleFox and Capsces offered in this range, from the initial base Melody figure to the last released add-on, Furry Faces - Dog.

  • randym77randym77 Posts: 275

    I love Capsces' morph packs. I wish they'd do a morph pack for La Femme or Dawn 2.

  • RedfernRedfern Posts: 1,598

    randym77 said:

    I love Capsces' morph packs. I wish they'd do a morph pack for La Femme or Dawn 2.

    It seems Beth has ceased doing morphs for several years now, focusing strictly upon pose sets.

  • carrie58carrie58 Posts: 3,979
    edited October 2021

    randym77 said:

    Nice render! I never picked up Melody, but I probably will, the next time she goes on sale. The original Melody has such a cute face.

    The Melody and Mica bundle have been in the PC  sale for 2.99

    https://www.daz3d.com/melody-and-micah-bundle

    you can get the bundle or the individuals

     

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  • randym77randym77 Posts: 275

    Redfern said:

    randym77 said:

    I love Capsces' morph packs. I wish they'd do a morph pack for La Femme or Dawn 2.

    It seems Beth has ceased doing morphs for several years now, focusing strictly upon pose sets.

    Someone at Rosity said it was actually a married couple that made those morph packs. And that they aren't together any more. I guess that might explain the change in focus.

     

  • randym77randym77 Posts: 275
    edited October 2021

    carrie58 said:

    randym77 said:

    Nice render! I never picked up Melody, but I probably will, the next time she goes on sale. The original Melody has such a cute face.

    The Melody and Mica bundle have been in the PC  sale for 2.99

    https://www.daz3d.com/melody-and-micah-bundle

    you can get the bundle or the individuals

    I've got the bundle on my wish list, along with the morph pack.

    I'm not a member of the PC Club these days. I was for many years, but as a Poser user, there's just not much there for me any more. I'm not even sure how the PC Club works these days. Are things still $1.99? The older stuff I'm interested in goes on sale for really cheap pretty regularly.

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  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,043

    modelling in Carrara whilst watching the cricket! surprise

    model it so..... laugh

     

  • randym77randym77 Posts: 275

    Nice! I like the Picard-style combadge.

  • wsterdanwsterdan Posts: 2,343

    Very nicely done, as always Stezza, also fun!

    -- Walt Sterdan

  • RonwaldRonwald Posts: 71

    Ptrope said:

    I took my inspurration from Redfern, as well ... wink

    Hey, with the clone body of Aiko 3 for G8F now available, has anyone tested the old TOS dress on her? I'm in the middle of a move and don't even know where all my assets are at the moment.

     

    That's a fantastic image!  yes 

  • RonwaldRonwald Posts: 71

    Stezza said:

    modelling in Carrara whilst watching the cricket! surprise

    model it so..... laugh

     

     

    Those are great!  

  • randym77randym77 Posts: 275

    Not sure Lower Decks should be Trek canon, but it has its moments. Caitians appear a lot more cat-like, in looks and behavior in LD. Like, they LOVE boxes. :-D

     

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  • Lower Decks is cannon.  And it respects cannon FAR more than anything else in the past 15 years.

  • randym77randym77 Posts: 275

    I know officially it's canon, but that doesn't mean I have to accept it.

    I mean, given the way they spawn timelines like tribbles, you can always assume anything inconvenient is just in a different timeline. You know, like Brannon Braga did.

     

  • genejokegenejoke Posts: 129

    randym77 said:

    I know officially it's canon, but that doesn't mean I have to accept it.

    I mean, given the way they spawn timelines like tribbles, you can always assume anything inconvenient is just in a different timeline. You know, like Brannon Braga did.

     

    My way of looking at anything "inconvienient" canon wise is treating it as being by an unreliable narrator, captains logs and all that.

  • wsterdanwsterdan Posts: 2,343

    I view Lower Decks as some very, very good Trek stories wrapped up in animation with a touch of cartoon humour. If you want to ignore the humour (which I still find better than in The Orville (which I also like), you're left with some very good stories, well-told and compacted nicely into their short format. I found the main story in both season enders to be better than a lot of "real" Trek episodes.

    For me, the only thing wrong are that the seasons are too short and I have to wait too long until the next season.

    -- Walt Sterdan

  • randym77randym77 Posts: 275

    I'm not wild about Lower Decks. But then, I'm not really a fan of comedy. I might be the only Trek fan in the known universe who didn't care for The One With the Whales. I haven't seen every episode of LD, but so far, it seems more a lot of in-jokes than good stories.

    It sounds like Paramount's strategy is a wide variety of different Treks, with no one series intended to appeal to everyone. I might like Strange New Worlds better than other modern Treks. Picard is just too grim for me.

  • randym77randym77 Posts: 275

    And, Melody and Micah are mine. DAZ is doing one of their "everyone's a PC+ member" promotions today.

  • TimbalesTimbales Posts: 2,330
    Lower Decks for me is like that old Xzibit meme - "We put Star Trek in your Star Trek so you can Star Trek while you Star Trek". It humorously references Star Trek history like a viewer while also being Star Trek. It's fun I don't take too seriously.
  • RedfernRedfern Posts: 1,598

    Plus, the original series had some rather "high concept, tongue in cheek" episodes that are arguably more absurd than what Lower Decks has presented.  "Spock's Brain", "Piece iof the Action", "Trouble with Tribbles, "I, Mudd"...

  • jestmartjestmart Posts: 4,449

    Many TOS episodes where adapted from short stories by various sci-fi writers.

  • randym77randym77 Posts: 275

    My attempt at T'Ana, using Melody as a base. T'Ana doesn't have a tail. And has plantigrade feet. She even wears boots, unlike M'Ress.

     

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  • genejokegenejoke Posts: 129

    Seeing the promotional stuff for the new Trek kids show prodigy made me think of tyhe Astromaster by Kibaretto.

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