There's so many threads comparing V4 to Sydney that I thought it may be fun to do a challenge based on that. 

How's about posting your best Syndey or your best V4 character faces to see which one looks the most realistic and beautiful. I know beauty is in the eye of the beholder but hopefully the diveristy of faces will give the rest of us a clearer idea of which is the most versatile figure. 

Note to make this fair there should be NO postwork but using textures and lighting is OK (after all thats were most of the skill comes in when using the raw Poser package). Also I think we should restrict to using only Sydney base and V4 plus the Morphs++ pack ( Lets face it V4 has no real face morphs out-of-the-box so we would be restricted to one face for her).

This hopefully will be a chance to stretch our creativity as well as giving those that are considering whether invest in another character the chance to see whats possible.

Maybe later we could do one to show off the body (although this will be harder as character realism  and shape will vary depending on the poses). But maybe just the face for now.

What do you think - any takers for the challenge?

I like the idea.

So can we use the Face Room on Sydney?

Yes, the face room is fine since that is where Sydneys face morphs are (correct me if I'm wrong though since I don't have Poser 7).

Oh and lets not have loads of discussions on which is superior based on Mesh density and joint parameters etc. (since I don't understand all that anyway!).  The proof is in what can be achived so put your money where your mouth is and lets see whats possible with just the included (or in V4s case the add-on) morph pack

Have fun and lets see what you can do with those gals!

Rendered in P6 with the standard light set-up and using the Wet Maps Texture pack available at DAZ3D.

Here's Sydney morphed in the face room, where I also tweaked her texture and added a blush overlay.  Freckles painted in postwork.

Thanks to Trekkie I've got her eyes looking normal!

Oh, and click on the image to see original size, this board does a horrendous job of resizing and compressing shudder

That Sydney is amazing, save that this contest said no postwork. :) But even if I ignored the freckles I think it would beat almost every V4 I've seen so far.

But ok, just to play fair, here's one of V4 with no postwork.

Btw, I've uploaded the three Sydney faces to freestuff, they should show up within 48 hours.

Are you using the morph brush - create? I find it too 'impactful'

I try to set it very low, but the slightest touch and the figure is growing horns out of the lips, cheeks, or wherever I try from. Hopefully someone will write a tutorial on it .

I find that setting the magnitude to .01 or .001 makes it easier to work with. Also, with some exceptions, "relative to: screen" gives better results than "relative to: surface".

Here's a quick render of V4 I did yesterday, hardly morphed, I just used one of the character presets (sorry I can't remember which one...) with a setting of about 0.6, the texture is the Standard by Daz...  I hope I'm doing this right, not used to posting images on  the forum...

Amazing work folks but I wonder whether the lack of Sydney entries is saying something about her capabilities compared to V4 hmm?  (then again maybe the P7 users are too busy exploring the new package)
Lucie - this is AMAZING. If I hadn't bought V4 before,  this would seriously make me consider it. BTW, if you ever do remember which character morph you used I'd love to know - this face is perfect for a render I have in mind.

Thanks everyone for posting - but please keep them coming :-)

These pictures help to figure better out what Sydney really looks like :)

I suspect a lot more people bought V4 than bought P7.  And some of those who did buy P7 are probably waiting for physical delivery.

Attached Link: Full render of the face thumbnail below - [NUDITY within]

This is Sydney, made in the face room and a little morph brushing.

This render wasn't done for focusing on the face. I might go back and do a face shot for the thread here.

StealthWork, I just checked, it's the Lisa morph in the character presets, I didn't put the dial completely to 1 though, I liked it better with a lower setting.

Thanks Lucie.
Tried playing with the Lisa dial as suggested but it didn't come out anywhere as well as yours. Oh well guess thats where the skill comes in !!!

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I guess I'll add one of mine:

This is my take on Tenel Ka from the Star Wars Expanded Universe.  Click on the image to see the full resolution, or click here to see the entire body shot.

Made w/ V4, Morph++ pack, and V4 Hi-Res textures.  Enjoy! :)

 Ok.. so far  the only V4 images that have impressed me are Giolon's and Lucie's..    Awesome job you too..     here is my V4 vs V3...
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1347564

My newest character for Vicky 4... Lacey. :-)

Great work so far, everyone!

skee.

These are great everyone!

Pjz99, I really like your set up and render!  Is that both characters?

Nothing artsy-fartsy, I wanted to try and see if I could get V4's face to look similar to Kalypso's Sydney.
I'm a novice/newb so I know it's not perfect and someone with a more experiance & skill could do a much better job!

Quote - Pjz99, I really like your set up and render!  Is that both characters?

 
Yep those are the two from my gallery pics, another play render to get an idea of proportion and scale.  Two down, around six or seven to go!

Hey, Sydney looks just like your avatar!

I guess I like both of them, it would just depend on the nature of my render as to which one I would decide to use.

Sydney has a "kick-ass" look about her. V4 looks rather young & naive.

Just my opionion!

Wow...great work LaVonne! Here is one I'm working on now. Hopefully she'll be finished by the weekend. She finally made it through IPB. :-) For Vicky 4 Complete.

V4's pupils and iris are on a slider on the Head :)

Yup, found 'em. Thanks! I wish they were "normal" to begin with.

She's really cute Damsel!

I know this is a V4 / Sydney Party… but this HiRes-Jessi wanted to crash.

This is the standard P6 HiRes-Jessi with extensive face morphs.

No Post Work !!!

I think She could give both V4 and Sydney a run for the money.

I am working on a new project using Jessi. If anyone else is using Jessi and would like to compare notes, send me a message.

-Jay

Wow kimber89!  Now that's an idea!  It's very very close too :) Was this done using V4's morphs or did you also morph her yourself?

I came in to find out WHO Sydney IS ... ah.. P7... nope.. don't have it... LOVE my P6.3 just fine and my V4 is doing well.... was busy with something else but did want to do a close up portrait of her from my latest gallery image....

I never liked the figures that came with poser, just my own opinion.

Quote - Wow kimber89!  Now that's an idea!  It's very very close too :) Was this done using V4's morphs or did you also morph her yourself?

Thank you Kalypso! I morphed her myself using the regular V4 morph dials...alot of them :))). No other morphing tools like D-Former or Poser (I can't for the life of me figure that program out) and I don't think I used any preset character dials...I'll have to look again.

Damsel, I find your Lorelle really really cute!  :)