EldritchCellar posted at 5:06PM Fri, 15 January 2016 - #4247902

That's Lucas, he's been in development for about 5 years I guess (sorry ambientshade, he has). I've always been puzzled why ambientshade (formerly ExistentialDisorder) hasn't hastened to finish the guy... there was quite an interest in the community when he was modeling the first version. There's a thread about him buried somewhere round here. Perhaps best he waited though, in light of the rigging advances that have come along since. I think that dress/outfit model is really nice and should also be a priority for target Poser/DS.

Just under 4 years, actually. And most of that time has been spent working on other paying projects that didn't allow me to focus on him. It's not easy building a human figure from scratch especially when you also have to figure out the intricacies of the software that are not documented anywhere and scour websites and forums looking for the answers to specific questions on how to work around various obscure bugs and oddities (the user manual for poser is very rudimentary and barely touches on any of its rigging features at any length. At best its an overview). Plus I didn't want to rush it and wind up putting yet another substandard figure out there that no one would use as that's just a waste of time and energy, especially considering how little attention non-daz figures get from the community no matter how good they are, so I've gone back and forth a lot trying to sort out whether I even wanted to finish them. But that's also why I started posting progress shots on tumblr to see if it gained any traction. I've also been working on his female counterpart along the way, and both of them have been through a number of resculpts, re-rigs, etc, so they aren't even really the same figure as before. I figured it's best to finish the female first, since they always get the most attention.