It depends on whay I'm creating. My realistic renders using poser figures are mostly illustrations for books. I want the figures to be realistic, yet also pretty. I must agree with Basicwiz..... it is easy to turn a good looking figure into an ugly one, yet turning an 'ugly' figure into a beatiful one is hard, even too hard.

So, I use the statuesque beauty and turn into what I need. The down to earth ones cannot achieve this.

But... yes there's always but. If you look at Vicky, Genesis and Dawn base, they're not statuesque beauties at all. They can be morphed into statuesque beauty, but there base are prerry down to earth figures. Now the what we would consider down to earth figures, like roxie and so on, are not down to earth at all, they're just ugly. Seriously, some of the poser figures look like they've escaped from some kind of horror institution, looking so creepy you almost get nightmares. I'm not saying that's only the case with non-DAZ figures, anyone using DAZ kids knows they're very creepy as well. It just shows it is very hard to make figures for Poser and before you know you've created something creepy or ugly while going for down to earth.

Male figures don't seem to have this problem so much, at least they didn't used to have it. Dork, Don & James are very down to earth figures that are very easy to use and they look normal, although again morphing them away from there base look is a challenge. Simon is a bit harder to work with, he has this kind of secret agent look which is hard to get away from. The girls though have more problems, while Judy & Jessi are good to use, they border ugliness if you're not careful.

The newer native poser figures after these, male of female are just plain ugly in my opinion and no mather how much you morph them, they never break loose from it. I never use them, I go back to the older ones or go use V4/M4. Same goes for Antonia, imo, she's just not all that good. I do find My Michelle nice looking, but she doesn't offer me anything I don't have with V4 already and again, she has limited use.

So, I stick to V4/M4, Don, James, Jessi and Judy and depends what I need. These figures I can turn into anything from ugly, down to earth and pretty. All the other figures are too let's say particulair, but most of them I do find ugly or way to super model like. Poser included models have become uglier with every release, while Genesis seems to become more and versatile. Someone needs to create a good poser model that is versatile, people keep on releasing models that are too limited.

So, it's not really a matter of being down to earth or statuesque beauty, it's more a matter of being to recognizable model and getting away from the base look is too hard, That counts for some of the super model like figures as well as the ugly ones.

I know many cry for an average looking figure, but let's face it, we've got more then enough of them around, yet no one wants to use them, except for a few die hards. We all want to use the pretty ones :)

@booksbydavid..... none of your images comes even close to V4 at all. While they may seem attractive to you and who can argue with something being attractive, that's pure taste, they still aren't pretty. That's the whole thing.... a pretty girl is pretty for about everyone one, but a pretty girl will not be attractive for everyone. That are 2 different things. When it comes to being statuesque beauty, your images aren't even close, niether are the girls pretty as lot's of V4 images are, imo.

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