As I will probably be an eternal newbie at Poser, in the way that I almost never keep a picture I rendered because it doesn't satisfy me and I am always short on money (which makes me keep using the same old elements and a lot of freebies too) I am probably not the best judge in this... but ah well.
I have no hate whatsoever against Daz, here, but as I browse their catalog now and then, I cannot help but feeling they keep a very "smooth and generic" thinking of what 3d figures should be. It's like an excellent wine diluted in a large glass of water: the intent is there, but the sparkle, very often, is not. Let's look at the unimesh concept: one could say "yay this is great you can use morphs from that figure to that other, as well as textures" but one could also say that all of them unimesh family look like they came out from the same cloning tank. Also, the obssessive lack of anatomical accuracy in the genitals department feels a bit stupid nowadays; anyone can add a wing-wong on a Mike (thanks, Satanica) or a puss' on Vicky (thanks Arduino) but all in all, if Daz knows that omitting these parts of the characters is pointless, why doing so? Hypocrisy?
The "very original" and somehow refreshing products that I can see popping up in Daz catalogs, it seems, are mostly those designed by outside artists who adhere to Daz for the sale of some specific bits. The artists are sure not those from the "inside" it seems... and the fact Daz bought Poser Pros (a place with very decent products and a heap of good modellers and artists imho)shows that they know, indeed, tha without some new brains, well... their jacuzzi water's gonna turn tepid :)

There is no real reason why one should "hate" Daz I believe, but we can regret that they can't get much more inventive themselves, and just keep finding means of making once again more cash just out of a 1 000 000 th declination of the Unimesh.
No hate, no regret. And after all, we all love Poser so why bother stopping at hating anything :)

Message edited on: 07/20/2005 02:27