Audubon's Birthday Sale Saves Over 1,000 Birds
Another Audubon's Birthday sale is in the books and thanks to the support of all of you who participated in the sale, I was able to cut a check to Audubon Califronia to protect the unique and endangered, Tri-colored Blackbird. With that money, Audubon will buy grain harvests from farmers so that the birds nesting in the fields won't be harvested. For more information about
this species and
what you can do to help check out: http://ca.audubon.org/birds-0/tricolored-blackbirds.
I'll have two new products available at the start of the sale, Nature's Wonders Frogs and Songbird ReMix Flock Formations 2. Frogs will allow you to finally retire that 20+ year old stock Poser/Studio Frog model with something a lttle more state-of-the-art. Granted, some of you won't care about functioning Nictating Membranes (that's a protective film that allows frogs to see while swimming underwater) or a functioning tongue and throat air sac (yes, the old frog doesn't have any of those), but the top notch textures and the superior weight-mapped joint bending will have most skeptics cheering, "My Prince has arrived!".
This model comes with the California Red-legged Frog made famous by Mark Twain's story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and the European Common Frog who is believed to be the inspiration behind the Brothers Grimm story "The Frog Prince". The set comes in two versions; a Poser version that supports Firefly and Superfly rendering and a DAZ Studio version which supports 3Delight and Iray rendering.
While I've been all about frogs lately, it wouldn't be right if my Audubon's Birthday Celebration didn't have at least some sort of new bird item... Flock Formations2. It's a sequel to my popular prop-based groups of flying birds. This set will be ground based and include 6 types of bird; Finches, Pigeons, Geese, Sparrows, Sandpipers and Quail. Each bird in the prop has individual up/down positioning. Each prop also includes some morphs to vary the look/placement of the group as well as multiple materials to change the bird species.
Real Birds: Decades of Bird Protections are Disappearing
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