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This is something I've been working on since Tuesday and I finally completed it last night before I went to bed. This is my first time using dynamic clothing (because Conforming clothes wouldn't work right.) and it came out just as I envisioned it to.

The process in which I followed was pretty complicated due to many factors that I had to deal with. The first step in the process was to properly prepare the prop that I needed to use to emulate my reference properly. I set up the lamp post by scaling it higher than it's default settings with the lamp being set at 100.00 before it changed over to 199.00 which made it taller and bigger than it was in default settings. It took me about 10 minutes to properly prepare it for the next step. I saved the document in case my laptop decided to shut down during scheduled updates.
The second task at hand was posing the model on top of the lamp post. I opened up my reference in second window and looked at it carefully examining every bend and fold of the clothing. The way her pose was made I ensured that I hadn't dressed or chose her hair as that was saved for the last part of the process. I set the model atop the lamp post carefully, I added a bit of liberties with the pose such as bending the legs using the IK settings so the top of her leg would "pop out" and look thicker. After I was satisfied with her pose I moved onto adding the clothes.

I originally was going to use the Moon stone dress but the whole dress had became hard to pose on the lamppost as it'd intersect with her legs. I tried about 4 different outfits before settling on the babydoll for A3 which is a simple outfit set that had a see-through skirt. I tested the dynamic clothing settings in the cloth room in Poser using the pants of the set. It came out as I wanted to save for the bottom flares being a pair in the butt so I opted out of using it and chose to focus on using the top that resembles a dress. I put it on the model and set the timeline to key-frame 15 where I then began work in the cloth room. I started off with the new simulation and named it "Dress" before I press clothify and began setting up the places in which the clothes would collide and lay properly. I then pressed "calculate simulation" and the clothes began laying and settling on the model. After it was done I pressed save and resumed work on the next task.

Her hair was easy to choose as I wanted it to be tied up in a bun style with ribbons in the back. I prepared her hair morphs to match the model's facial structure which I was working on in tandem with the hair styling. I got everything the way I wanted before I saved again.

The final part was adding in the background props. I chose a castle because the character is a princess (you can't tell since she's not wearing anything "Royal".) and I made sure to have the castle be a little focus of the piece but not the primary focus as I wanted it to be in the background behind the character. I moved the camera up to show the top spires of the castle and the flag but still focus more on the model and the lamppost. After everything was setup I added the lighting I wanted and pressed "Render" after setting up my proper settings.

After it rendered I opened up Photoshop to fix mistakes that couldn't be fixed in Poser. I added a hint of a light coming the bulb in the lamppost before adding lighting "overlays" which helped to give the piece the feeling of nighttime. After I was satisfied with the overlay layers I turned them off and set work on the background. I created a background filled with dark blue and used the brush tool to color the background darkly before taking another tool (I forgot the name sorry!) and began lightening the background's dark blue layer evenly. After that was done I used some nighttime sky brushes to add the moon, the clouds, and the stars in a nice stylistic way in which allowed for the stars to have a pattern which made it look nicer. I then highlighted the star layer and used the settings to add the inner and outer glow and set them to luminosity which gave it the glow you see now. After the background was done I turned the overlays back on and opened my file to get my watermark which I added to the piece and I saved it as JPEG file rather than a PNG as it was previously.

Finally I uploaded this to Deviantart and added the description along with the technical notes.

I hope you guys like it! I worked really hard to ensure everything was properly done and not a single thing is out of place.

Enjoy!

Technical Notes and Credits:
Created in Poser 11 Pro
Postwork done in Adobe Photoshop CS4 (64 Bit)
Model: Aiko 3
Clothing: BabyDoll for A3
Hair: Giselle Hair for A3
Props: Lamppost and Castle
Pose Reference(s): Girl on a lamp post base and tinyurl.com/Chii-on-lamppost
Brushes: Star BRUSHES , Beautiful Clouds Brushes , and Moons Stars Sparkles Brushes
Princess © Lady-Cinderella

Description
This is something I've been working on since Tuesday and I finally completed it last night before I went to bed. This is my first time using dynamic clothing (because Conforming clothes wouldn't work right.) and it came out just as I envisioned it to.

