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Test Lab 01 — Description
Man, this one took a while. I'm not 100% happy with it but I'm getting tired of tweaking it and re-rendering it, so here it is. I may redo it at some point in the future when I'm better at this.

At any rate I learned a lot on this one. It started easily enough; I found the free SF-y containment field, loaded it, stuck Duster in it, went, "Cool!" and started constructing a scene around that. Little did I know that I would end up pushing the boundaries of what I currently know how to do in DAZ Studio. I figured out a lot more about "emissives", which are basically objects that can emit light--such as the computer screens, the diodes and indicator lights, the glowing base of the containment unit, and the containment field itself.

Once I figured out how to make the computer screens glow properly I then wanted to customize them (as ya do). Just so you understand how obsessive I can get, the text box pointing to wireframe Duster's... er... chest in the right-most screen contains her vital signs. Yeah. I researched vital signs just so I could add some "authentic" text to that screen that isn't even legible. I'm either really committed to a high level of realism or I should simply be committed.

The henchmen are wearing the same outfit, configured differently, that I tried on Black Phantom recently ; many of you thought that looked too shiny (more like BDSM-dungeon latex or rubber than superhero spandex) so I applied myself to figuring out how to dial that way down for these guys' outfits. Thanks to everyone who gave feedback, whatever form it took. BP will look more like a superhero and less like a gimp when he next appears.

I was going to put a more modern lab coat on the evil scientist at left but I don't have one in my DAZ Studio content collection. What I do have is a cartoon-y mad scientist lab coat that looks like it belongs in a Frankenstein movie. So I went with that. It's all based on comic books so why not go over the top.

At any rate I like this situation a lot and there's more I could do with it. So I may revisit this in future, maybe even extend it out into a story.

EDIT: The future is now: NEXT

Another EDIT: I added some text to the image to make it a proper splash/title page.