The only thing I really don't like about Bella is, that there is actually not much to do about her. Tweaking her body shape a little bit, maybe?
There is no other out of the box figures in Poser or DAZ studio with that high quality of expressions.

JanusJsenwark posted at 3:24 PM Sun, 21 May 2023 - #4466030

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O.k, that is outstanding. Good job.

JanusJsenwark posted at 5:09 PM Wed, 10 May 2023 - #4464926

Here are some impressions of the incredibly beautiful Bella from Mankahoo.

It is unbelievable what the genius Mankahoo has created here. Bella is capable of incredible facial expressions without becoming ugly.

Bella is highly underrated. Bella is one of the best (maybe THE best) figures ever created for Poser.

odf posted at 5:30 PM Sun, 2 April 2023 - #4460551

Y-Phil posted at 7:23 AM Sun, 2 April 2023 - #4460476

odf posted at 5:42 AM Sun, 2 April 2023 - #4460467

Hi Ulli,

It‘s Antonia 1.3 now, with some updates to the mesh and rigging. Check out my FreeStuff section here on Rendo.

She's still Antonia 1.3 with all the work you've done on/for her?

My last version way back before the hiatus was Antonia 1.2. Then the slightly updated Antonia 1.3 was published last October. When Poser has full support for unimesh figures, I'll think about an Antonia 2.

What do you think of? Are you planning to make adjustments to the geometry?

JanusJsenwark posted at 3:05 PM Sun, 7 May 2023 - #4464587

@ghostship2....Thanks for the tip, but I'm more of the easygoing type, always looking for something magical. I like it dark and cuddly, maybe a bit mysterious.

This picture has almost too much light... but it's still a bit mysterious.

Not too much light at all. Pretty much the correct amount of light. The uniform saturated blue sky looks completely wrong. 

No nitpick at all, but whatever...
tiger lying down – Google Suche

Rhia474 posted at 8:14 PM Sat, 6 May 2023 - #4464499

Like so (very rough render, stopped after a few samples)

The tiger looks outstanding, the pose is perfect. The composition is just how it suppose to be. I just think, that depth of field and lights need more work.

ghostship2 posted at 1:42 PM Thu, 4 May 2023 - #4464271

bump maps

Have you already tried normal maps?

Again, just curious: Are those details bump maps, normal maps or displacements?

ghostship2 posted at 8:54 AM Thu, 4 May 2023 - #4464249

I really don't know what you folks are on about "no skin detail." This is the same character up close

Close up looks good, no doubt about that.
Maybe adding wrinkles around eyes and nose? Some have those already at teenage years. 
I know, those things missing on cover magazines too, but it does no longer look real there either.
Are those details bump maps, normal maps or displacements?

Quote.
"as I'm not interested in 100% realism as for this, well, I've got a mirror in my bathroom "
Sorry, I missed that part ;-)

ghostship2 posted at 4:47 PM Wed, 3 May 2023 - #4464164

More DOF to upset the apple cart. lol

One out of two renders here, that I actually do like.
Still not convinced of the skin shaders, though. Still lacking from details and looking "dollish". Even from a distance, skin should not look that uniform.
The hair shader is surprisingly good, which is rare, not only in Poser. 
That "Chalice Theronish" character face is without a question just great, but I have never been a fan of V4, which this figure seems to be according to its arm deformations on posing.
The mood and pose is perfectly caught.

corvas posted at 8:43 PM Mon, 24 April 2023 - #4463315

Really excited to see what improvements Poser will have in the future but for now I'm really happy with the render speed and bloom fx.

Oh wow!

blackbonner posted at 9:35 AM Fri, 21 April 2023 - #4462951

@Nevertrumper, why should I recreate such an inferior render result? I could probably post a photograph of a female in open sunlight and you will complain that it isn't realistic. I honestly doubt you know the difference between real and realistic.

If you look at my Poser Render, you will clearly see that the light behaves realistic. It bounces of the fabric of the swimsuit and skin of the figure and creates some indirect light and edge lighting as well. This is done with one light and a light emitting SkyDome, just as it was set up on DS 

Go and search for this lighting in my Daz Studio render. It's not there! I have work with DS, C4D, Blender, Poser, 3DSMax and every Renderengine they had to offer, including VRay and I'm doing it for two decades now. 

Well, fine then. What ever you are happy with.
I went through Poser galleries and tried to figure out, if Poser is just that bad at rendering or if users are unable to handle Poser.
I used Poser frequently until Poser Pro 2014 and got me the Octane plugin for better renderings. 
Poser 11 and above showed no evidence of better render capabilities. 
So why?
a) Poser can't do it?
b) Poser just doesn't make it easy for users?
c) A vast majority of Poser users just don't know, how to do it?
d) A vast majority of Poser users just don't care about their artwork quality?

You've just proven, that as soon you are using DS, your work looks actually much better.

Your first render was not realistic at all.

This second DS render looks so much better in pretty much everything. 
Let's see, if you can recreate that quality in Poser.

@ JohnDoe641 :
You've nailed it.
It is not about bashing Poser. It is the anger about Poser falling behind and refusing to do anything about it.
Once Poser has been nr. 1 in this segment, now it is far behind DAZ and Reallusion.
Part of the problem is also, that most Poser users are acting like cult members. 
Just by praising Poser, the software will never get better. There has to be strong demands for improvements.