Y'know, I've used the same model mesh for six years now. I started using it because it was gosh darn cute but more importantly it did what I needed it to at the time, and since then it's performed beautifully, no matter what I throw at it:. I've learned all its quirks, rebuilt its rigging, created scores of textures for it, even modified the mesh to suit a particular project for a client.

And y'know why I'll stick with it? Because nothing better has come along since.

Now granted, my needs are more narrowly defined than most, but I'd be happy to see something new that can do what Impossibly Old Ichiro 1 does, with the same style and the same intelligent design. But I kinda doubt anything will.

Maybe that's a sign that it's time to move on from ever hoping as such. My purchases these days are mostly backgrounds and textures, with the occasional prop as I need for the occasional porject. But with my library, which now stands at over 210 gigs of highly organized stuff, there's just not a whole lot out there that does it better.

Just an observation.

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