Quote - Hi, the thing I’m waiting for is better non realistic characters – have you ever seen Pixar create an animation with photorealistic characters – no – and you don’t want to. Give us some characters that reflect the current world of animation. You watch the Incredibles, you say WOW, and then you go home and look a James for two minutes then close Poser. And no you can’t distort things in the face and figure, it just breaks when you animate. So why Isn’t Poser reflecting popular animation culture? If there’s a generic ‘character creation room’ that allows squash and stretch and will give me exaggerated oooo shapes on the mouth. Give me that and I’ll buy Poser in a second. I know people want realistic characters, probably for still images, but for animation there’s a reason Pixar do stylised characters – there more interesting to watch and you can bend the laws of physics. If there’s ever the day we have totally realistic 3D characters in movies (and it’s coming) that would bore the pants off me – I don’t want real when I go to an animation.

And some people want more realistic characters in animation.

Poser isn't a part of "popular animation culture", it's a 3D graphics program.

And I postulate that your idea of what's popular in animation is limited to what the US animation companies are producing for children, because that's the demographic that animation has been limited to by our society.

I've seen a Japanese anime series or two with extensive use of more realistic CG than you usually find here in the US, and even a movie that took the stylized look of regular anime and made it far more realistic, there was nothing boring about them, and they even broke the laws of physics.

You can have interesting, physics-ignoring 3D animated characters that are as detailed and realistic as a real human, by limiting what you think should be, you stifle the industry and quash potentially good ideas because they don't fit into your idea of what should be.

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