bouncypig opened this issue on Aug 07, 2008 ยท 22 posts
momodot posted Fri, 08 August 2008 at 6:44 PM
Nice, my only comments may seem odd... I think club feet are less /expressive/ than feet where the toes form an arc... e.g. it is harder to see things like toes pointing in a jump or toes spreading. This is more an issue on the little guy I think. Next, I think you should build in spandex morphs and consider including a morph to round the underside of the pectorals. Then I think you might want grouping on the head for different kinds of masks and morphs for "masked" ears, nose and maybe even mouth. Grouping for hands and feet and a boot geometry switch for the feet would be cool. Finally... I think all Poser figures male and female should have genitals... integral body part that can be turned off rather than stick on... however, I hate multi part penis since a morph or two should be adequate for most use... or maybe just some a good bulge morph... Does any one ever pose these multi part penises anyway? I think morphs for tongue are better than possible too. I like the body handles for face control on the old Sarah 1 and I wonder if animators would like body handles for biceps, buttocks, and thighs... I know I would. I would consider a well oganized single map texture with proportional scaling of the different elements. Does anyone know if a single 4000x4000 texture is faster than four 1000x1000 textures? Could proper grouping permit purely procedural textures? When I was doing commercial toon work with Poser I use ambient rather than defuse for my textures and lights just for shadow. Last thing is proportional scaling linked to morph fix dials for sizing the hands feet and head for toon and maybe a smooth morph on the heads for people who want to work with non-distinctive features for building thier own characters... making a base head for a figure with distinctive features can be a real drag which is why although I love the expression on most toon figures for my work I chose the old V2 Shazam for both male and female figures since then they would not look like DAZ The GIRL or some other distinctive character. What I have wanted is really disproportioned figures like the ones in the Incredables but I suppose those are not good for most Poser users.