Quote - Compare Poser 4's Posette to:

Poser 5's Judy
Poser 6's Jessi
Poser 7's Sydney
Poser 8's Alyson

you can see the design and detail have greatly improved.

Judy was a tragedy. Like a car wreck at rush hour. The body was good enough, IMO better in some ways than many Poser models even since, but the face was... I dunno, not good. ;-)

Judy however could have been a great figure with some more work. There were all kinds of problems with the mesh in addition to simply not looking that great all over. Flipped polys, unwelded vertices and that sort of thing. Not to take anything away from whoever modeled it - I'm sure he or she was well aware of its shortcomings - but I blame Judy's end result as a decision by the Poser owners of the time to just get it out the door. Still though, they could have updated Judy with a better version, yet chose not to, which is a shame IMO because I liked Judy and thought with some work she could have been a real contender. I've been working on and off on "fixing" Judy in Modo for almost 2 years now, but I can't help but feel that's a wasted effort since I don't know how to make a model posable in Poser, and the mesh couldn't be redistributed to someone else to do the fixing to make her available for free or otherwise.

Jessi, IMO, was just all kinds of wrong. "She" looked alien, or somehow suffering from some sort of serious muscular/skeletal disease. That's not a stab at the modeler though, since it's obvious that whomever modeled Jessi had skills, but rather a stab at the design choices by the PTB  in Poserland at the time. Like they thought that maybe if they did their best to create the perfect anti-Victoria somehow it would sell better.

Sydney, Alyson... I dunno - they are what they are. Far better than I could do from scratch, so I have to have respect for the modelers and their abilities. Again, I'd guess their appearances were more dictated by the wants of The Suits as opposed to the artistic choices the modelers may have made if left alone and given as much time as they wanted. That's just a guess though.

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