Civil questions deserve civil answers. :') Thanks for bringing up your concerns. It's my pleasure to answer them. Chris

Great ideas everyone! As for the dancing baby - the thing that always bugged me about the 3DSMax dancing baby that was seen on Ally McBeal is that it was just an ordinary motion capture dance that was put on the baby. If we do a baby dance, I want to do it like a baby would do it if they knew the moves - wit ha complete lack of co-ordination. That would be far cuter! What do you think of having separate packs for poses and animation or should we keep them combined? What price would you like to have on the packs? We want to sell a lot of them, so what would be your "impulse buy" threshold? As for the animals, all the talk in the forums before was about updated versions of the animals that were already in Poser. Now we see that that isn't really what people want at all. We are already in production with the horse and dolphin, so they will be released first. We may change direction after that and create a different variety of animals instead of following the old list. Any special animal requests? (I should make that a new thread...) Chris

I Love it! I was just looking for something like that! If you guys made it, I know it will be top quality - heading off to buy it now! Chris

I just gave a very complete description of the reason for using RTEncoder in the Poser forum - I'll copy it below. Here's the story - please read it carefully... Curious Labs gave Cubed the rights to use the unused beta content from Poser 5. We were given written permission to develop and sell products based on this material. The baby was a partial mesh that wad been derived from the P4 baby body and the P5 head. We removed a lot of mesh and built it up from there. After releasing the babies, Daz (with whom we have an excellent working relationship, as we do with Curious Labs) informed us that Curious Labs did not have the right to give us the permission that they did. Together, we came up with the simplest solution. By using RTEncoder, everyone that owns poser can use the babies. This doesn't offer a solution for a Maya version, however. If we create a version 2, we will probably rebuild the body mesh to eliminate any dependency on legacy content and free the licence for all formats. As for Daz Studio, we will discuss that with Daz and I'm sure we will come up with a simple solution for that as well. BTW, Daz have said that we do not have to recall any of our original sales, nor did they insist on us stopping sales until we had the encoded version released. They are easy about the whole thing. Daz and the Forge (and now Cubed) have a long history of co-operation and mutual support. We deal fairly and honestly with everyone and they deal the same way with us. There is no scandal and no feud, so please understand that everyone is cool with this. Did anyone have any other questions that they would like answered? If you're wondering about the animals, they are all 100% original - built from the ground up. I'm going to bed now - I'll check back here in the morning. BTW, we have the individual babies, clothes and poses available now. Chris

I guess I'm not in bed yet... soon. Catherina, I want to be very clear - there are no "bad guys" in this situation. There was a misundersanding about licensing between CL and Daz and we got cought in the middle. It's all cleared up now and everyone is happy. BTW, has anyone seen any gallery images with our babies yet? I'd love to see what everyone is doing with them. Billygoat, looking for someone to sell you a baby? ...err... I have a couple to sell! You'll like them - they don't even have any smell when you change their nappies! :') Go buy one and have fun! Chris

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Hi Everyone - thanks for the heads up on this thread! Here's the story - please read it carefully... Curious Labs gave Cubed the rights to use the unused beta content from Poser 5. We were given written permission to develop and sell products based on this material. The baby was a partial mesh that wad been derived from the P4 baby body and the P5 head. We removed a lot of mesh and built it up from there. After releasing the babies, Daz (with whom we have an excellent working relationship, as we do with Curious Labs) informed us that Curious Labs did not have the right to give us the permission that they did. Together, we came up with the simplest solution. By using RTEncoder, everyone that owns poser can use the babies. This doesn't offer a solution for a Maya version, however. If we create a version 2, we will probably rebuild the body mesh to eliminate any dependency on legacy content and free the licence for all formats. As for Daz Studio, we will discuss that with Daz and I'm sure we will come up with a simple solution for that as well. BTW, Daz have said that we do not have to recall any of our original sales, nor did they insist on us stopping sales until we had the encoded version released. They are easy about the whole thing. Daz and the Forge (and now Cubed) have a long history of co-operation and mutual support. We deal fairly and honestly with everyone and they deal the same way with us. There is no scandal and no feud, so please understand that everyone is cool with this. Did anyone have any other questions that they would like answered? If you're wondering about the animals, they are all 100% original - built from the ground up. I'm going to bed now - I'll check back here in the morning. BTW, we have the individual babies, clothes and poses available now. Chris

Not exactly. Cubed acquired the rights to beta materials of the unfinished P5 baby from Curious Labs. There wasn't much to begin with but it had used the P4 as a base so there is still a small amount of P4 mesh in some of the body parts. The head was originally the P5 head which we were NOT given permission to use, so the head is 100% original. Most of the body was ripped out and rebuilt but it still started it's existence as the P4 baby back at Curious Labs. For that reason, it was prudent to use RTEncoder to ensure that the original licensing from DAZ is not breached.

Yes - they are going to take a couple of days to clear RegNow's staging process. We're working on a new clothing pack and another animation/pose pack right now as well. These babies are going to be very well supported! Chris

The poser 4 nude infant - everyone that owns poser has it. Chris

The individual baby files are finally up! Sorry for the delay. Chris

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There's also the eagle animation by The Forge Studios available at DAZ. It includes a scene where the eagle lands and folds it's wings.

Hi! I'm back from my trip! The individual babies are up now as is theseparate clothing pack. The animation and pose pack is not up yet. Thanks for all the encouragement everyone! cobaltdream, you select the version you want with the drop down menu at the bottom of the description - right where the price is.

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Thanks PapaBlueMarlin! Yes, please send in your list of animals - we would love to produce them! Hauksdottir, The Sea Serpent was produced by The Forge Studios. There is some cross over of staff between The Forge and Cubed (such as myself) but they are separate ventures creating different products. Cubed also offer animation services - see our website for examples.

Probably not. Full human adult characters take an enormous ammount of time and money to produce. We will probably be producing morphs and clothing options for the Daz and Poser figures but I doubt if we will produce our own. Chris

Not by committee - by a team. A team under a great deal of pressure. Seriously, I'm proud of what we managed to accomplish in so short a span of time. Actually leaving now. Bye until Monday! Chris