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I disagree. I find the face too pre-defined as well as the body shape and is not neutral enough. You need to do some work to eliminate that Dawn look before you can start your character. A true blank canvas love it or hate it is the infamous "grey Blob". Also I do not like the topology flow of Dawn in a lot of places. It is not as flexable as the "blobs" base, therefor is more of a canvas with a few scribbles already drawn on. I tried to like the Dawn base, but honestly I just can't find a viable reason as to why I should. There is no real market for her. Definately not in Daz, and only available to those who have the latest versions of Poser, and thats no guarentee that even they will use her. Take that all into account, and that is a really small market. Sure she tries to represent some healing factor, but how does that translate to profits? That is what it is all about, because profits determine vendor support, and lately if you look at the stores, looks like V4 is still more profitable, and Dawn has fallen to the shadows like all other 3rd party characters. It's not what people want to hear, but its the truth. Just look around. Hivewire failed to capatilize on the hype, and I feel its to little and to late now to change anything really. Not to say she is going anywhere, but she wont become that forefront figure. For Poser, that figure is V4. Antonia is it, Roxie is it, Dawn is it. Heard it all before, and end of the day V4 continues to smile, knowing she is it.  Also with additional enhancements like alphaseeds WM version, adds to her lifespan.

 

The vendors who are supporting Dawn are the ones who know whether she's actually being used or not. 

Assuming Poser continues to be developed, there will eventually come a point where V4 is no longer useable in it and will have to be relpaced by something. That's likely not going to happen for a while, but it will happen. 

 

Apologies for the color of the previous post. I was trying to get it to look right in preview, due to the on-going reworkings of the forum design. Tried to change it but time expired.

 

~Shane