The process in which I followed was pretty complicated due to many factors that I had to deal with. The first step in the process was to properly prepare the prop that I needed to use to emulate my reference properly. I set up the lamp post by scaling it higher than it's default settings with the lamp being set at 100.00 before it changed over to 199.00 which made it taller and bigger than it was in default settings. It took me about 10 minutes to properly prepare it for the next step. I saved the document in case my laptop decided to shut down during scheduled updates.
The second task at hand was posing the model on top of the lamp post. I opened up my reference in second window and looked at it carefully examining every bend and fold of the clothing. The way her pose was made I ensured that I hadn't dressed or chose her hair as that was saved for the last part of the process. I set the model atop the lamp post carefully, I added a bit of liberties with the pose such as bending the legs using the IK settings so the top of her leg would "pop out" and look thicker. After I was satisfied with her pose I moved onto adding the clothes.

I originally was going to use the Moon stone dress but the whole dress had became hard to pose on the lamppost as it'd intersect with her legs. I tried about 4 different outfits before settling on the babydoll for A3 which is a simple outfit set that had a see-through skirt. I tested the dynamic clothing settings in the cloth room in Poser using the pants of the set. It came out as I wanted to save for the bottom flares being a pair in the butt so I opted out of using it and chose to focus on using the top that resembles a dress. I put it on the model and set the timeline to key-frame 15 where I then began work in the cloth room. I started off with the new simulation and named it "Dress" before I press clothify and began setting up the places in which the clothes would collide and lay properly. I then pressed "calculate simulation" and the clothes began laying and settling on the model. After it was done I pressed save and resumed work on the next task.

Her hair was easy to choose as I wanted it to be tied up in a bun style with ribbons in the back. I prepared her hair morphs to match the model's facial structure which I was working on in tandem with the hair styling. I got everything the way I wanted before I saved again.

The final part was adding in the background props. I chose a castle because the character is a princess (you can't tell since she's not wearing anything "Royal".) and I made sure to have the castle be a little focus of the piece but not the primary focus as I wanted it to be in the background behind the character. I moved the camera up to show the top spires of the castle and the flag but still focus more on the model and the lamppost. After everything was setup I added the lighting I wanted and pressed "Render" after setting up my proper settings.

After it rendered I opened up Photoshop to fix mistakes that couldn't be fixed in Poser. I added a hint of a light coming the bulb in the lamppost before adding lighting "overlays" which helped to give the piece the feeling of nighttime. After I was satisfied with the overlay layers I turned them off and set work on the background. I created a background filled with dark blue and used the brush tool to color the background darkly before taking another tool (I forgot the name sorry!) and began lightening the background's dark blue layer evenly. After that was done I used some nighttime sky brushes to add the moon, the clouds, and the stars in a nice stylistic way in which allowed for the stars to have a pattern which made it look nicer. I then highlighted the star layer and used the settings to add the inner and outer glow and set them to luminosity which gave it the glow you see now. After the background was done I turned the overlays back on and opened my file to get my watermark which I added to the piece and I saved it as JPEG file rather than a PNG as it was previously.

Finally I uploaded this to Deviantart and added the description along with the technical notes.

I hope you guys like it! I worked really hard to ensure everything was properly done and not a single thing is out of place.

Enjoy!

Technical Notes and Credits:
Created in Poser 11 Pro
Postwork done in Adobe Photoshop CS4 (64 Bit)
Model: Aiko 3
Clothing: BabyDoll for A3
Hair: Giselle Hair for A3
Props: Lamppost and Castle
Pose Reference(s): Girl on a lamp post base and tinyurl.com/Chii-on-lamppost
Brushes: Star BRUSHES , Beautiful Clouds Brushes , and Moons Stars Sparkles Brushes
Princess © Lady-Cinderella