Quote - Time to get serious again.....

I think it's both. Sex sell and seems especially true of Poser when it comes to recent years. One only has to look at DAZ to see that. DAZ used to be quite decent in what they sold, a few years back they even portrayed themselves as being family friendly. If you look up the older content at DAZ and the recent content, you will quickly notice how much more sex orientated DAZ has become.

But the second one is true also. It's a lot easier to conform skimpy clothes then it is to do fully modeled clothes. Having modeled some clothing items, I do find that the less skin the clothing covers the better and easier it will conform.

Basically you do less work, less chance of errors, but more sales. It's as easy at that.

But, I'd like to add an option number 3.........

The majority of the content creators have lost creatiity, everyone is copying someone else. That's even from personal experiecne...... I'm trying to create original products, something new or at least different then the rest, it's though at times.. But what I see is that with a few of my products, just a few months later someone else releases something that looks ver very familiar to me, it's a copy of what I've created. Not at the same store, but at a different one people release copies of what already has been done by someone else.

To me it seems that a lot of content creators do not have any originality at all, they can only copy what others have done before. Alter it a little, but close enough to see it's a copy.......

Plagarism is one of those things we have to live with I guess, much like the high street everyone is looking at what everyone else is selling (whats hot) and doing their own version of it.  After all you can't really copyright a skirt or whatever.  If you do bother to put a bit of design thought into yout work then as soon as it is released the design is more or less public property, even if your product is not.

The only thing you can do is maintain your integrity and keep on being a designer creater, instead of being a robotic factory shelling out knock offs.

They sad thing is that the buying community will end up having less of a choice, that choice boiling down to which merchant do I buy it off?

John.

Fugazi (without the aid of a safety net)

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