meltz opened this issue on Jan 30, 2013 · 14 posts
Photopium posted Fri, 01 March 2013 at 6:10 PM
I have no moral or personal objections to morphing anything into anything based on pictures from any source.
I'm sure that won't be a popular opinion, but no matter how close we get the final product, in pratice, will ultimately be unsatisfying to the user and unrecognizable as self to the one represented in polygons.
We sell likenesses in the marketplace without permission of the actual person or estate. We think we're clever because we're assigning a different name, but we all know what it's about.
I'll give you pictures of myself and my family, and if you want to morph us into obscene scenarios, be my guest. I'm not superstitious about it or precious about it. It's not us, and anyone could see that. It takes a very significant suspension of disbelief to think anything Poser (or Daz) generates looks like a real person in reality.
That said, and speaking as one, fanboys are never going to be happy with the likeness. I've been morphing the same met-model since I started this hobby and haven't really been happy with the result for longer than a few days.