josterD opened this issue on Apr 27, 2010 · 99 posts
moriador posted Mon, 03 May 2010 at 11:22 PM
None of the figures available is truly fantastic, and all of them have problems. 3rd Generation Daz have macaroni shoulders that look disastrous, even morphed, without clothing. But their faces are lovely. Poser 6+ figures have better upper bodies, but the legs are weird and the faces are OOOGLY as sin itself. M4 still has problem shoulders but they're improved vastly, particularly with a few well placed morphs. But rendering several of him in a scene kills my machine. V4 has better shoulders, but they are narrow and even with tiny breasts she looks too well endowed to relax her arms at her sides because her chest is too wide for her narrow little shrugged shoulders. None of them has good legs, particularly in the hip joint, except Antonia, whose legs are the best I've seen. Apollo has a very natural but stocky looking body, but there's something weird about the eyes I can't get rid of no matter how hard I try.
So they all have pros and cons. In the end, then it's which works best for which scene. IE: I'd never use a 3rd generation Daz creation for a nude scene. Never. Urgh. But for a close up portrait. Yes!
The availability of supporting products is also a key factor.
In the end, though, I'm not sure, when it comes to midrange, multiple figures in a scene, that anyone has done better than M2 and V2. But the attempt to make figures that do everything for everyone looks like it's backfired. And It's kinda been downhill from there.
Edited to answer the OP's original question. It's a good one.
Poser figures are ugly out of the box. I hate to say it, but the market agrees. They're ugly. They just are. You have to fiddle for a long time before you get something that looks nice. And who wants to fiddle for a long time with something that starts off ugly unless you want it to end up ugly too?
Okay, a lot of people. But probably not most people. Particularly not impatient people. And poser users are going to include a lot of impatient people. I'm one of them. If I weren't impatient, I'd just draw the figures myself, after all.
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