Quote - Anyway, to steer the subject somewhat back on topic: how do your partners feel about you spending considerable amounts of time staring at, judging (sometimes very, very harshly), fixing, and morphing 3D nude models? In some forums, I've seen people (men and women, customers and business owners) compare it to porn (unless the figure doesn't have nipples or genitals, that is). I find that ridiculous. What I do find interesting is just how perfect many us expect our digital dolls to be.

In this very thread, some of the images posted were dismissed because the girl depicted wasn't the right sort of sexually attractive to some viewers.

Does a figure have to be "doable" to be usable?

 

No, it doesn't need to be doable to be usable, but considering what the majority of add-on content for female Poser figures consists of, it does need sex appeal to garner enough support and pull it from the clutches of niche. Maybe she just looks too young. Pumeco has already said he sees her as a "safe teen", which translates to "Barely Legal" and Timberwolf's renders - as nice as they may be - just furthers that image. 

With her clothes on she does look like a young teen - 15 to 16 at most. Could also be why I think she has a boy's body in her default pose, as many teens - male and female - are virtually indistinguishable in body shape. I'm 39. I don't see girls that age as attractive, I see them as children. Anything below about 25 is a child to me. I know myself that it doesn't take a lot to make her more feminine and adult looking, but you don't get that impression until you actually start working with her for a bit and building your own morphs, cause none of the morphs she comes with really do much. 

Presentation has a whole lot to do with appeal as well. Why are figures still loading in their default T-Pose? It takes 5 minutes to pose a figure in a natural, more human relaxed state to load in from the library. Leave the T-pose for the OBJ and the walk designer - that hardly anyone uses anyway. 

 

~Shane