poserpro, your getting confused between Tammy and Timmy, two different people here, although Timmy actually goes by Tim, (sorry). Mehndi is right, having worked in the store I too KNOW a lot of characters are certainly based on Daz/Zygote originalities. Very few, (in comparison to the membership base number on the forums), have the extreme talent of creating from scratch such as Anton does, although the numbers have certainly increased over time as more folks have learned and developed their skills. It IS a long process, (learning and creating), and probably why we do not get oodles of new stuff weekly even from Daz, quality takes time, even alterations of originals. Frankly speaking I am not so sure the ARTWORK we create using all these creations takes half as long as the making of all this stuff we use does, I guess in both realities it depends on the depth of the picture and/or the item in question ;-)