I think FaceGen is a good artist aid for illustrators who want to create interesting characters fast. You can do a quick version of a character you would like to see created in Poser, as I have done hoping it will inspire the Jedi Masters in the Marketplace. For something that expensive, it doesnt have the long term value of a character created in Poser. If you want 3D celebrities, your best bet is still Orion and Gwendolyn. I enjoy it; its mind-expanding, useful, and addictive making you miss dinners and favorite television programs. Bedtimes. Work. But its like the dark side of The Force Quicker, easier, more seductive. You can learn it in one day, and learn to do halfway decent work in 2 days. FaceGen cannot really do good noses. Poser can. FaceGen noses are very generic, cookie cutter affairs with limited shaping options. I think the main reason to even bother to load a side view photo is for texturing purposes. Most FaceGen jobs are best viewed from the front. I managed to create an okay Boris Karloff, and a very decent Vincent Price. I did these purely by doodling around and experimenting. I didn't even bother with photos on those two. (The first thing I tried to do when I got FaceGen was make beautiful women. No spectacular successes in that area yet.)

I agree. I recently goe Face Gen and I've been moderately disaapointed. Sure, it can make some good faces, and quickly, too. But as long as you can't properly integrate them into Poser, it's a toy and not a tool...

Above is my first attempt with Face Gen... Koji's body, face gen head. No postwork, as it shows...

I thought FaceGen had a purchaseable addon that integrated it with Poser 4 or 5.. I read that somewhere. Sadly the mesh doesn't fit Poser's heads, however, I am not sure it won't work on the older poser 4 guys. Never tried that. And ummm for FACES and Celeb Morphs please don't forget the master face morpher for celeb-males - JPeter and his 7 movie men packs. Some of his faces are DEAD-ON. I usually use FaceGen as a starting point and then make the heads in a front and side view then paste the heads onto single sided planes, scale them in my poser workspace so the images are the same height, and then put a D3 figure there next to them, line them up with the head and begin building the head as a morph in poser. Using dials first to get close then using magnets when needed, then spawning morph targets, and creating dials till I have the face I want and can turn it to 1 or 0 in the dial. Then when finished I can create an INJ/REM for the new face. I was very successful with this method. if you have a good eye, you can pretty much morph the face you made in FaceGen in short time in Poser itself. Greetings, Antonio