Seems like the venerable V4 mesh/figure has been a mixed blessing for this corner of the 3d art medium... I'm curious if anyone knows the backstory of the figure. For instance who created this model? Imagine being that person and think of all the income the model has generated, it's almost certain the modeler was doing work for hire at Daz.

Along those lines, over the years I've seen a lot of modelers dismiss or negatively critique the topology of the figure but I've yet to see from any of them work that surpasses the versatility of the mesh. It's not simply "well there's more content available for V4" to account for its longevity. Although a huge factor. Comments about the legacy rigging and magnets and such are probably moot at this point, although thoughts are still of interest.

Any insights, opinions, or especially lore is of interest.

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