integral31

Those of you who have regularly browsed my web page will have noticed a distinct lack of new renders or feedback over the last few weeks and there's a reason for that... My old (And I mean OLD) computer has recently suffered a 'Sudden Catastrophic Total Existence Failure' and I've had to go through the rigmarole of purchasing a replacement. It also means installing the backups of my favourite graphics programmes, et al and slowly getting back on track. I thought I'd saved my most recent renders in a cloud backup, but it seems I'd backed up every kind of picture on my old computer BUT those. Yep. Anyway, until I've finished exploring the peculiarities of Windows11 and installed Poser 11 and my various libraries into this new wonderbox, you, my dear voyeurs; will have to content yourselves with the pictures already here. On the plus side: My new computer has 4 times the memory of the old one, so I'll be able to start faffing around with DAZ Studio as well as Poser... This should be

It's not been a particularly happy time for me. What with one thing and another. Here on D'Art I've suffered particular losses with both Stjepan Sejic (The Artist formerly known as Shiniez ) and his wife Linda (Sigeel) departing the site and purging their galleries as they went. I'm not going to involve myself in this whole AI muck-slinging shout-fest. While I CAN draw for toffee, I've never attempted to do so using IT Software (I take that back. I tried it a long, long time ago using a very early version of Corel Paint with very limited results), concentrating all my efforts on Poser 3D renders and as such I'm not what you'd call a traditional artist. Thus, I'm going to stay way out of the firing line while others eviscerate each other with their styluses and laptops (They're blunter, so they'll hurt more than knives), over the use of AI Algorithms and how they should be used and with whose work. Right now, my concern is that I've lost access to some of Shiniez's beautiful works -

As my many followers will know (Bless you both), I'm something of a dinosaur when it comes to using £D software. I'm still using Poser 10 while everyone else is buying the latest Poser (Issue12?) or have switched to DAZ Studio and the characters I use are Victoria's 3&4 and Michael 3 when everyone else is using Gen3,4 and their Vicki equivalents. Still, the old program has only plagued me with problems - usually as a result of update downloads for Windows, on a couple of occasions. Today I've encountered a new problem: I turned on Poser 10 and it activated in it's usual manner, displaying the 'Pose' page with 'Andy' the baseline figure standing in the middle of his window... But the 'Libraries' box with all the character, pose, materials et al was missing. Instead, sitting where the libraries box should be was the information icon for Adobe Flash Player - and it won't go away. I've downloaded the Adobe Flash Player Uninstaller (Flash player is no longer supported and they advise you