Songbird ReMix Central
eNEWSLETTER                 www.empken.com/SongbirdReMix              January 2008


"Open Rendering Season" 2008 underway

The 2008 "Open Rendering Season" Contest started on January 1st and will be accepting entries through March 1st, 2008. Complete rules are available on Contest Page.  The Judge panel this year includes Garry George (a Board Member of Audubon California), Bob Gino (a prominent Los Angeles area gallery owner) and Kristen Black (a rock 'n' roll recording artist)

Yucatan to be Released by mid-January

Songbird ReMix Yucatan should be at DAZ's store any day now.  Comments for the beta-testers and DAZ personnel have been very favorable regarding Yucatan.

 

Songbird Remix Toucan Underway!

 The Toucan model is complete and all the morphs to create the various Toucan, Aracari and Toucanet species are being created.  The Toucan should be released in mid-February and will be a standalone Model similar to the SBRM Turkey.

SBRM Motherhood is planned for a March or April release.
 Toucan rough model

Proposed Toucan Species list

Endangerment Common Name Scientific Name Location
  Emerald Toucanet Aulacorhynchus prasinus Central America
  Guianan Toucanet Selenidera culik South America
  Fiery-billed Aracari Pteroglossus frantzii Central America
  Collared Aracari Pteroglossus torquatus torquatus Central America
  Keel-billed Toucan Ramphastos sulfuratus sulfuratus Central America
Vulnerable Plate-billed Mountain Toucan Andigena laminirostris South America
  Channel-billed Toucan Ramphastos vitellinus culminatus South America
  Toco Toucan Ramphastos toco South America

What's New in Downloads at SBRM Central

Updates will be coming-- I'm also working on revising all the old libraries to be default Poser 5+ and DAZ|Studio1.8+ compliant with the new, unreleased v3.0 cr2.  DAZ has requested that all these updates will submitted through their Q/A program and they will be providing the updates to purchasers.  I expect to have all of this done by March or April (it's a lot of work!).  I will try to add one or two freebies in before then-- they'll probably be female versions of some of the Yucatan birds.