Daylight breaks before Cedar rests. She has not stopped moving since her flight from the insects and has been traveling at a near-running pace for what feels like an eternity. She has no idea which direction she moved, how fast … Continue reading Homing Sense

Cedar reflects on the events in her life as she expends the last cartridges for her weapon. She’d made every one of them count and not a single one of the valuable implements was wasted, just as she had been … Continue reading Zero Hesitation

Cedar is startled awake by the injured companion she had met nudging her urgently, “NEH, NEH!” Confusion swirls around within her sleep-muddled brain while the man shuffles about the cabin in a bluster, making an unruly racket. Her limbs feel … Continue reading Without a Fight

Cedar lives in a post-civilized, Earthlike world set two thousand years after a series of events that led to humanity’s rapid decline and near extinction. Nature has reasserted its dominance in mankind’s absence and time has erased all but the … Continue reading The Follower

Some of Cedar’s earliest memories are of unhappy occasions when people from the village failed to return before nightfall. She cannot recall any one of them who was seen alive again. The Hinterlands are dangerous, especially so at night. The … Continue reading Two Worlds

Now that Cedar has been properly introduced and her world somewhat explained, the narrative will begin to shift away from an omnipotent point of view and zoom in closer to the characters and what is happening to them within the … Continue reading Empathic Tendencies

While imagining the world in which “Sci-Fi Girl” lives, a few things come together rather quickly. The world is post-civilization and Earthlike, though not necessarily apocalyptic. Perhaps it is Earth in some alternate form. Some untold series of events caused … Continue reading Hinterlands Cedar

In my last post, I explained how my ascent up the learning curve has me traveling through the creative use of lighting to improve the quality of renders. I decided to try lighting one scene with various different lighting schemes. … Continue reading Working with Lights (Again)

Like just about anything, these days, volumes of information about Daz studio live on the internet. Finding the gems among the junk can be a challenge. But when those learning gems are uncovered, it feels like time well spent! The … Continue reading Working with Lights