Why are the heads so small? Is small-headedness a fantasy for some artists, too?

Sort of. I think that's just American (perhaps Western in general?) artistic convention. We tend to idealize tall people. The average American woman may be 5'-4", but the average fashion model is much taller. Tall = beautiful. And tall people have relatively small heads compared to their bodies.

This is something that many people, even many artists, don't really notice. It's one of our stylistic tics. We can easily see the stylistic tics of other times/cultures. The almost unisex look of the Egyptian ideal, the highly exaggerated look of a kabuki play or a Mayan carving. But our own stylistic tics are somewhat invisible to us. We know that the girl next door is not a 6' foot tall Amazon pinhead. But in art, that's usually what we see. The models in ads are taller than normal, and wear high-heels to boot. The standard in fashion illustration, comic books, etc., is really tall with especially long legs - and a relatively small head.

People blame DAZ for making pinhead figures that have "brainwashed" Poser users. IMO, it's the opposite. Our whole culture is so used to elongated figures in our art that if DAZ really made Vicky an average woman, she'd be rejected as too weird-looking. Message edited on: 07/03/2005 22:15