...get in this situation? I went to bed the hot stud on the block, and I woke up BEING the new stud on the block! Just a bit of fun. I won $500 on Video Poker last night, and finally bought the Ichiro-Taur. Played a little with his hip in the Setup room, and made a conforming figure for M3. I know it looks like a cartoon horse, but hey. I got it to fit! That's something (grin)! I REALLY like the way the Ichiro-Taur is designed to conform. I wish someone would redo the Daz Charger to reflect the same kind of internal structure and make it fit the Millenium characters. I'd be happy to pay $25 for something like that, especially if I can use all those Charger textures I've got.

How perfect with Halloween coming soon! Diane

CONGRATS on your win!

Good job. And boy, am I jealous. $500 would buy a lot of Poser stuff. ;-) I agree with you on the charger. I'd pay for a conforming Charger-type figure that let you make Mike and Vicky into realistic centaurs.

Hehe looks good.Nice blend you did between horse and human figure at the hip.

me too, $500 could get a lot of poser stuff hummm lol Congrats! he looks handsome! --Essie

Congratulations on your win! I have yet to see a decent centaur model for Poser. None of them male or female, have a balanced relationship between horse and human parts. The cartoony ones can get away with it. Anything realistic will have to be considered from the internal structure (how to align and merge the spines!) as well as the size of the parts. I think it should be made from scratch, and not melded. Carolly

I wouldn't be surprised hint, hint if DAZ already had someone working on something like that, based on the Unimesh figures... ;)

Not to rain on the parade, but asking for centaur figures that look "realistic" is kinda, well, unrealistic. After all, of the various mythical beasties, the centaur is unique in that it violates skeletal structure. The human pelvis has to somehow blend with the horse shoulder and collarbone, and you end up with two torsos. What's more, the horse head is replaced by 100-150 pounds of meat and bone with a multiplier of flexibility and too many vertebrae. "Real" centaurs look to me as if the guy part is about to fall on its face, because the center of gravity for the torso is too far forward on the horse shoulders. To create a "real" centaur, you have to decide whether the joint is a hip with an elaborate tail sticking out behind (in other words, the front legs are the guy legs) or a collar with a complicated head attached. In static one-off art (The Battle with the Centaurs), this is not such a big problem, because you just solve the balance and engineering issues "one centaur at a time." But the bones and joints have to be generalized and malleable in a Poser fig. The cartoon solution (with a bow to Disney) is easy compared to the "realistic" problems. I'll be curious to see what someone comes up with.