Quote - why not take teh time in your hyatus grab a cheap/free modeling app and learn to model if you do not know already...grab a cheap/free image manipulation software and learn to do it your self...basically the only thing that I buy any more are textures cause I cannot seem to be able to make a convinsing one, other then that I just see what I like and make my own.

I've been encouraging one of my friends to take up texturing because she is always complaining that so many characters look too 'real" with bumpy skin and blotches and moles etc. She likes the air-brushed, blemish-free, perfect looking skin textures and she doesn't think there are enough of those around.

So there are 2 halves of the coin. One half feels there is too much "blemish-free Barbies" and the other feels there isn't enough.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi