I believe that 3DMeNow is kaput.

They had a free version of the program. About all that it did was to create animated heads with moving lips and eyelids. The heads could be e-mailed to deliver messages.

If you wanted full .obj export capability, then you had to buy the $2000 version of 3DMeNow. Shortly before the company went belly-up, they were also working on a companion full-body creation program to go with the heads.

I checked into 3DMeNow -- and dismissed it as being too expensive for what you got.

Likewise, I dismiss FaceGen as being too expensive for what it does. I also don't like the fact that FaceGen requires you to upload your front & profile facial pictures to their own remote computer in order to generate heads. The program isn't "standalone". You can't just create heads on your own computer. This means that if Singular Inversions ever goes the way of 3DMeNow, then you'd simply be out the $1000 for the software modules needed to use it with Poser -- and with no ability to use the program for the intended purpose.

The intitial purchase price of the program grants you a limited number of "free" heads -- and then you have to start paying a fee per each head that you create.

None of this sounds like such a great deal to me.

On the other hand, if Singular Inversions were to lower the price for their software -- they might suddenly find themselves with lots of sales. The other issue would be to get rid of the per-head fee.....and simply enable users to create heads on their own, personal machines.

Message edited on: 11/29/2005 17:04

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