Torrefaction

1. installed DAZ Studio Advanced version 3.  DAZ Studio is a 3d posing & rendering app, a competitor to Poser, for the hobbiest market, more or less.  The base app is free, with a "tell ware" license, which means you agree to tell two people about it.  This is me, telling you about the app. You can pick it up at www.daz3d.com if you're interested. 

2. Loaded a file, "Ariane 6.pz3" that I'd previously been working on very slooowly in Poser 6

3. Told DS how to find all the associated content files

4. Put cooler hair on the figure in the scene

5. Put a better skin texture on the figure in the scene

6. Added some lights to the scene

7. Test-rendered the scene

I've opened DS about twice, ever.  Tonight is my first time using this version, and I did all of that in about an hour, without having to refer to help text or the product tutorial.  In Poser, which I have been using for 10 years,  I would have spent my entire evening doing that stuff...even with the memory upgrade I put in a couple of weeks ago.  

This is very cool. Images are for a semi-sekrit project, so I can't share them yet, but I now have hopes of them looking the way I imagine them in my head.  YAY.