Hero Forge Stuff

The first is an attempt to create a 3d version of Laura Bow, a character from classic adventure games (I chose a ref from the second game as the source image)

The second is trying to work on an idea I had for a fancy dress with fur trim for some kind of queen of frozen lands - still working on the details but I have been working on aspects of previous fancy dresses for this one. I may simplify the sleeves (arm warmers with poof sleeves and fur cuffs right now.) The face for this one is an attempt at Poppy Parker

Older Pose Highlight: Fetal Position

I made this a while back. I wanted to portray a lycanthropic character curled up for sleep and uploaded it as a mannequin. For this image I put a character in comfortable clothes in order to show it off.

I noticed it again as it was near the top of my uploads when I clicked on my own account. (I check to see if people like the stuff I post, which is akin to googling yourself, but also it shows you random posts from your past so it's kind of amusing too. I did a whole Power Rangers (early 90s tv show version) thing ages ago, haha!)

Upload: APR Fetal Position

If you search fetal position I think a few variants come up, so there's some options for you

A Fight Breaks Out

Concept: a fight breaks out during a fancy ball, she grabbed an axe from the wall and started swinging

I started adapting the last dress I kitbashed into this pose but the poofy sleeves did not want to behave (I was moving them it just was not working) and I ended up with one with the same bodice, but everything else is totally different.

Upload: Ball Gown Blitz APR (by me, based on that song)

Poofy Sleeves!

Images:

Top Left: "Lady Valentine" by Lyzara

Top Right: a 90s Barbie Princess (generic) I created after seeing Lyzara's post

Bottom Left: a goth elf princess, with the "black satin" swatch I decided upon in my satin making post (the dying void metal swatch.)

Bottom Right: a drow in a unicorn silk version of the dress, this is the version I uploaded as "ACR Ball Gown"

Below is how to get the poofy sleeves

you take a swashbuckler top, shrink it down totally, and them with the elbow level you make that part bigger and move it until you have a big poofy sleeve where you want it.

I added a choker on top to make a band at the top, you could also use a wedding ring or other items in that place for various shapes

Community Highlight: AKR Soft Gown by TinyTiefling

By the way, TinyTiefling is a wonderful Hero Forger, I do not know their pronouns so I default to they/them when I don't know. Their creations center around clothing and hair of many diverse options, and then there are some other little scenes created. This one is from this past week, and I found it so lovely.

The version uploaded is the first image!

Proportion differences make the dress a little shorter, so for most I went with the newer ribbon shoes, except with the goth elf which i used the high tops. I also want to note the "why" for the "before and after" of the woman in the last two pics is just to practice dirt/disheveled looks. Like kind of how the final girl at the end of the movie looks. (I have Grace from Ready or Not in mind, for one.) I released an AMR for bruises based on artistic and medical references earlier this week so I was using them on a few posts, though most of what I put out was pretty pretty princess dresses. (non-derogatory, dresses are fun.)

I wanted to switch back to proportions at the height of the default "true proportions" that are available to everyone (i.e. going back to just eyeballing things)

the left picture is the one I made recently at some really big height that kind of escalated to that height (i started trying to do 'artistic' proportions, and it got out of hand and very uneven)

The second picture is after I transferred true proportions into the people in the pose (and not altering the pose to make sense again)

It kinda cracks me up a little bit, as it looks a bit ridiculous now. It'll take me a while to transfer back to 'true proportions' but I think I'll do that instead of having some figures be unable to zoom out to view, etc.

Old uploads cannot be edited, so I think I'll leave these that I have even though they are basically giants in proportion to most other minis.

oh hang on let's see how they look with mini (default) proportions:

Oof. I haven't figured out what the issue is with custom heads. I always start them on a mini as the head size is default on those (not smaller, which makes transferring difficult I think?)

It could be fixed with a few adjustments. I'm going to show the other two poses I did recently to show how sometimes it looks ok mini and sometimes (like with this bright red dress one,) it takes some adjustment

These still look nice, endearing even. I would change the hand size for the femme characters and change their body types back to how they were at this scale (I only switched to default for this) -- I don't know why the heads look more normal among these two couples than the woman in the first one. (The head size thing is still basically a mystery to me.)

