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Subject: Why aren't 3d figures more racially diverse?


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ssgbryan ( ) posted Sun, 28 September 2014 at 1:26 AM · edited Sun, 28 September 2014 at 1:27 AM

Quote - One thing I've found is that there are quite a few textures with a mid-dark range skin tone suitable for Asians, Middle Easterners, Indians, Native Americans, and so forth--but so many of them have brown eyebrows, which is something you won't find on Native Americans and rarely find on Asians. There are several textures that are decent for use for Native Americans for V4 (Yaana being my favorite), but there is pretty much a grand total of one for M4 (Falcon). :( The Poserverse needs more true black-haired skins. :/

OTOH, there are a whole lot of Caucasians that have black eyebrows, armpit hair and crotch hair - but have light brown chest, arm & leg hair.  Not to mention the fact that a lot of ethnic characters will have blue, grey, green & light brown eyes, but won't have black eyes.

The lack of attention to detail is very annoying.........



Zaarin ( ) posted Sun, 28 September 2014 at 9:33 AM

Quote - > Quote - One thing I've found is that there are quite a few textures with a mid-dark range skin tone suitable for Asians, Middle Easterners, Indians, Native Americans, and so forth--but so many of them have brown eyebrows, which is something you won't find on Native Americans and rarely find on Asians. There are several textures that are decent for use for Native Americans for V4 (Yaana being my favorite), but there is pretty much a grand total of one for M4 (Falcon). :( The Poserverse needs more true black-haired skins. :/

OTOH, there are a whole lot of Caucasians that have black eyebrows, armpit hair and crotch hair - but have light brown chest, arm & leg hair.  Not to mention the fact that a lot of ethnic characters will have blue, grey, green & light brown eyes, but won't have black eyes.

The lack of attention to detail is very annoying.........

Eyes aren't so much a problem as I tend to use V4 Elite: Natasha's or Reby Sky's, and PDEyes also have some nice dark eyes as well. I actually wish I could find more high quality green and grey eyes and really saturated realistic blue eyes. 


wolf359 ( ) posted Mon, 29 September 2014 at 10:37 AM · edited Mon, 29 September 2014 at 10:40 AM

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**"OTOH, there are a whole lot of Caucasians that have black eyebrows, armpit hair and crotch hair - but have light brown chest, arm & leg hair.  Not to mention the fact that a lot of ethnic characters will have blue, grey, green & light brown eyes, but won't have black eyes.**

The lack of attention to detail is very annoying........."

This Lack of detail you mention IMHO is more a lack of variety, that is based on the assumption in the poser market, that anyone looking for a black male CG Character is looking for a native "African" look

look at the American Chief of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson (attached pic)

 

 

....or even my own case where I have
black (now greying& balding)head hair.

naturally cinnamin brown facial hair with natural blond highlights and green /brown hazel eyes.

this kind of "ethnic"variety will only be achieved by learning to customize the figures yourself IMO.



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EClark1894 ( ) posted Mon, 29 September 2014 at 12:24 PM

Attached Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nioio-r47k

> Quote - **"OTOH, there are a whole lot of Caucasians that have black eyebrows, armpit hair and crotch hair - but have light brown chest, arm & leg hair.  Not to mention the fact that a lot of ethnic characters will have blue, grey, green & light brown eyes, but won't have black eyes.** > > **The lack of attention to detail is very annoying........."** > > This Lack of detail you mention IMHO is more a lack of variety, that is based on the assumption in the poser market, that anyone looking for a black male CG Character is looking for a native "African" look > > look at the American Chief of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson **(attached pic)** > >   > >   > > ....or even my own case where I have > black *(now greying& balding)*![](http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/art/emoticons/mad.gif)head hair. > > naturally cinnamin brown facial hair with natural blond highlights and green /brown hazel eyes. > > > this kind of "ethnic"variety will only be achieved by learning to customize the figures yourself IMO.

How about we call it a draw and say you're both right. It's something I first noticed with the Olivia and Kelvin native figures. It's amazing how many black people I know, relatives and friends, that those two look like with just some simple hair style changes and make up. And check out the video link included. It's meant to be funny, but I couldn't help think about Poser figures while watching it.




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