There have been many different 3d horse models over the years (since 1999) that I have been using Poser. In terms of realism and posability they have come a long way yet some of the older models still have a place in your runtime. This is a series of articles discussing all of the ones that I have owned and their pros and cons from the old P4 horse to the Hivewire 3d Horse.
My Millennium Horse Dynamic Hair Project Well today it’s been back to an old project for me as I needed to render a horse with realistic hair in Carrara. I worked on this a few years ago using the Millennium Horse <Mil Horse) model which was real a pain as all in built geometry based …
Free downloads for the various Poser 3d horse figures here. Includes stuff for the Daz 3d Millennium Horse (MilHorse), the Poser 4 horse and textures to transform the Daz Zebra to a cute little donkey!
Whilst I love the idea of the new mapping on the DHorse2 with it’s large separate head map for super detailed textures, I have so many of my own custom made photoreal textures for the MIlHorse that I was gutted at the thought of not being able to use them with the new horse model.
Well this is annoying! I finally found the pen for my graphics tablet (hiding between bottles of nail polish on my desk side…) and settled down with my render and Photoshop to finish up the portrait of my cheeky, chunky welsh cob, Cruz and as I often do got carried away….
Now after producing several variations of my image I just can’t decide on which one I like the best. This image is intended to hang in my hallway so I want the best one, but full of cold and feeling the tug of a hot bubble bath and my warm bed I need some help. Which one of the above images do you like the best? Also do you have any constructive suggestions to improve it?
Once I find the pen for my ageing wacom intuos graphics tablet I can put the finishing touches (hair) to this digital portrait of my own horse Cruz.
I have been working on a new dapple grey texture for my heavy draft horse morph for the Daz Millennium Horse figure. I have modeled this morph on the heavy european type draft horse such as the Breton
I just came across these old renders on my Picasa account and thought I’d upload them here.
They are from around the time Carrara 6 Pro was released and it was my aim to create realistic dynamic hair for the Millennium Horse model.
What I learned was that it took an awful lot of work to prepare the MilHorse model for use with dynamic hair in the first place as it has three seperate polygon meshes
Well I’ve finished up a new composite image, entitled Red Gold. It was rendered in Poser 6 with the scenery painted in Photoshop. I also painted the horses mane and tail in Photoshop and blended the horse with the background.
The following renders are samples of my texture work on the Daz 3d Millennium Horse a.k.a. the MilHorse. I’ve made all of them from scratch using high resolution photographs including some from my own horses, combined with hand painting in Photoshop.
I have almost finished a new sooty bay texture for the Daz3d Millennium Horse that will be part of my new package. This is a very detailed glossy texture and is one of my favorites so far. The horse texture package is taking longer than I expected as I keep finding new stuff that I …
This is one of the three morphs that I am currently packaging up for the Daz3d Millennium Horse model. The package will contain three morphed characters, this draft horse, a cute pony and the morph for the paint horse that is in my previous post. I will be releasing a texture set at the same …
