Horse Statue

Simple Horse Statue

We start with the free Millineum Horse from DAZ   Millineum Horse

I see it says $6.95, but at the top of the initial page it says free for platinum club members or with any purchase.

If you are on a tight budget, like me, the Platinum Club is an essential.  Since I don't know much about what I am doing, the really big models often overwhelm.  The PC has thousands of models, hair, poses, ... for $2 or $3.  I think it is essential.  Most of the models, and modifiers, I have come from these items.  You could say that I now have piles of the wrong stuff, and that is true, but I am learning for $2 each instead of $40 each.  Many of the expensive items are a major boost to good work, but many also don't fit my goals.  You may benefit from the same approach.

Load the horse.  It will be under poser format->( your library name )->figures->DAZ Animals

default horse

This model has an amazing number of parameters.

Be sure to click All to see them.  They are not grouped under a heading, so if you click general, etc.  You won't see them.

First you can choose from a number of breeds.( To use the breeds set one of them to 1.0 and the rest to 0.0 unless you want to create your own blend.)

Thoroughbred

Arabian

Donkey

Shetland

Let's go with

 Mustang

There are some problems with the tail and mane.  There are a lot of tail parameters, but the didn't seem to work.  To get the tail first we have to go to surfaces and up its opacity.

Wow, that's a lot of tail.

There is a tail length parameter.  -0.50  looked right.

The mane is a little more complex.  There are three manes  ManeLeft, ManeRight, and ManeUp.  Setting opacity to 100% percent didn't do anything for ManeRight, or ManeUp.  ManeLeft was huge and confusing.  There are "Gone" parameters for the Manes.  I went with ManeLGone at 0.0 and the others at 1.0 which gave me a mane on the left.  Not great, but visible.  Let's fine tune the tail and mane after we get a pose.

look in poses->DAZ's Mil Horse

I like Walk for a statue.

After tweaking the mane and tail, here is where I wound up.

Some tips.  Unless you want a draft horse you want the fetlocks gone and invisible.  I couldn't find a setting I liked for the forelocks, so I made them gone and invisible as well.

Now for a base.  Create a cube  I made it 3 m with 10 divisions.

Working from the left and top views scale and translate until you have a good base

Rename the cube to base and group with the horse into a group called ceramicHorseStatue.  Scale that group 10%  and save as a scene subset.  This is now a table top size (20 cm  about 8" tall) statue.

Control-Z to remove the scale change.

Create another cube like before.  Click on the first cube we renamed base then press Control-C to copy settings.  Click on the new cube2 and press Control-V to transfer settings.  Using the top view align this new base exactly like the first one.  Then scale 110% switch view and Y translate it down until it is almost completely below the base, but still has a small overlap.  Rename it to step1

Repeat this and make a step2. Y scale the base until it is now 70% instead of about 6%. Y translate the horse until it is on top of this new structure.

The best way to change the textures now is with a stone shader.

Here is a free set at sharecg.com    free stone shaders

For $2 we can get much better results with