Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Why do most asian characters NOT look asian?

Maxi_Rose opened this issue on Dec 20, 2005 ยท 66 posts


Maxi_Rose posted Tue, 20 December 2005 at 12:43 AM

I'm not going to name names or link images because I don't want to hurt any one person. However, why do a great portion, if not MOST, asian characters posted for sale, not look asian? Some look like caucasian or European women with asian names, while one I saw, claiming to be authentically Japanese based off of REAL PHOTOS(TM), actually looked black!

I also wonder where some people get their choices of names for asian characters? Some of them border on racially-offensive!

Why does it seem so many of the asian characters for sale these days look like someone grabbed a generic texture to slap on and twisted the eye-dials until the character's eyes are off-kilter enough so as not to look caucasian anymore?

Hasn't anyone heard of the epicanthic fold?! Don't people realize that, ethnically speaking, Japanese don't look like Koreans, who don't look like Chinese, who don't look like Vietnamese, etc?! I know actual Chinese, Japanese, and Korean people who are seriously offended by how some of these characters are designed or named, like caricatures or cartoon_people!

Someone help me understand whycharacters are designed like this while claiming to be "true, exotic asian beauties"?