Overall I do think about how I put up poses and usually try to do true proportions or default/mini. Sometimes I'm on a whim and I used these odd ones for the last time today (I already banished the proportions to a folder, but it'll take time to make all of the body types and have everything be more even. But it'll be more standard for uploads.)

Valentine's Day Poses: Couples Dancing Together

I started by wanting to create a cute dress, see the bright red dress dress on the right here, but then I was like there's more dancing to be shown! I found some other poses to reference and picked some models and their outfits (non-kitbashed for everyone but the woman in bright red)

Poses shown:

DAPR Upbeat Dancing

DAPR Slow Dancing

DAPR Couple Dancing

(such descriptive names! There is a character limit on the titles, however.)

As for my ongoing proportions stuff: holy smokes I used to just have proportions close to "true proportions" where everyone was the same height, and then there was a body type preset for everyone a heel-height shorter and taller. They weren't artistically proportional, but they were also not like as tall as these ones ended up. Long story short with proportions: I am frustrated with them overall

New Earrings!

Accretion Gyre is a new item for spellcasting depictions, but naturally my mind goes to acceesories. I have the one on the left showing the colors I uploaded both items in, and the second one I played with it a bit (frankly lovely options with a lot of beautiful swatches)

AKR Accretion Gyre Earrings (dangle version shown)

AKR Accretion Gyre Studs (Stud option shown)

A work in progress. I've already uploaded the pose by itself (apr running in heels) but I have considered putting this up as an acr. The kick up in the back is how this skirt looks, so I thought I'd give it a contextual reason to do that. (I wish we had more control over how it looks though.)

basically rough drafts of the previous post (same reference uploads, with some variations as you can see with the headdress)

Concept/Purpose: Making twelve elven princess models and some of their wardrobe themed around the twelve birthstones. (So I chose twelve elf types from D&D lore, though there are others)

uploads used/modifed:

AKR Braided Dress by iotesshield

AKR Hip Slit Gown by iotesshield

ACR Empire Waist Gown by me (pose added after I made the dress)

Community Highlight: AKR Braided Dress by iotesshield

As you can see I did the original with one of my models and then modified the headdress a little to put in roses instead of the feathers (a lovely design, I tried bows (did not picture as it looked odd) and then roses instead.

Starfleet Creations

This is what comes to mind when someone makes some really good Starfleet Uniforms and puts them up. (Link 1: TOS, Link 2: TNG, Link3:DS9/VOY ) (I use parts of their creation in mine, to credit the work)

[The one that resembles Uhura is meant to resemble her only, I don't have a lot of face models created after real people as I don't like to do that. Also her hair is natural here and in the show it was relaxed, but options for TOS-style hair are very limited. If I was uploading a Nurse Chapel ballerina I think I'd just put her in the french twist one for example. Basically I just think this looks badass.)

I tweaked the color a little bit, I had already created a little collection of Starfleet uniform colors in my color library (so the ones he has are probably more accurate, use what you'd prefer - though mine aren't all up for download anyway)

to add sleeves like I did for the Lower Decks uniform: shrink a shirt to disappear into the torso, then place the top of the shoulder of the tiny shirt near the person's shoulder, then grow the nodule on the shoulder to get a normal sized sleeve.

I didn't intend to exclude science/medical but it's just kinda how this one shook out. The upload for my Lower Decks Uniform AKR has the medical as the femme figure example (to just have an easily accesible badge, one could move/rotate starting badge to work on whichever kind of body proportions)

Someone uploaded a very detailed hogtied person hold (just the person on the ground) and my first thought went to the Red Dead Redemption games

These are recreations of part of the bounty hunting system (getting someone and taking them somewhere else)

I have no idea if the people are in scale with the horse, but getting them to be 7-8 heads without being too huge (work in progress)

Anyway here's the poses as they show up in the community tab:

Hogtied AKPR (by Casual Zeke - not shown here in this post)

Western Hogtie Hold DAPR (by me)

Eh I just loved sneaking around with a bright light and the radio playing and it still worked. (Although if I remember correctly, I think I would turn off the radio to hear footsteps/etc.)

I use the Hero Forge equivalent of the pip boy which unfortunately has the odd finger things, otherwise it's a pretty decent recreation.