Quote - In all honesty, Miki 3 looks less oriental than Miki 1 & 2.

The illustrations, at the link, point out that the joints don't seem to be very much improved. The jumping image shows jutting knees and elbows with other images showing overexaggerated creases on the inner elbow. The fingers look unnatural in the patio image. The smile looks unnatural and awful.

More skilled artists should be able to produce better demo images, without retouching, than are shown on SM's official site.

Some of the facial expressions look good, but overall, the promotional images are unimpressive. Whatever advancements have been made with Miki 3 aren't on display.

 

Ouch. I thought I'd done a decent job. 

I agree the patio image looks a little forced. I was having a rendering issue on that image with my camera interpenetrating a foreground stone column. It hung forever trying to render the inside of the column. It took me a while to figure out what was happening in the scene, and I ran short of time. But looking at the photobooth images, you can see that she is very expressive.

I went to your gallery to check out some sample images for good hand poses to reference - it's hard to pose all those joints...

Thanks for the feedback - I miss art school for the portfolio reviews. They were brutal sometimes, but useful.