corleone1 opened this issue on Mar 23, 2008 · 160 posts
byAnton posted Wed, 26 March 2008 at 9:19 PM
Quote - Moving to the positive side of things...
Anton, you once spoke (IIRC) of doing a female counterpart for Apollo. Given the quality in that model, I can only imagine what the reaction would be were you to follow through with... Aphrodite? :-)
Have you given that any thought? You know the fan base would be salivating, and if anything were to give DAZ a run, it would be that.
Sorry bout that. I had to run upstairs.
Sean, I agree there would be a reaction. Have I given it though? Yes. Of course. :)
The problem is people don't want me to give Daz a run. They want me to show Daz how to improve their females. I learned that lesson with Apollo. V4 is so similar to Apollo in many ways, it will be interesting to see how M4 is not similar to Apollo.
I am one person. They are a company with legions of merchants who can quickly recreate, immitate, and reproduce anything I do for a female figure.
Right now I have no plans on doing one. I created Apollo as a non-bias alternative to the community, a quailty male for the gay community, and something everyone had always asked for. And for it, I got trolled, my WIP threads moved (yet recent ones by others aren't), immitated, insulted, with little more than a "well that's just healthy competition". And mostly from the very people I made Apollo for.
Apollo, 3 years later, still stands strong because of the quality people speak of. But that quality took over 6 months of devoted effor. Many people have been ever supportive of Apollo publically and privately; but mostly only when he became free.
I just don't know why, after everything that happened with Apollo, I would do another figure.
I will say, the vicousness in the gay community from those who begged for a male figure equal to any female, was the only thing that hurt my feelings. It was then I realized most people want Daz to make their figures; or me to show them how.
-Anton, creator of Apollo Maximus
"Conviction without truth is denial; Denial in the
face of truth is concealment."