Well, my bottom line is that the texture is too expensive for me to purchase yet another blond. I don't know Anna-Marie Goddard and neither her profession or her personality are of great interest to me when I'm trying to decide whether or not to buy a texture. The professionals can deal with EULA problems....my only issue is how I invest my money for my hobby, and I already have enough pale skins in my collection (I am a pale skin myself so this isn't because I don't appreciate the trend...just that I don't need more). Too much to pay for the fad of the week.

I think there will be more personalities going virtual, but I don't know that it's necessarily going to be a good thing for people already complaining about the lack of creativity and imagination in 3D. Some of us (I'm guilty) seem unable to break out of imitation of each other, movies, television and comics and it is a constant refrain here (where can I get Buffy and Spike, where can I get a Star Trek imitation, where can I get a Matrix coat, where can I find a Stars Wars hairdo). The people who originally came up with Star Trek and the Matrix and Stars Wars were creative...everyone else is just making copies to make up for a lack of originality. And so it seems like an inevitable trend. The Keneau texture will probably be very pricey...and I won't buy him either.

What mainly results is that some of us run out and buy up the latest craze, get bored with our toys, and look for something else to spend our money on the next week. There are worst ways to play. I've no problem with it as long as we don't fool ourselves into thinking we're breaking new ground.

There is a great little hot dog cart up on DAZ now that I am really attracted to. So even though other people will buy it, I'm going to get one too. Just because I can't imagine doing the job better myself. So I'm not prejudiced against the practice. I don't model or do textures so I am dependent on the imagination of others. But I'm not going to fool myself into thinking I'm being particularly creative by buying someone else's creation and playing with someone else's toys. I know the real originality is elsewhere and not in me.

And there are some very original people here. I don't know that they are using Anna-Marie Goddard textures. I don't know that they aren't. It doesn't much matter to me because, frankly, pin-ups bore me and that seems to be the main reason for getting this texture. You have the money to toss at her, more power to you. I don't. That's okay too. Different strokes for different folks.

Oh well. It's a holiday weekend for me. Hope you all have a good one. I'm getting off this thread now.