Quote - LOL, I could go with the old trope, 'they all look alike to me,' but obviously there are regional or 'sub-ethnic' variations that might or might not be especially discernible to the untrained Western eye. Whether that's any different from the challenge of making a single mesh be every person, I don't know. I simply wondered if a dedicated 'Asian' mesh would simplify the task of making a reasonably credible range of Asian ethnic types. If we are indeed stuck with needing a specific mesh for each ethnicity and sub-ethnicity, it seems like only one step from needing a custom mesh for each individual - though I'm sure that would make DAZ happy :-)

 

It would be nice if we could easily switch heads on a figure in poser.  Typically, the head does not interfere with the clothing, so the rigging and WM of the body would still work with the existing clothing.  But you could switch heads that are built for highly accurate ethnicities.

I think the variance in body types can reasonably be handled with rigging and morphs on a smaller set of meshes.  The face, though, is where much of the character lives.

This seems to be easily possible with the technology we already have.  Consider, it's the conforming clothing where most people have the massive investment in a figure.  But it's the face where the most variation in characters is.

 

Just thinking outloud...