Tiger Torture

If At First You Don't Succeed ...

Around 2005/6, I had an idea to have a go at creating a short animation film. As tigers are one of my passions, it only felt right that was to be the theme. I had a rough idea of the story, and I also decided it would be set to music.

As I have already mentioned earlier, I was having problems importing characters into Vue fully clothed, so I thought I'd have a go at a tiger. I was still a bit of a novice at this DAZ/Vue combination, so first results were not encouraging.

My first tiger render in DAZ was a complete genetic disaster. I made a mistake with the morph settings, and ended up with a lioness wearing a tiger skin.

The next problem was to create a scene with a realistic tiger, in a realistic scene.

After these two attempts, there was only one thing for it. Get the hang of importing objects.

After a lot of trial and error, with quite a few useless renders, the tiger enventually did as he was told.

The texture map on the tiger doesn't come through with the fine hair as seen in the DAZ renders, but there probably is a way around which I haven't found yet.

The tigers were initially posed in DAZ Studio, and then imported into Vue. Obviously some idea of the scene has to be known in advance, so the tigers can be put into the required pose. In this version I was unable to pose the tigers in Vue.

Filled with optimism, I tried importing a Poser character into Vue.

As I said earlier, this is an animation project. For the start, I wanted to show a sunrise over grass waving in a breeze.

In this short 10 second sequence, I made the sun rise a bit quicker than it would do, so I could see what sort of effect I would get.

To speed up the rendering time, I made it at a fairly low resolution, but it still took the best part of a day to complete. Rendered in Vue 7 Complete.

This is still an on-going project, and more pictures will be added later.

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