Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Why do most asian characters NOT look asian?

Maxi_Rose opened this issue on Dec 20, 2005 ยท 66 posts


AlleyKatArt posted Tue, 20 December 2005 at 1:26 AM

Because, unfortunately, Daz3d doesn't provide realistic morphs for Asian characters. They don't have the epicanthic fold, they just give it a lick and a promise of it, which is why any good Asian character creator should include custom morphs to allow for more realism. When I made Xie and JieJie, I looked at real photos of Asian people from various areas, specifically China, as that's where they're 'from', and based my morphs off of /that/, not what the main company had created. Miki is the only female FIGURE that has been created as Asian, from the start, and people seem to want nothing more than to turn her into an Aryan white girl with blonde hair and blue eyes, while not actually changing her face shape. This is just as innacurate as using the 'Slant' dial and claiming it's Asian. Each race has features that are unique to their ethnicity. Those of Asian ancestry will not have the same face shape as those of European ancestry. Native Africans will not be a default V3 with a darker skin shader used. As in the picture I posted... The one on the left is JieJie /with/ the custom morph. The one on the right is without. You can see around the lacrimals that even with the various 'Asian' morphs making 1.0, the DAZ morphs don't even come close to making a lacrimal. That bit of shading is /texturing/ on my part.

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