The Character seems to be made for animation and low rez. 

Is it dumb to get the figure if you aren't going to animate anything anytime soon (If at all?

Only if it's not useful to you.  If you like the way it renders in stills, and you feel it's worth the money, get it;  if it's something you'll see in your Runtime in a year and think "why did I spend good money on that?" don't get it...

I have Vincent Parker and the I think he renders fine--we're going to use tight close ups I don't think it matters how many poly's he has.  The texture map makes more of a difference--if it's a good map with decent resolution the character will still look good.

Cool. Thanks.

Unfortunately all the add ons he was meant to have never emerged. I'm almost certain that when he came out I read that his body would morph into various clothed forms. 

estherau

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**there are still items for vincent parker available, i already saw a texture set and some clothing, also some freestuff. I think he looks crosseyed and his uv map is not so great from what i can see.

Heh.. I like him... He is kinda goofy looking... but for what I paid with my birthday coupon, Vincent is pretty cool. I'm also going to get his XD license.

He's also got Wardrobe Wizard support and I think the native Poser people's clothing would probably convert well for him since his body type is similar to them.  

how is is bending tomsde?

To be honest, he's one of those figures I've collected and afterwards did very little with--mostly because I loathe Wardrobe Wizarding and there hasn't been a plethora of content or textures for him.  From what I could see in the demos he bends very well.

Just a quick check and he seems to do pretty well. Cool stuff like bicept bulge when forarm moves etc...

I think he was a well designed figure, I'm just dissapointed that his creator didn't come out with a line of clothing and alternative textures for him.

Well then you havent looked, cuz i went to his website and saw 1 alternative texture and also some clothing

I didn't say that I had nothing.  I have one alternate texture and some cloting--just not much in the way of clothing.  Content Paradise has a texture for him.  I have a super hero outfit and a few other weird things.  To the Wardrobe Wizard with him. 

Of course there's the new Squid Man or whatever the hell it is for him too.

did I imagine it, or do I really recall that they spoke of modelling clothes directly onto him eg morphing his legs into trousers?

Love esther

I don't remember that--but I do remember that they promised a lot of Vincent Parker content that didn't happen.  I believe you, perhaps low sales changed their minds. I found all two of my Vincent Parker outfits--ha ha.  One day perhaps I'll get around to Wardrobe Wizarding him some BDUs.  I think he makes a good looking soldier anyhow.

I happen to have a lot of military clothing made for him, but.... he is super conforming, and my clothes aren't. :( Helgard made him while at VP, but John at VP owns him now, and Helgard and I have kind of avoided making much for him, or trying to fix my clothes I made for him.

Thanks too bad because I think he's a good figure, one I would use more frequently if I had more stuff for him.

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The reason development was stopped on Vincent Parker had to do with the sale of Vanishing Point products to Renderosity, and my leaving Vanishing Point, nothing to do with the figure, he is a really great figure, especially if you are animating, which is what he was really built for, but he works well in still renders.

Well he certainly ain't dead Jim :) VP has released a new figure based off the VP guy base... http://www.vanishingpoint.biz/productdetail.asp?productID=2184 Plus permission has been given for a bunch of zbrush folks to work on the base mesh in two ways. 1. Sculpting new heads-body parts within zbrush. 2. Using scans from Zil's 3dscanner and combining them with the base mesh to form things such as animrophic creatures. ..both of which means the potential here for some amazing new monsters is well..pretty amazing :) Obviously if someone wanted to critique this approach. 1st thing they'd say... "But he's low poly and zbrush models and 3dscans are not." Normally that would be right, but not here. This is a way different approach. For the figures based off VP guy, these will be kinda like Daz's mil figures, the majority of the body mesh will remain light and the head will have more detail. I'm not going into the how-2 here, it's complicated and after 3 months and 12 people, theres still a few issues to resolve. But I can say it works. On the test meshes, the zbrush gurus have got 3dscans of 70-80b down to 5-7mb. They've kept great detail, got a nice clean poly-structures, no scan holes, have good mapping and grouping. Plus once it's all sorted then that knowledge will be made public for everyones benefit. Something thats never seen in the poserverse before.