I am looking for a good Latin, Hispanic female. I have seen Visio's La Cubana, and I was just wondering if there were others out there to choose from.

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Regarding the link above - 32119, I didn't actually see any reference that she was supposed to be a Latina. Didn't find "hispanic" or "latina" when searching the page, but maybe the search function wasn't working right.

Oh....I get it now....you are looking for a Poserina, eh? You might want to try DAZ's International Beauties morph set (which I have) -- but it's pricey.

What do you mean with hispanic? Im from Spain. There are some differences between spanish faces and those you usually know as latin (over all latin-american). A typical hispanic woman have a european face, like classic "default" face but dark eyes and brown or black hair. Of course, you can find a lot of our arabian hereby (Spain was arabian for a lot of years). An a lot of blondes. But "hispanic" (from Hispania, Spain) havent a special face... nordic is more extreme, arabian is more extreme... we, like americans, are a mixture of different features... you see a typical spanish woman walking on the street and you cant determinate if really is hispanic, or italian, or french (crazy DAZ french morphs, mwhaha). Demi Moore would be hispanic. Catherine Zeta Jones also. Think in brunettes or blackheads

Acadia, your character is a beauty. But nor hispanic neither latin. These cheekbones are nordic. Too much for german. Would be a typical scandinavian But I know a girlfriend from Valencia with a high likeness with your model. All is relative...

"Blackheads?" They make products to help to deal with things like that........Clear-a-Sil, or some such. ;)

Mint has couple very hispanic looking ladies, One is Belle Michelle for V3 which has very beautiful outfit too http://market.renderosity.com/softgood.ez?ViewSoftgood=36284 and http://market.renderosity.com/softgood.ez?ViewSoftgood=21293 for v2, I like both looks

Chiquita is very cute, but if you whiten her up a little, you see she is still northern European, at least compared to the Latinas I see here (Alta California) every day. But like Casette says, it's difficult or impossible to narrow this down to one phenotype.

I've seen Latinas that were fair-skinned, blonde and blue-eyed. Frankly, "Latino" is an ethnicity, not strictly speaking a racial type.

PS - lest anyone forget, Spainards are Europeans, with some North African strains mixed in. I had the pleasure of briefly dating a beautiful Puerto Rican girl back in my college days. Brown eyes and light brown hair. She was as fair-skinned as I am -- perhaps just slightly more olive-complected. And my ancestors were Scotch-Irish.

I had this same problem. Looking for "latina". But then what sort? I mean there are differences depending on what is mixed with Spanish blood. Some of the Latinas of south of the USA have Indian blood in them and that gives a different cast then say a Puerto Rican. Check out the UZ texture and see if it is more to your taste. You have to imagine the hair.LOL BTW Catherine Zeta Jones is Welsh!

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In my opinion the best Latina texture is indeed the one by Morris that's part of the International Beauties set at DAZ ... you can buy it individually. It's gorgeous and "photoreal" whereas Chiquita has a more "painted" look (which I used to prefer.) I believe the reason it's the best is because it was created from photographs of an actual Latin woman. This will always yield more realistic results than simply toning a caucasian texture. You can buy the International Beauties textures individually ... you don't have to get the whole set.

There used to be another in the RMP called "Elena" that I liked very much, but it appears to have been removed. I don't know if the "Project Laura" texture for V2 is still available anywhere, but with a bit of toning and morphing that one can make realistically Latina characters as well.

xenophonz had written: "Frankly, "Latino" is an ethnicity, not strictly speaking a racial type."

I agree, although the definition varies depending upon who is claiming authority. :-) I don't consider myself Latino because I'm only 1/2 "Latin" but I have Mexican friends who insist that my Italian half makes me "Latino." I don't trip on the definitions too much. To me I'm just your typically American mixed-background mostly-Euro kinda guy.

For what it's worth, the word "Hispanic" is hotly contested by many American Latinos who in some cases find it offensive for only painting half the picture, if you will. As I understand this word was invented by the US Census Bureau during the Nixon years. Some argue that technically speaking, "Hispanic" people fall into the larger "Caucasian" grouping. Probably best to just respect how people self-define. :-)

Message edited on: 11/07/2005 20:53

sorry for the mix up. I'm from Florida, and we have a big Cuban population around here. so that's the look I was looking for. Thanks everyone for the help. Didn't mean to start up a racial debate. lol. :-p.

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Probably theres a mistake using the terms "hispanic" (from Spain, Europe) and "latin" calling the same thing. I use "hispanic" as european phenotype, althougt really spanish, french and italians are "latin" too. European phenotype is ... mmh... I cant explain... more "relaxed", more caucasican, special features less definied... really the "hispanic" type is very similar to... uh... (can I call it WASP type?) the typical american type (but with the difference here there are less blondes and redheads, less white skin, and more brunettes and black hair and soft tanned skin). But really is a different use of terms in each country. Spanish people dont use usually 'latino' word for us, but for spanish-america or brazilian people Seeing the examples ... Belle Michelle, passed (but may be a little north Europe, I would use her more for a french or a german than a hispanic girl); Chiquita fail, shes a cutie but looks like mexican, too much cheeckbones and dark skin for hispanic (but would be a perfect latina); SteffiZZ's Kelma is a pure cuban, no hispanic Some days ago here someone posted a curious experiment with hundred of faces composing caucasican phenotypes... well, take both male and female results, tan the skin a 25% more and you have a hispanic typical feature

MrSynnerster, racial debate is nice. We are a lot of people from a lot of different countries But honestly I prefer global mestization. Some day... :)

This is true. There is nothing wrong with Racial debate. Heck, I'm originally from South Carolina, and being a Southern black man, we get called everything from African American to Colored and everything in between, so we get kinda immune so to what we're called as long as it isn't the 'N' word. lol. So if I offended anyone by grouping Hispanic and Latin together, I apologize. but on a happy note, this has got to be the most responses I've had in a thread I started. lol. And thank everyone for their suggestions.

your looking for the " chicano" look kinda like selma hayak (hmm did i get the name right?) or rosie perez I remember someone did make a selma character now trying to remember where it is now therein lies a challenge :o) J

MrSynnerster, no offended :) Yum... Salma Hayek... she has a face more european. Rosie Perez is more "chicano" or "latina" look

Didn't I read someplace that Perez has Borrinque ancestors? The term "chicano" originated in the decades prior to the creation of the Movimiento Estudiant Chicano de Aztl AFAIK, and it is not used in Puerto Rico or New York, etc. It's a neologism resulting from the elision of the term "mexicano" (Mexican), where some pronounce the x in the old Nahuatl way.

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BTW, the creator of the latina morph states that it was made for Poser 5, but I've had no problem using it in Poser 4. My only issue with it is it doesn't show up in Morph Manager if you're trying to transfer it, but you can recreate the morph using Poser's "create morph" function and thus make it usable to pass from one figure to another through MM. Mike

That face shot of Raquel at 3D-Commune is pretty good, but when I clicked on the download link, it said "www.websamba.com could not be found". Maybe they have that somewhere else - in fact, I saw that in freestuff here some time ago. Yes, it was posted by twosheds, Oct. 18, 2004 ("X1 for V3" - A female Latino morph for V3). That link also appears to be dead.

oh man, how could I forget about X1. I downloaded her back when she first came out, and I guess I forgot about her. Thanks for the reminder egaeus.

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