2/22/08

The Victoria 4.2 Basic Morphs, Aiko 4 Basic Morphs, Morphs++, and Muscle Morphs can all be injected into the Morphia figure from DAZ. When injected together they offer a lot of possible combinations, and great diveristy. I suspect the creature morphs would also work.

pdxjims will soon be adding his Vittorio 4.2 morphs to the mix. Though designed as a male morph for V 4.2, many of these will be useful to alter female faces and bodies.

There are several free morphs to be found to fix one or another feature, and the Poser Morph Tool may also prove useful.

If you can develope skill at making bump and displacement maps, these can greatly alter the appearance of a character. Texture maps can also add the last bit of detail needed to complete the face you are trying to achieve.

I find the body morphs of VAiko 4.2 to be more limited than the face morphs. There is a leg length morph in the above combination I listed, but not a decent neck length, arm length or torso length moprh. Even a taller shorter body type morph would be helpful for variety. I would love to see an hourglass (chest/waist/hips) morph, a Reubenesque morph, and several other body types.

If one is going to use VAiko 4.2 as a male model, something will have to be done about the unrealistic chest. The pectoral/breast morphs do not produce a convincing man's chest. The depth (front to back width of the chest) can be changed and the height by exposing the Y/Z scale dials, but the width (X scale from one shoulder to the other) cannot be scaled without breaking the figure. The chest bigger morph should be called the gorilla morph. It just fails to look better than monsterous. So, no broad shouldered men or women. The definition, ribs, biceps, triceps, forearm, axilla, and abdominal morphs are also unrealistic.

The male faces that are possible are another matter altogether. I find the presently available morphs to be more than adequate to acheive a great variety of male, female, and androgenous faces. When enough cloths have been made/converted for the Mictoria/MAiko/Vittorio character, the flaws in body morphs will not matter, as he gets covered over with clothing.

I am sure some talented modelers will turn their attention to morph projects as soon as they feel that the model(s) has(have) evolved into a stable product(s).

LMK

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