Quote - I really dont care about the Poser vs DAZ thing. I warned people about that years ago, and no one listened. "DAZ wont abandon its base!" Uh huh, sure...

It's nice to see someone trying to go cross-platform. Honest, it is. However this genre has been pretty-girl'ed to death, folks. How many of these interchangable ladies do you really need? Sweet Jesus, enough already! By the time folks get through with this, she wont be any different from any of the countless others that preceded her. 

I'm sure she'll be amazing. But she'll also be visually predictable. And no amount of fancy, under-the-hood technology is going to change that. The renders of her will wind up looking like renders of the Vickies and Antonias and Stephanies and Barbies who preceded her.

It's just a shame that something radically new has to be wrapped up in the same tired persona.

 

You're entitled your opinion of course but i have to disagree. there was a difference between V1 & V2 even though they looked alike as you say. There was the same "Sameness" in the way V2 and V3 were used and yet they rendered and posed completely differently....each iteration getting the figure closer to a more realistic "look" for those who like rendering images of Naked Girls With Big Swords In A Ruin setting. It is called pin-up art or fetish art or erotic art or fantasy art or whatever and has been done for a very long time both with 3D figures or with regulay ink and paint and film. The genre will never die but the figures we use to create these images are nicely getting better as the applications allow us with no mesh creation skills, to use these 3d Barbies as you call them, to realize those fantasy images better.

I use V4 and still use V2 and though they still perform the same function for my images they are completely different looking when seen side by side. Offering a better model even if at first glance she looks like her predessors is a good thing as our work and understanding of the applications used, evolves so should our requirements for the model used. Think of it as a Model Call or Casting Call for a shoot. All the girls come in and try out but only a few make the grade for that particular shoot. SO it is with deciding from all those figures available which will make the grade for the final image. Nothing wrong with that.   :)