John, you make me smile. Really.

I'm into massive computing, physics simulation included, since 1976. I'm into home graphics fiddling (graphc card drivers, POV raytracing) since 1986. I'm into more enhanced 3D (3D Studio, then MAX, then Cinema4D) since 1996. I won prizes, the shorts are on my (olde) website (the Mirror-in-Mirror one with the Smarts took over 1000 hours continuous ! rendering time on a 4 PC cluster for the final result only).

I also spend my time on Bryce, MojoWorld (panorama on my new site) and I started doing Vue some time ago. Recent result is in my Rendo gallery as well. I started a new site in April, and have over 120 manazine reviews and 1200 artist links added in already. Its growing 3 magz issues a month, and the editors are asking for more.

I also spend a few years on chairing and organizing a Dutch graphics community, with tens of active menbers, based on real (non virtual) gatherings and projects. As one of the outcomes I gave you my friend and rendo artist RocSerum for a full size front-page interview on this site (see the 2010/11 Winter Favorites post about Cornelis on my own website to save you looking for the links). The organizing etc (money raising!) took so much time that I had to stop it only to be able to do anything creative myself again.

In the meantime I looked at Daz Studio, and worked with P3dO developer Yarp to get the non-Poser DS filetypes into his tool, plus some additional features I needed for getting the grips on my 50Gb content library.

So, I rebooted Poser in July this year and restarted all serious learning from the bottom up. That's the way I work. At the bottom is my PC itself. As a result, I gave you a thorough PC-memory-management tutorial by Oct-1. It's in the Rendo Tutorial section as well, 150 hits from there, 900 hits in total. All other findings will end up in tutorials at the same level of quality. 

Working from the bottom up, I started Camera, then all Lighting and I'm into Posing and Animation right now. Reallife poses and moves for reallife characters at photoreal quality in 7000x5000 size stills and DVD-quality shorts. I'm about able to replicate Rianeli's photos in Poser, lighting (and shaowing!) included. Show me you cn do it too. It takes him half a day to get the lighting done in a real studio with a real model, you know. And all of it will end up in tutorials for you.

Cloth Dynamics is just a side kick at the moment, but I give it priority for you. I only spend two weeks on it, between finding out that Conforming was not the way in my short (mid September) and refocusing on Posing (end September) as that was my main issue in the first place. The animation I will show you (when the thing has finished rendering) and everything I present on this issue, is the result of only that, starting with empty hands two weeks earlier. Now you know.

This is spare time only, in case you wondered. I've got a fulltime day job as a project management consultant. And I'm into critical comments on gallery results, for those who like that. I'm into various forum debates, like a recent one on gamma correction and file types. I learned a lot, especially from bagginsbill, but from others as well. Perhaps I can give him something back on this topic, or anything else. I'm no guru, but I'm thorough and determined. And I will get there. With you, I hope.

So, dear John, you make me smile. No hard feelings, no annoyance. Poser has six rooms only and I will eat them one by one completely. Hence, this is your own question in return: are you ready to have me as a member of your ever-growing club? Then better fasten your seatbelts, as the engines aren't even warm yet. 

I'll be back with you this evening, over say 8 hours or so.

See you around, happy draping. 

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Usually I'm wrong. But to be effective and efficient, I don't need to be correct or accurate.

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