I agree that they should make a new character a bit more advance than V4 rather than remaking her. Not saying that she have run her cause, because that is simply not true, but as I have said before it depends what you need from a character.

And I don't really follow your point:

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V4 smiles are butt ugly, because she suffers from the DAZ-smile desease. Her upperlips don't strech when she smiles. We have the same V4 renders over and over in all galleries for 12 !!! years now. Move on, please.! Here I recreated a V4 gallery nightmare: [ugly Render.png]

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Nothing prevent you from creating a morph to deal with that, if you think its a problem, in fact as seen from the demonstration of that comic book, cant remember what its called now, you can completely change her to whatever you need. And what you are using as an example can be said with any character doesn't matter if its V4 or someone else. You will always be able to find things about them that might not be good or what you are after for a given character.

That people render her in such images that you use as an example, have nothing to do with her as a character. I think its a sort of narrow minded view, because what makes a good image or not, is not only the character, but composition, light & shadow, expression, mood etc. So even if you used a genesis character it would make no difference to whether an image is appealing to you or not. Now I would agree that if you take a character of very low quality it might ruin the image, if it doesn't match the rest of quality because it stands out to much. But V4 is no where near that in my opinion.

What it comes down to as I see it is actually a discussion of what is interesting art and what is not. Which is a personal taste, to me it comes down to primarily two things, technical and creativity. By technical I mean someone trying to do something for a given reason which is not especially to be creative or make something that have to mean a lot, but purely to test or show off technique. And then you have the creative part where you attempt to make your media be interesting and meaningful in whatever way. Which is what people that are referred to as artists do. Which could be modern art, people doing all thoughts of crazy things and call them art.

And to me an image like you posted above is not very interesting, but might be more of an technical thing for a person at given point. Like for instant in your image it might be that you were trying to match the background image with the character or something and it were your first attempt. Personally I would upload such image, because I think its to little if that were a technical test and I wouldn't upload it as "art" either, because I wouldn't know what the image were suppose to express. So I can see what you mean with your example. But again I think you are wrong blaming it on V4 or any other character, rather than your view on what you think people should upload as interesting art.