AmbientShade

There's nothing that prevents any artist or team from creating and marketing their own figures, for whatever program they want it to work in. If the quality is there, then there will be a customer base for it.

There's nothing stopping teams from making figures, but the issue is those smaller teams can only create so much content and content is king.  The reason daz can create successful figures is partly because they have the connections to get enough vendors to support their newest work.  A lot of vendors just won't make 1-3 items for a 3rd party effort that hasn't been released.  Daz can get that critical mass together.  That's why I think it would take something like Rpublishing or all of RNDA working together to get a new figure off the ground successfully.

WARK!

Thus Spoketh Winterclaw: a blog about a Winterclaw who speaks from time to time.

 

(using Poser Pro 2014 SR3, on 64 bit Win 7, poser units are inches.)