"i am considering buying her, but won't until I am committed to taking on the boning and building of morph targets."

Opera, if you had 3dsmax and used it for animation, I'd say go for it. It's a very nicely modeled figure, it's already rigged in Character Studio (big plus), it comes complete with some morphs and clothes, and it's a relatively "light" mesh, with room to add a couple iterations of meshsmooth to it for higher detail and smoothness, etc. The price is VERY reasonable, considering it would be far more unique and versatile than many of the characters available for Poser, since not many people would own it, and you would be making most of your own morphs for it (which no one else would have) based on a different topology than the plethora of millenium/unimesh characters out there. Something like that is best used natively in Max, because it already takes advantage of Character Studio's biped and advanced physique modifier, weight mapping, etc. Basically, it's rig is just far more intricate than what you can do in the setup room in Poser, so it's going to work best in Max.

That said, bringing this model into Poser isn't going to be any better than using any of the other models available already. In fact, it would be MUCH more work when you have to completely re-rig it for Poser, and unless you're very good at setting up Poser's joint zones, it's not going to bend, animate, or pose any better than what's out there now.

Bottom line: With all that's out there for native Poser figures (and 3rd party figures from DAZ and Sixus1), I think it would be a poor investment, at that price, if all you were buying it for was to use it in Poser. I don't think you'd get any more satisfaction out of it than you get already from EJ or something like the lo-res V3, but that's just one man's opinion.

;-) Message edited on: 02/10/2005 11:59

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