meltz opened this issue on Jan 30, 2013 ยท 14 posts
Morkonan posted Thu, 28 February 2013 at 2:14 AM
Quote - Thanks Morkoron for the advice. It seems hard to learn and takes alot of time which i dont have. Would u take on the job if i give you her twitter name and you can conferm by talking to her there that it is ok to do? And if so what would the cost of this type of job be?
No, I wouldn't.
For quality work, you're talking about several hours of manual labor spent over a few days. It's up to the artist and what they think the value of their time happens to be.
Also, if it's being distributed to a third party (you), the final morph can not have used any of the native Poser V4 morphs or purchased morph packs without referencing them and requiring them to be used. In other words, the final product would have to be a combination of the morph settings used to get the basic shape being customized manually, requiring the end-user own V4++ morphs as well as the vertice changes created during the hand-made morph process. (Basically, you have to remember the settings of the V4++ morphs you used and back them out in the final product, reference that V4++ be used, and include the custom morph as well as the V4++ dialspins in the final morph pose.)
Though, if done entirely by hand without using any of the existing V4++ morphs as "helpers" to speed up the process, then that part isn't necessary and it can be distributed as a morph and even as an .obj file, as long as the deltas are all that is included and no actual geometry is present in the object.
What would you pay for all that work? A couple of hundred dollars from someone who values their time would be what I would think would be reasonable. (Maybe less, certainly not much more.) But, only if it produces a quality finished product. An up-front non-refundable deposit to compensate the artist for all the communication and setup work as well as coordinating reference image allocation would also be something that wouldn't be amiss, but it would be minimal.
Buy faceshop and get a reasonable facscimile that looks decent from about fifty meters away.. :D Or, do it yourself, by hand. It's not terribly difficult to create something reasonably recognizable, it just takes some practice.
Lastly - Do not expect to be able to duplicate a person's facial expressions by just using V4's native expresssions. A person's facial expressions are fairly unique and, to be honest, if you're trying to really duplicate someone's face, customized expressions would be highly desirable. "That certain something" that is missing in most customized heads is usually the characteristic facial expressions that we are used to seeing from that person. Everyone's got their own magic going on when it comes down to how they express their emotions. They don't all grin like they're high on drugs, like V4...