Oh the days keep getting harder and harder to get things done with a newborn baby around. Screaming, eating, and diapers all day long. As hard as it is I'm trying to get a picture an image a day completed still. This week will be harder because, dun dun dun, the mother in-law will be here in two days. I can't wait for the fireworks to begin... READY... FIGHT!

• Poser 8 vs Carrara 7.2

I know I said i'd be doing a Carrara vs Poser image however each scene I make in Poser 8 seems to make Carrara crash (as if Carrara didn't have enough problems already). I'm going to have to create two identical scenes it seems and render them out that way since there doesn't seem to be an easy way to get content from one to the other. Poser imports OBJs exported from Carrara just fine however Carrara is the one having a hard time importing Poser scene files.

• Poser 8 Update

I've had Poser 8 for a bit over a week now and am loving it. I have noticed that I am experiencing some crashes here and there on rendering however I am rendering at extreme sizes up to 48 Megapixels (6000x8000). Other than that I've really had no other crashing with it. In fact I can say that the render times with IDL/GI blow Carrara out of the water. To get a render time that fast in Carrara 7.2 I have to fake GI with dome lighting. The latest image, seen below, was made entirely in Poser 8 with no post work done on it. Here are my default render settings I use;

Cast Shadows: On
Raytracing: On
Raytrace Bounces: 2
Irradiance Caching: 100
Indirect Light: On
Indirect Light Quality: 20
Pixel Samples: 9
Min Shading Rate: 0.10
Max Bucket Size: 16 -or- 32
Min Displacement Bounds: 0.00

Smooth Polygons: On
Use Displacement Maps: On
Post Filter Size: 2

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