It may be a good figure-but presentation is everything in the market. I don't know BT-although I have bought products from him- perhaps he would appreciate constructive criticism?

I had the same initial reaction as BB. And I do sometimes render in Lightwave. I also spent dozens of hours playing with SSS in Lightwave to get decent looking Skin, eyes, and teeth- so BB's SSS in Poser was a real timesaver-since my LW nodes (using SSS layered maps-had to be tweaked every time I changed the lighting).

 

Maybe I'm picky-but I would also hope someone at SM would suggest that buyers would feel more confident if the spelling was corrected- "Brast Small", "Brast Peark?"

I think you missed my point. Let me be more clear.

The promo images are terrible and look like they were made with Poser by a user who is ignorant of all manner of rendering technique.

Had the promos been rendered with one of those other awesome renderers and it looked great, then I would have said nothing.

Had the promos been rendered with one of those other awesome renderers and it looked like the shit it does, then I would say something, but probably not about EZ Skin.

Since the product is being advertised on SM's site, and even SM uses EZ Skin to generate shaders for Poser figure promos, it seemed logical to observe that it's really stupid, as in shooting yourself in the ass, to show a promo like that from Poser. I instantly dismissed the character as pointless, as a result, since its reason for existence is to take advantage of new Poser tech (read the text) yet it does not do so. How many other people would do the same?

 

It says in plain English and quite bold letters:

character base Rio for P9 & 2012

Doesn't get any more explicit than that. Yet it looks like Poser 4. The bends are shit. The skin is shit.