I have a cast of characters that includes both humans and fairies, and the fairies are meant to be around 10% of the size of an adult human. I'm using V4 and M4 for all the humans and Mavka, Amity, and Vila for some of the fairies. But I'm using V4 for the fairy meant to be a companion to my main character, and I'd like to use V4 for several other fairies as well.

Thus far I've been working on the V4 fairy companion character while she's at 100% size. I have her set up with morphs, skin, hair, and outfit, but before I settle on which wings to use, I thought I should ask for input on the best way to handle a character that's supposed to be so much smaller than the others.

The story calls for the fairy to interact with the main character quite often, in a variety of settings, so it would be impractical to render her separately at full size and then blend a scaled-down render into a scene with humans. I need this fairy figure to be a posable actor in the same scene files that contain humans and human-sized sets and props.

At first I thought the obvious solution was to simply scale the character (with clothes and hair) down to around 10%. But I discovered a few problems, like that scale info doesn't get saved in the Pose library and many adjustment morphs in clothing no longer work as expected. Many 3rd party poses also no longer work as expected.

So now I'm wondering if it would be more practical to create an FBM for the character that includes the scaling down to around 10% of V4's usual size, and to then transfer that FBM to her clothes and wings. But I don't know if that would actually work any better than using the Body Scale dial. Or if there's another solution I should consider.

I'd appreciate any suggestions y'all might have -- other than using a different figure, since V4 is the only figure I have that can make the full range of expressions I need. Thanks!

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TOOLS: MacBook Pro; Poser Pro 11; Cheetah3D; Photoshop CC

FIGURES: S-16 (improved V4 by Karina), M4, K4, Mavka, Toons, and Nursoda's people

GOALS: Stylized and non-photorealistic renders in various fantasy styles