I'm going to muse poetic about something I know nothing about, but humor me... there is a point.

The recent release of the new figure "Little One" has set me to thinking about the whole 3d Poser/Daz industry.

There are too many figures out there.

My belief is that modelers see creating a new character as their ticket to large profits (or fame et al.) I think the opposite is true. 

Let's take a look at Clark. He was a rather handsome young man, and I bought him early in his life-cycle. I bought the first flurry of clothing that was released. As I used him, I kept waiting for the rest of the stuff I needed to make him truly useful. It never came. Most of the things created for Clark have cycled out of the Rendo stores, and I've actually deleted him from my runtime because I can't use him nearly as effectively as my other characters.

And it's not about cost. It's about support. Look at how poorly supported the native Poser characters are. Yes, my own opinion is they are ugly as sin and poorly rigged, all the way back to Poser 4, but put that aside. Apollo Max anyone? He's free, some artists think he's the be-all and do-all of Poserdom... and you still don't find 1% of the things available for him that are out there for the Daz meshes.

Where am I going with this? It's a plea to the talented modelers out there to stop wasting their time and build things that are actually going to be of use to the community. Perhaps someone needed a toon little girl... but we don't need three of them, none of which have enough support to sneeze at! 

Once I buy a new character, I realize that like adopting a child, I've made a far larger commitment than meets the eye. They need hair, clothing, shoes, accessories... it's a big financial commitment. So much so that I'm very choosy these days. I'm a V4/M4 user. Period. I've found that those meshes do what I need, do it very well, can be morphed into a character of almost any age, and give me a great deal of bang for my buck. If you bring out a new character, you've got to show me where it's going to not only fill a niche, but gain support so that it will be truly useful. Again, look at all the free content that comes with Poser, and look in the galleries to see what percentage of the art is derived from them.

Little One is cute as she can be. If she were a morph for V4 I'd buy her in an instant and use her like crazy. But a new mesh? Hope for new clothing? Buy new clothing?

Afraid not.

Please guys and gals... I'm not talented enough to do what you do. Please stop wasting your time on dead ends, and get back to creating materials for the mainstream characters that ARE useful. (Which will hopefully not include more thongs and other slutwear!)

BTW... I will not respond to further posts to this thread. I'm not wanting to argue, just to make my plea. So, flame away.

My $.02