duanemoody posted at 2:10PM Fri, 08 February 2019 - #4345621

Based on watching the render community for the last 20 years, the priorities for a new figure's commercial success are as follows:

• Is it free/bundled with the application
• Is there sufficient character/clothing/pose/other accessory content for it at release time, is there a consistent push of figure-specific content afterward
• Will it pose and render quickly with midgrade hardware specs
• Does it pose/do expressions naturally, does its default face not frighten children and how morphable is its mesh
• Can I easily swap in custom male/female genitalia (regardless of the figure's gender) – this last one is unfortunately a dealbreaker for a lot of 3DX commercial artists

I would strongly suggest that Rendo immediately start courting character sculptors here like Maddelirium, Sangriart, Vykhtoria, banhsua, 3DSublimeProductions, TwiztedMetal, Sabby/Seven, Freja, 3DA, LUNA3D, -Valkyrie-, and every top selling character vendor whose name I overlooked. Rendo has the stats on that, I don't. People are not in general going to develop their own characters and would much rather purchase them. The more breadth of character devs, character types facial and body-wise, the better.

And Danae! The only V4 characters I miss are Danae's London/Paris sets and Blackhearted's.