11/24/2015 9:23:46 AM by
Teronsuke
(Edited: 11/26/2015 1:44:04 AM)
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Artist Name:
Lee A. Alverson aka lalverson
Artist Gallery:
http://www.renderotica.com/artists/lalverson/Gallery
Artist Store:
http://www.renderotica.com/content-artists/lalverson/282
Q) what brought you into 3D?
I had been doing regular pencil and ink work since the 90's and wanted to tell stories but I sucked at reproducing a character I drew over and over again. I had seen poser images at that point but it looked like they couldn't be altered to look like people I wanted. Until I saw an image from Donna Waltz called "Dryad" and saw what she was able to do and I had that "Ah Ha" Moment and found the program then poser 4 and the rest is history.
Q) How did you choose your nickname?
It was easy to remember as it's just a shortened version of my name. I figured if I'm going to do art, people should know who I am.
Q) How long have you been creating your artwork?
Since 1997 in 3d.
Q) what are the specs of your render machine?
The one i use on the road is a Lenovo with a 2.6ghz i7 and 8 GB of ram and Nvidia g force video card (Lenovos have two video chipsets)
Q)Poser or Daz Studio and why?
Poser. Though DAZlooks nice It's a little too confusing and the workflow is inconvienient for me. Besides I've been with Poser since version 4 and kept up with it's changes. I suppose I have to use my "Old grumpy guy Card." on this one.
Q) What renderer do you use? (Stock Poser or Daz or 3rd party) And what lead you to use it?
I use firefly. Depending on all the effects i want for an image it offers all the bells a whistles I need. I don't look for getting a "Real" look but one that is close. That way it helps suspend disbelief for my stories.
Q) Lighting seems to play a big part in your works, describe your process.
Lighting is a big deal. For me it allows for an intimacy for the viewer to kind enter the image and try to feel the emotions of the image and or in a way become a part of the image. For me I pose and prop and all that. Then I set the lighting for the added flavor of the mood. Most times it is the part that takes the longest to set up and tweak. More if i use Subsuface scattering and indirect lighting. I learned my lighting tricks in the theater growing up in Cleveland.
Q) what is your favorite work you’ve created?
I like to think they are all my favs. For each one is the sum total of all i know and understand at that time, or how i felt while doing it. I think it's the character I'm working with per image that drives the image.
Q) Is there any image you’ve made that you wish you didn’t? why?
Not really. There are some images I've done that i have never posted of displayed, but those were images that weren't up to my standard. I like to think people that like my work deserve my best, not mediocre.
Q) What is your favorite ‘style’ of art to create?
Stories are my favorite but as my current job as an Over the road truck driver makes that difficult. Now it's more like "Glimpses" of stories.
Q) Tell us about "Truck Stops..." and Faith
As an OTR driver one spends many nights alone in ones truck at night. Drivers like myself tend to just about live full time in the truck and it becomes our rolling apartment. At the end of a several hundred mile drive for the day with the same on tap for tomorrow the time not driving is the chance to relax and recharge. Faith is an extension of myself to a degree. While I'm not a woman, or a good looking one at that. I tend to look like a tired graying ex military guy that drives a lot. She does share my dedication to the job and the truck which is her home. Like me, She'll sit and watch trucks come in a park and watch even trieder and larger drivers shuffle by on the way to a shower or the only hot meal of the day. Though she may want some company she doesn't need it, as she's doing what she likes how she likes.
Q)) Out of all the various art mediums why 3D?
It allows me to create a character, shape them and figure them out as to their motivations and desires and then save them so i can use them over and over. Kinda like having a permanent ensemble cast that i can use for stories and simple images, or mood studies.
Q) What are your plans for the future?
Global domination by 2017, universal domination by 2020. Seriously, I plan to keep at this stuff untill I can no longer do it. It's a way for me to express feelings and thoughts and ideas that may not change a mind, but give a mind something to think about.
Q) You name many of your girls, where do you get the names from?
Mostly they tell me thier names as i create them. As I'm shaping or texturing the "Soul" of the character starts to reveal it's self and the things they like or don't. Many characters are 3d versions of AD&D or Traveller characters i played long ago or Non-player characters I used in game I ran.
Q) Tell us about " Another Dream of Scotti..."
Scota(Scotti) Keane-Rogers is a character that is meant to be very vague. She and her sister Tambra are very special in my fictional universe. Her dreams are far more than just the dreams you or I may have. She allows me to explore concepts that are the foundations of my understandings of how the universe works, or rather how it might work. I mean we have all had those dreams that felt "Too real". All of Scotti's dreams are like that and only her father seems to actually understand them and guides her to figure out how to best control her "Dreams"
Q) who are your favorite artists other than yourself?
There are almost too many to name. But some of them include Donna Waltz, KristinF, Rotex, Powerline, Jack Ketch,Shadoman, CaptainTripps for I have had the honor to work with and or watch their talent grow over the years.
Q) If someone reading this wants to start creating their own artwork what words of advice would you give them?
Get to it, make a million mistakes and figure out how to correct them and make the next million mistakes. There is ultimately only one person you have to please and that is yourself. Your art is yours and yours alone, it is your expression of how you see the world and the things in it. As you gain control over your talent and skill your artistic voice with become stronger and clearer. Other will see you images and some will get it while others won't. So long as you know what you meant is the key.
Q) Do you have a job outside of 3D or do you consider this your full time occupation?
I drive as a "Professional Commercial Motor vehicle operator." If art could pay rent and feed me regular I would gladly do it. But I would have to say in honestly I'm Semi-Pro as I do make some money as a premier artist and vendor in the store with a few props and some comics for sale.
Q) Speech time! any final words you have for your, fans and fellow 3D community?
Mostly a honest and sincere thanks to all that have supported me and my work over the years. Especially those that literally pulled my ass out of the fire from being homeless and job less. Without them (Especially KristinF) my art and I would have dissipated, never to be heard from again. To my Fans and followers I am truly humbled that you find my art worthy of being looked at and commented and purchased. To be able to say that I am published is a feeling that fills me with joy and accomplishment and makes it feel that my time and effort was not wasted.
