Most figures with enough polygons in their face can be morphed in a dedicated morphing app.

I have morphs of the Poser 4 Dork that are prettier than most Vickys.

Most figures look more or less OK if just standing around and with a nice texture on them.

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But this is Poser. A hobbyist app for pople that can not morph from or texture from scratch.

They need a figure that looks good out of the box and/or comes with enough morphs to be adapted to whatever the customer needs.

They need a figure that can bend in a realistic manner, because a lot of time "standing around and looking pretty" won't do.

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So why I am so dead set against La Femme as the "Face" of Poser?

Here's why:

1. Her default shape looks very strange. I now "thighgap" is en vogue right now, but L'Femme looks almost like an alien.

Even though I am no friend of V4's strange triangular thigh shape, La Femmes looks even more unnatural.

They are almost twice as deep as they are wide!

Before I pose her, this is the number of JCM's that La Femme uses in her rig:

Shin: 2x3

Thigh: 2x8

Hip: 10

Waist: 10

Abdomen: 8

Chest: 16

Neck: 14

Collar: 2x8

Shoulder: 2x10

Remember: JCM's are bad. They complicate the cr2, they use up resources, they make cloth design harder.

They should only be used when absolutely necessary.

And this is the number of JCM's I used for my weightmapped copy of V417K shown above:

0

(Yes, ZERO)

So, let's see what we've got here:

First a full sidebend:

L'Femme shows a bulge on the inside of the thigh while V4WM's is nicely flat.

Then a half / half pose:

That's some nasty deformations La Femme develops here, despite her gazillon of JCM's. Ouch!

Now the piece de resistance. A full frontbend Yoga pose with legs crossed behind the head:

Remember that my V4WM does not use A SINGLE JCM to do this. Yet she looks way more natural even in this extreme pose.

Now Imagine how a professionally made and rigged Poser figure could bend!

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Well, are at least the expressions any good?

Well, here is La Femme's default smile:

Need I to say more? (And I haven't even mentioned her lack of proper mesh topology that makes detailed figure sculpts impossible)

L'Femme is not what I consider a quality figure. She's not even remotely suited to be the "Face of Poser".

Looking at her, I feel actually ashamed to call myself a Poser Artist.

If she'd be a freebie, I wouldn't even bother downloading her.

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I can respect the sheer effort and time it takes to create a Poser figure from scratch.

But she is so flawed that she is beyond fixing.

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I now some members here make it a point to "support" each and any figure that someone creates for Poser, come hell or high water.

This is fine and well, as long as these figures aren't supposed to represent Poser and entice new customers to pick up Poser as a tool for their hobby.

Accuse me of being "negative" all you want, but this relentless support of even the most flawed figures is a disservice to both Poser and this community.

This refusal to acknowledge that there IS a problem, is exactly what brought us in the position we are now in.

If we want Poser to survive, we need better figures.

MUCH better figures.

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But we'll never get them as long we settle for something like La Femme.

We deserve better than this.