I do like your approach and I hope users respect that.  While I would like the figure soon, like yesterday, I am thankful that you are prepared to share your hard work at some point.  Clearly the project has it origins firmly in providing a figure that met your needs, which nobody should fault, but of course a lot of people will have similar needs, me included. I understand your disappointment with Dawn, which I still think could be a good figure but it did not live up to the hype on day one.  I was even more disappointed because I wanted the Hivewire team to be successful, and I still do.  Good news is they appear to be here for the long haul.

I have never used any figure for what you could call pornography, although every persons opinion of what is pornography is very different.  On the other hand I have purchased from Rendererotica so clearly such things do not bother me so the fact she is complete is not an issue for me.

As to the way she is built, well to be honest I am not that bothered or skillful enough to know what is good or bad.  What I want is a figure that look right and is good enough to use for art and portrait work.  I am not saying I do not appreciate the hard work you are putting in, more making the point I will adopt a figure because it gives me the renders I want not because someone says it has the latest technology.

I really do respect your view of not having money as the prime motivation but I am still happy to pay for this figure and I am also happy to wait until you are satisfied she is ready to meet her public.

thanks hornet!  Just for the record, my frustration with Dawn wasn't that it was a bad figure, but that it was yet another figure that needed a load of work before I could consider it useful. Her base mesh was fairly decent and her rigging wasn't bad at all, in fact I learned a few things from her. So you could say I was more frustrated that I was dependent on other figures (and that people were hoping I'd make gens for a figure with 5 polygons in the respective area lol). So yeah, it wasn't that bad, but I realized I needed to shut up and make my own.

Don't worry I'm not bothered with what people would wanna do with her. If you can use her, well great! I kindof hope that it will inspire people to delve deeper into CG art and perhaps come with their own figures and innovations. 

Anyway, let me first finish her lol!

thanks again :)

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