I do not think that her turning into a teenager would be so wrong, as long as the character is not... misused, if you see what I mean :) Actually we lack good teenagers characters. We have a preschool and a preteen, but not many teens... at the millenium girls are getting a bit old. Ratteler will soon release a v3 morph that will refresh the concept of poser preteen, which is good, but any addition to the "young crew" o Poser is welcome. and if we can put some nice clothes on her... that's a plus.

I mighr be very wrong of course, but her head as she looked "out of the bag" and her name, made me think of the old H-game and eternal source of H-doujinshi's, Kizuato. There is indeed a Kaede in that game, with a moony face and the very same kind of haircut...

The problem is that when french cartoonists "step" into it, they still only assimilate a part of the graphism and contextual elements. Manga is not just about the way character look; it includes a whole world of graphical codes and page structure. It's just like Canada Dry; it smells like it, it looks like it, but it ain't it. Aristotelician philosophy insists on one thing: "art is imitation". It still doesn't mean that just because you painted a duck, it's a duck. Those french cartoonists might have assimilated the "kira eyes" concept, and in some cases the japanese view of colirs, I shall remind you that you can tell a corean comic from a japanese instantly even without texts, and a french one even better. They all are excellent in skills but they are wrong if they think that they should or can make "manga". First thing, manga won't take itself seriously. There is a willing part of irresponsibility in the manga style. Occidental cartoonists have a very high opininon of themselves, especially when they step into this kind of league: they all claim they got it all, and built a kind of fake elitism on it. The first guy to do it was Trantkat, the rather not-talented cartoonist in the "Tsunami" magazine. I actually showered his ego in an open letter. Nowadays the only french artists who have manga influences and that I'd respect are the authors of "Sillage". They obviously borrowed some concepts from manga but they do not try to imitate it. Not only the occidental eye and scheme of thought are different from the japanese one, but to top^it, where is the point in imitating a specific exotic style ? I'd rather see inventive young authors working on their own style rather than watching a stampede of westerner Katsura-wannabe kobuns. Art id personal. Borrowing someone else's art won't take an artist very far.

sorry about the typo's: it's 2 am here :3

Adam Warren stands right in the middle of it esthetically. The difference will be in his scenario and text approach though. An action anime or manga is never too verbose. Anime characters stuck into an "action" situation don't have those Silver Surfer lines you can read in Warren's version of Bubblegum Crisis. I love Warren's work but it aint either anime or comics: it stands on the razor edge. What he got right though is the japanese sense of puns. I think there's a mistake commonly made: there is no such thing as a "japanese comics" or an "american manga". Either way the cultural difference will bend the result... what was said earlier about "dulled" from japanese to american conception of anime esthetics is very true. You can tell immediately if it's a westerner's work or not; the method is different, the conception of a picture's background, the use of colors, everything will tell. it's like 2 schools of painting working on the same subject: if the japanese school is asked to draw a set of Ukyo-E and a set of hommages to Norman Rockwell, the latter will look weird. If the amerocan school is asked to do the same kind of work, their Ukyo-E will look like drawn on crack :3 I think we should all just stick to what we know... Maya's done a not only cute, but very useful doll here; she looks anime, she IS anime, and even us westerners who cannot "think" anime when we draw we can now make some pretty decent renders. It ain't about what we are capable of in terms of performance and competiotion, it's just a matter of what our cultural background make sus good at.

I look at all these outfits, I look at the incredible work you and your friends pulled on this TenTen line, and I must say: all of this is absolutely awesome _ you guys are real geniuses... Also, what makes me happy is that through this TenTen Fair operation I get to discover artists I did not know yet among japanese Poser creators. I knew very well Bat, whose work I have been keeping my eyes peeled even after the sudden problems that occured once on the site, but I did not know Yagami, for example _ his works too are great! :)

Oops. Sorry. I had not seen that a link had been added _

I noticed there had been a miko outfit for Tenten, but I don't know where to find it now :/ Do you have any suggestions, Yamato-san?

oh ok thanks ^^

yay thanks ^-^

Is there any known way so that, for example, if you make a character with his back against a wall, why not, when "pushing" it towards the wall, the lil guy will naturally stop when he its the wall? Or if you put a kid on an adult's shoulders, when you push the kid down his mom's shoulders will "stop" him from going through her body ? that's some collision issue too :) I am totally new to the whole concept of collision in Poser, this is why I ask.