OK just a few things I wanted to mention as a person with ZERO graphic arts background:
For the record I am playing with Poser 5, The DAZ Free Studio thing and Clother.

Clother seems like a pretty straight forward program. A nice way to dress a character. Additional clothing packs can really get up there in price and I wish you could import outside stuff into it. Also they ought to make a program to design your set. Boom, here is the floor, here are the walls, I want a window here, a table and chair there and then bring it into one of the other programs. Sort of like my TV days, you dress the set and light it and then bring in your people and make sure their lighting works too.

Those of you that are graphic artists no doubt are used to and comfortable with your own lingo. But coming from the outside, both Poser and DAZ Studio use the most anti intuitive catagories to describe things! What I would call a model or character can be a face, a character, a prop, whatever. Hair sets seem to fall into ANY catagory. Since it SEEMS like you can mix and match a lot of the add-ons from character sets (as far as I can tell so far). It would be so much better to have characters, clothing, eyes, makeup, hair, props(items), backrounds and settings, along with sub directories indicating male/female, photo realistic/fantasy, etc. Finding stuff makes the task of mucking around with these program tedious at times. Any solutions to this?

I love the Renderosity web site. However, I wish the search engine was a bit more specific. Perhaps adding search for but NOT would be a good idea. I have no interest in the anime stuff for example. Nor the little kids. Seems any search I run on a more generalized term brings up 150 pages in the Marketplace. Frankly I am not going to look at that many items.

The following is not meant to be racist in any way, shape or form. Is it just me or are black and latina characters way under represented? Caucasians and Asians seem well covered. I have yet to see a good black hair package. Also I have not seen any really dark photorealistic black characters. Characters that have a skin tone that I have heard African Americans refer to as "Burple" (so black they are almost purple). Think less Halle Berry and Tyra Banks and more Naomi Campbell. There is an adult film star, whose name escapes me, that is incredibly dark and wears blue contacts for an amazingly exotic look. If anyone that can point me towards the things I have mentioned it would be greatly appreciated.

I have seen a few exceptions to this but for the record not all women have enourmous breasts and bee stung pouty lips. Nor are they as "perfect" or symetrical. Nipples point different ways and areoli are often not the EXACT same size on each breast. I think its this perfection that makes some characters wind up looking fake. I know a few of these things can be corrected with the dials but it might be nice right out of the box.

Where are the celebrity look alikes? I have seen a few but with the vast array of beautiful actors, models, adult models and adult film stars you would think there would be more. Is it a copywrite issue on a person's image or am I looking in the wrong places? Any developers feel free to contact me for model suggestions. I have a rather extensive picture collection I would be happy to share.

Has anyone found a hair package that recreates the styles from my salad days, the 80's? Remember "Big Hair"? Or Jersey Girl Hair?

All the tattoos I have seen are tribal in nature (I suspect this is because they are easier to make). What about the standard flash found in almost any tattoo shop? The panther climbing up the arm, the small rose, the butterfly? What about a "full sleeve" (tattoo term-entire arm covered, wrist to shoulder)? Check out any of the tattoo magazines to see the new brilliant colours they are using. Also see the suicide girls web page for contemporary body modification. Hey even the old ugly india ink stuff would add some realism (remember guys or worse girls that tattooed Love on one fist and Hate on the other?).

Sorry if this was too long or posted in the wrong place. Comments welcome. More things as I think of them.
Cheers,
RWB64