A quick and simple image rendered in Poser 4, then postworked for hue, saturation, brightness, and blur layers. On the right is a character called Wolfgang, on the left is his female counterpart Constanze, and on the wall behind them is part of Vincent van Gogh''s famous 1889 painting ''Starry Night.''
We were discussing these figures in relation to an image recently posted by DazLovers ( www.posetteforever.com/album_showpage.php?pic_id=8667 ). I looked into my archives and found I had half a dozen of the figures that I''ve never really used; since I was looking at them anyway, I made this image with ''Wolfgang'' and ''Constanze.'' Looks like those two, as well as many others representing different animals, are still available as freebies at Renderosity ( www.renderosity.com/users/id:51892/freestuff?sb=newest&page=3 ). The figures all require an old tool program called Maz''s ObjAction Mover to decode, so you''d need that too if you want to try them.
So apparently the story on these figures is that they were all made by someone who keeps changing their internet nickname as time goes by; originally the name was Lemuretek, then Dave Matthews, then Capsces. But Lemuretek had them distributed as freebies by another person called LIttleDragon. Thanks to our own Dolly13 for additional info in helping sort out this old mystery.
Anyway, based on the ones I have from the series, they seem to be nice figures for the Poser 4 era. For this render I adjusted their material settings, and also gave them generic bump maps (as they had none), but otherwise the textures shown here are whatever came with the models. If a person was going to make frequent use of the figures today, you''d probably want to make better texture maps for them, especially for their tails. With the files for Wolfgang I found that someone named Schlabber had made a nice set of poses for him (which also worked fine for Constanze), so I just used two of those here with only a little tweaking.
Vincent van Gogh made his painting Starry Night in 1889 while he was staying in an insane asylum at Saint-Remy in southern France, after he sliced off his own ear in a fit of melancholy. Hence the title of this image.
Those are awesome links, Dolly13. Apparently that Schlabber was a busy fellow, anyone needing poses for their P4 characters can find enough on those links to make a hundred scenes.
