For everyday stuff I always gravitate back to Don Casual: compact mesh, clothes that a human might wear to King Soopers, and a very versatile face. I never unpacked M3 (just as I unpacked and then forgot about V3): they are both wa-a-a-ay too much trouble for the little return, a pair of vacuous, spa-buffed TV spokesmodels. They manage to make even normal clothes look like a costume they haven't had time to get used to. I'd be using James more if he were enough better than Don to warrant switching, and AM more if I could justify the investment in clothes or WW. I'd have to say my "favorite" male, in terms of appeal and usability, is Don, with M2 a close second. But then, my favorite females are Steph 2 and Jessi, and I like Judy.... M

Reading Warpo and Wolf359 comments... If you (and a lot of other people) hate with a passion the morph injection system and are accostumed to use Morph Manager anyway, why don't you just inject all the morphs in M3 or V3 and save a new Cr2 in the library. That way you would have complete models like M2 and V2 and you could throw away all the "support file bloathware" :) and with Poser 5 or 6 you could rearrange the morphs in groups too. I mean I don't have problem with the inject technology, but if I had this would be my solution. A quick solution too. That said I too don't like M3 injection or not... Anyway, I was just curious...

Have to throw a big vote in for Apollo Max. I've worked wih all these characters for my illustrations and Apollo is without a doubt the most morphable and flexible character, in terms of getting him to look like I want that is out there. Add to that the less bloat than a DAZ3 version character as Wolfie says and there really isn't a question. Apollo hasn't let me down yet.
-jay

Here's a current WIP...with apologies to the late a very great Grant Wood.

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randym77 - did you know that beth posted a hitoro for david freebie as a hitoro add-on? i know that's not as perfect as morphs made for him, but you might try it if you're willing to get hitoro or already own those morphs.

hiro with the realistic head morph if I'm doing a reality-based image ichiro if it's having some stylistic fun

Hiro is a cool figure. He's my second most used. bB

Male figures that I have but don't really use much : (1) Ichiro - would use him more if there was a realistic morph for him. (2) Senya - ditto, if there was a "skinny" morph for him (for those who don't know, Senya is a rather "large" slavic man). (3) Don - nearly as ugly as his wife Judy.

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if using a male, i go for the v3 male. M3, though there's clothes and textures for him, his shoulders just kill it for me. They are the most unnaturalistic rubber things i've ever seen. David's okay, more realistic, but not as flexible as the v3 male. To me the advantages of v3 male are the face injections, that the others just dont have! Nordic, celtic, french to name a few. No one really notices in a picture that the body under clothes is the same or not, but the face? LOL.... faces are very personal. The "dainty hands" which i can totally relate, i fix simply with ye ol dial of "scale", makes a big difference in scaling the hand and finger joints

Actually, I also have used V3 male on a number of projects. I use him when I was a slighly more feminine male, such as an elf, and it was a natural choice for the drag queen illustration I did on commission. bonni

Should I just add my Domus?

:^)

I have used very much M2 at the past but since I am working Domus 3 at the moment my only man is him!
I believe the reason people don't like Dork is his face, Domus will try to correct this...
Don is very nice figure and with Face room he can be quite attractive and different...

pitklad

Absolutely, pitklad ! .... your Domus is a great character and we look forward to Dom3. Thanks once again for your generosity in sharing your time and talent with us. The other thing that I have noticed about Dork is that there is not much variation in his body shape. (BTW what do you think about what stahlratte has done for Dork in post # 34 ?)

About Domus 3 body morphs, Rayera at posetteforever has offered some great body morphs for him and offcourse I'll make some before I release him...

I am also thinking about making a beta version so that anyone that wants can help improving Domus 3...

:^)

pitklad

I could be wrong, but aren't M3 and V3 only free through the remainder of 2005? I seem to recall the announcement letter from Daz stating something to that effect. ~E.D.