After weeks of hard work and waiting and testing and poking and proding at her, Xie's been released to PoserPros! For $7.50 you, too, can have this authentic Asian girl for your renders. She comes with 3 head maps, (Base, Flawed and Lotus Blossom) as well as 3 corrisponding blink maps, 3 body maps (Base, Butterfly Tattoos and No Genitals) and 5 expression morphs for added versitility. She also comes with a seperately injecting epicanthic fold morph and a special blink morph (only to be used /when/ Xie is blinking)

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Ack, for some reason that last one got artifacted all to hell... Shame... :(

Attached Link: http://poserpros.com/store/viewitem.php?selitem=5135&start=0&selcat=0&selsub=-1

I guess it would help if I put up the URL. :D

She's an absolutely beautiful character. Wow!

All that hard work you put into her has really paid off! She is beautiful! :))

Very well done. Reminds me of the delicate, porcelain doll look of the Twelve Girls band (were they an inspiration for the creation of Xie?) It's in my shopping cart over at PoserPros

very beautiful character,wonderful job you did on her :0) The3dZone

blushes Thanks a lot. Actually, Xie's primary inspiration was a character by the same name I play on a MUSH. I wanted to do some portrait work of her, started messing with Poser, and one of my friends INSISTED that I sell the finished work, so I spent a month or so refining and retuning everything. Thanks for all the positive feedback! :)

The only lady who comes across as this realistically Asian-- as opposed to Eurasian-- is Bat's lovely Promo Girl and she's for V3. The work you have put into this really shows-- the prom shots at PPros are even clearer in how very Chinese this lady looks. Plus, as a dedicated SP3 fan, thank you for a fabulous new Steph beauty. By the way, that blink inj-- I use partial blinks alot, is it for that or for a completely or near completely closed eye? Emily

Emily, the blink morph simply alters the shape of the eye in such a fashion that when Xie's eyes are closed, her eyelid and eyelashes don't look freaky. It has a dial down near the bottom, when you inject it, and you can adjust the settings for whatever blink value you want. To make Xie's blink 'perfect' I use blink 1.0 and wince .5 so that the eyelid completely meets. blink .5 and wince .25 would also work with XieBlink at .5. Really, you only /need/ the blink morph when Xie's eyes are completely or nearly closed.

And yeah, I'm a huge S3 and David fan, myself and find myself frequently wishing they had more support. Which is not to say that I'm not a big V3 fan, I just prefer S3's build, as it's less... less bathing beauty and more real woman. Plus, S3's just got some better morphs in some cases than V3. I'm also one of those people who just gets irritated when I see yet another V3/S3 character that looks like a white girl with /yellow/ skin or is 'black' and doesn't have the correct mapwork done on the hands and feet. Different ethnicities really are shaped and built different than caucasians tend to be, at least in the facial region.

I was looking at this over at PoserPros. Very nice! Are there P5 MAT files?

Sorry, Randy, even though I have and use P5, I haven't gotten the hang of doing anything with the P5 material room beyond some very, very basic stuff. If you could give me some suggestions on tutorials that help to better explain it, I'm always trying to learn new things, and might be able to update some MAT files for her at a later date. :)

I wondered because in some of the images her skin looks shiny, as if skin shader nodes or a specular map was being used. But I'm not asking for fancy Material Room stuff. I'd be content if the bump maps are connected in the right place.

Actually, Xie doesn't use bump maps. I'm planning a low priced expansion pack at a later date that may include some bump maps, but due to size constraints, she's currently bumpless.

I created her in P5, though, so that could be why her skin occasionally looks shiney.

This image is postworked, a bit, mostly for lighting correction and to add the fire engine red lipstick. Someone challenged me to make Xie look... fetishy.

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Nice!!!

I got her! Great stuff. Now make an Asian male for David! :-)

Randy, that's the plan. I've already got a start on him, and this time I'm going to try and avoid David's morphs completely so that even those with just the base figure can enjoy him. Randy, I absolutely love seeing my creations come to life in artwork. Be sure to message me if you do any pictures with her? :D

This image? 0 postwork. None, nada, only cropping, which isn't really postwork. Credits: Xie, by me, obviously. :D The pants are the MND set from here for S3. Top is BatLab's belt bustier Boots are Gothic Couture at DAZ. Gloves are from the V3/S3 set. Reflection map by Digital Intoxication (I LOVE that reflection map!) Lights by the ever talented Danae, as is the BG Hair is Aery Short, with a color inspired by Serpentis. :)

ooo :D awesome work sweetheart. I love the purple! Purple and black are my favorite colors! XOXOXXOXO Sera

Great news that you're working on a male counterpart for Xie! (I wouldn't mind if he looked a little like [Garrett Wang](http://www.paris-kim.com/gallery/images/100a.jpg), ;-)

I made a P5 MAT file for Xie. You can download it here.

Of course, you can use it on any character. Aiko models it above.

I recommend this tutorial as an intro P5 materials, at least as applied to human skin.