Dave opened this issue on May 04, 2006 ยท 69 posts
XFX3d posted Thu, 04 May 2006 at 5:23 PM
Sariel is a core mesh that Dodger (that's me, the XFX guy who's typing right now) is developing. However, to clarify: Sariel will NEVER be available to the general public, free or otherwise. You will not get Sariel. Sariel is being designed as a neuter mesh of as 'average' a shape as I can possibly get. I've done things like measure limb lengths and so on, and averaged them out, to figure the lengths to set Sariel's mesh at. There's a lot of thought going into it. And it's an IT for sure (though the default model will have female genitalia -- and that's simply because it's easier to pull that stuff OUT than to tuck it back in, at least to me). It also has slight (very slight) breasts -- not even quite an A-cup. It has a generally teeaged looking face with no particular ethnicity (depending on how you look at it you can see african, european, or asian features, but with none of the 'telltales' of any of them). Sariel will not be rigged or made into a Poser figure. Sariel is named after the Archangel Sariel, as a nod to both Michael and my Raphael Aeon Adolescent Boy (who was, behind the scenes, actually the first Aeon kid I meshed up, though not the first released, as I figured Anna would grab more attention, and I was right). That leaves one archangel. And that's where the stuff you guy swill get -- for free -- comes in. This is -- since you asked all nice -- the first announcement of clarifying the not-yet-done mystery which is Sariel and what it means: Two figures I shall make them, male and female, not in my own image because the male shall not want to suck in his gut every time the female walks by. First shall come the male, then the female. I was unsure which to release first before, but recent events have made me decide on the male. As a great and unholy raspberry from the cthonic depths. The DaVinci Figures they shall be, the DaVinci Man and DaVinci Woman (and when TG posted the bit about using the DaVinci Man as reference, I almost spit out my Diet Coke, verily). And yea, these names have been decided since 2003. The DaVinci Man shall be called Gabriel, the last of the archangels, and one of the more popular two, to balance with Michael in spirit. The DaVinci Woman shall be called Elizabeth, the name of which, along with Victoria, stands among the most famous and esteemed of British Queens. Ian McKellen Notwithstanding. From there, a new line of kids and mutants and elderly shall be created, names which are not yet decided. In some cases, they may be marked with the name of the Aeon figure which preceded them in spirit, in others, not. But they shall be divers and fun and creative and the mesh from whence they are formed shall be as clay of the earth in your Zbrush and sundry morphing programs. And they shall be, to a man, free. As free as the sun and sky, as distributable as the MP3s you deny having are not. And, as free things, I shall joyously partake in posting them in the Poser forum as one can only do when the things are so free. Verily I say this unto you. And so shall be the basic morphs built in to the figures. But yea, behold, the extended morph packs and clothing will not be free but merely rather cheap.
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