People probably want knock-offs and look-alikes. It's already been said here that people like to watch a movie and then try to render a scene from the movie. Gawd knows why, but they really do.

I used to visit the Daz3d site when I was a platinum member years ago, and I noticed their releases seemed timed perfectly with those of Hollywood. Very shortly after that the galleries were inevitably inundated with thematic renders of recent product.

I think the last time I even considered rejoining the PC club was when the forums/galleries were filled with dying Aslans. That changed my mind in a hurry. It was almost enough to make me lose my breakfast. I prefer Rendo's endless stream of latex hooker/pornstars, frankly. But I suspect it's exactly the same impulse driving both markets, each just servicing a somewhat different demographic.

Not that I'm immune. My favourite Daz clothing, by far, was the SP3 set "Celeste." I don't know why. But I made quite a few renders before the origin of the design for that set ever dawned on me.

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PoserPro 2014, PS CS5.5 Ext, Nikon D300. Win 8, i7-4770 @ 3.4 GHz, AMD Radeon 8570, 12 GB RAM.