Coming soon to Free Stuff: 'Colin' for the P4 boy- morph, texture, bump and transparency (the hair, however, is from Daz and won't be included). This has to be the most ambitious project I've attempted for Poser so far! I'm hoping to include a fit morph for Mike hairstyles, and a sticking-out-ears morph (both still in progress, as you can see from the images). While I'm finishing the morphs and packing the whole thing up, is there anything else people would like to see included? Expression morphs? Pose files to apply the maps (if I can figure out how to do that)?

He looks marvelous - and the way you show up the differences between him and the default in your pic here is keen. Expression files are good but MAT files to apply maps are most convenient. They're not hard to produce and they go a long way in making Poser usable. I look forward to seeing the finished work - it's all great so far.

This looks excellent....wow really good work...Sharen

Wow, that turned out very good... but the P4 boy has the same problem as the MM boys "very few Clothes". Hope you finish him, he would be a nice addition. Niles

How about a sunburn texture? I understand that redheads burn more easily. :)

wow, when will this be ready?????

He reminds me of little Oppie on the Andy Griffith show...really stunning work. Sharen PS: love the hair

I love that tooth gap!!!! You actually made that kid look human, LOL! I am looking forward to him.

Oh, forgot... how about major scrapes on knees and?or elbows? And he -does- look like Opie!

As was said above, what p4Boy needs desperately is clothes. Other than that, this one sure looks good. Nice job.

Woohoo....I was just looking for a p4 boy texture the other week, and could find nothing...this is great. Rawn

nice brat, ooops kid :)

Great work. How about some eye textures as well. Maybe this boy will inspire some of the clothing makers.

You did such a nice job. Wonderful boy character!! -dg

i'm getting the skateboard and waterbaloon props ready!

Wow. I never thought I'd see the P4 boy look human, but this is stunning! Great work!

Excellent texture work... it looks like little boy skin (not too damaged or weathered yet). However, please get rid of that stupid everybody-jumps-on-the-wagon eye glint! If you have the sun from the left and the glint from the right, as in your pictures above, it screams "fake" faster than a little stuffed doll with painted eyes. If you don't include the highlight, people can set up the lights and add it themselves (by many and various means). If you include the highlight, people will either have to change their lighting to attempt to match it (which thus encourages conformity), or spend time in PhotoShop getting rid of the darned thing. For things to add? Jug ears and maybe an up-turned nose. A bit of sunburn or freckling will be good, but I suspect that once people have their hands on your morphs (which have done wonders for him!!!) more textures will be coming out. Maclean did a model of bubblegum being blown IIRC.... but no waterballoons in my files. ;^) Yet. Thank you for tackling this, Carolly

Looks pretty cool, HaiGan. Look forward to seeing it... nice to see someone do some good work with the P4 kids.

Wow, I wasn't expecting quite so much interest! Thank you all very much for the positive response. :) I don't know when Colin will be ready for download; hopefully there'll be something for the start of next week, but only with the one texture to begin with. Scraped knees sound just the thing. The point about the highlight in the eye was a good one, I'll airbrush that out. The ears are in progress- I'll try to put a preview up tomorrow.

I am always happy to see people making things for the basic stuff that is available to us 'Poser Poor People' who can't buy all the Vickies/Mikes and such. Possette is still the Queen of Poser models as far as I am concerned. Very nice work on your P4 boy...will be watching for it.

A preview of the ear mods for Colin. Just a tiny bit of tweaking still to do. I'd have liked to have them sticking out even more but it's pushing the limits of the mesh. :(