Mankahoo has a new original pinup character named Angela. She has a pretty Asian face and a nice model-type body.  From looking at the texture templates, she looks fairly low-res.  She seems to bend nicely. 

Check her out at http://www.mankahoo.com/index.php?l=product_detail&p=105, http://www.mankahoo.com/index.php?l=page_view&p=showcase.

She's a bit expensive at $24.00, but maybe there will be some package deals that will save us $$$. I certainly want more info.

Expensive?    Consider the hours (translated into Months) to create this character and the quality of the character not to mention the added features.  $24.90 is a bargain.

Pappy

Looks very nice! Looks like she does bend well, something not often achieved :)

She has some cool facial expressions too :o). And 24 bucks is NOT expensive...lol. I remember spending BIG bucks for Vicky 2 and all of her morphs, maps and contraptions. Most likely well over a hundred by the time I'd purchased all her amenities ;o).

Nowadays, that's quite a chunk and I'd have to give it some thought given the economy and all. At the time, it seemed the logical thing to do...lol.

Laurie

Hoping for support.Bodymorphs ,Poses,Textures.Fantastic bending - to me she is absolutly  worth every cent. My opinion is , that her Body is a little bit to toony but that can be morphed away.

What a wonderful character!  I got her, she looks fantastic.

Unzipping now, will post some renders if I have a chance.

Initial impressions ... love her face, love her body shape and bendability. She's about 65K polys, nicely UV mapped, and I'm very impressed. This one is a keeper!

Maybe a dumb question, but does she scale nicely? I always find that most figures have too long a waist and legs ;o). Angela is no exception, tho she is lovely...lol.

Laurie

Thanks for the renders, Deecey!!  How is she subdivided -- like V4, V3, G2, etc?

 I hope Angela gets good support: in the way of morphs, textrues, hair, clothes, shoes, Wardrobe Wizard, Cross Dresser, etc. 

Neither nor,she is more cut like Antonia.She has also individual Toe limbs like the G2 people.

Wow!  Looks amazing...reminds me a bit of Esther...is it the same modeller?

I shortened her legs and waist up a smidge (too long IMHO) and she looks great :o). Here's hoping folks wanna make clothes for her. I did just a straight render in Poser 8 - no raytracing or anything, but I did add VSS to her (thanks again BB).

Well worth the money :o).

Laurie

Nice renders Deecey and Laurie, thanks for sharing.
dr geep
;=]

Pretty!

And I agree, $24 for a new figure is not expensive.  Lots and lots of work went into making that figure.

I hope it gets Wardrobe Wizard support.

I got the email from Ali when Angela was released a few days ago. She does look pretty good. I don't really worry about clothing support as long as the converters get updates, but that sort of thing can be a bit of a hassle. Maybe I just need to learn dynamics good and well and forget about conforming clothes.

At any rate, I like, but no can afford any time soon, and there's always more wanted stuff on the horizon. My next 3D purchase will likely be the PP2010 upgrade, but at least that's only $50 for me....

Very nice! Glad you brought this up. :)

Thanks for the render LaurieA!!  Did you scale anything else besides the legs and waist?  Her hands look disporportionately large.

Seems there's a morph to scale just about everything on this gal. I did scale her hands down, though I think the wonky look in my first image was camera angle more than anything ;o).

I'm trying to do some morphs for her face, but it seems she's not exactly symmetrical, so it's gonna be a little harder than I thought ;o). Putting epicanthic eye folds on Antonia was hard enough. I think it's gonna be doubly hard to get them out of Angela...lol. She DOES have some nice eye fold morphs tho which goes a little ways toward making her look slightly caucasion, but either way, she's cute as a button ;o).

edit: She does NOT take V3 or V2 poses too well, just in case you were wondering :o).

Laurie

I'm seriously impressed by those bends shown in the videos.

Quote - I'm seriously impressed by those bends shown in the videos.

 

Me too. Poser figures are definitely looking up.  If the trend continues, perhaps the ever out of reach realism might just show up :)

I have not purchased her yet but will soon (next payday )  Has anyone looked closely at the shoulders yet? How do they perform?

Quote - I'm seriously impressed by those bends shown in the videos.

 

She learned a lot from Antonia ;) .

Laurie

Definitely one for my Runtime, when I get the funds to buy it.  I bought his GG figure when it was on sale here and IMO, it's the best toon female there is.  Absolutely lovely character. 

Yup, real nice figure. I'm gonna try and make some article of clothing. Since I know even less about rigging than I do about modeling, it will probably be something dynamic.

Wish me luck. Lots of luck ;o).

Laurie

 My, she -does- fit nicely into the runtime, doesn't she? The facial controls and scaling work well, and the bends are nice as well. A few body morphs are needed, as well as a complete set of breast morphs (in both directions; the nipple handles are nice, but the actual mass doesn't shift around so much), but well worth the price....particularly  for the facial expression.

I loaded Ali into DS3 and ran her through the bellydance aniblocks; of course there were issues, but most of them -looked- to be correctable in a proper graph editor (fingers bowed backwards a bit too far, some trouble with the shoulders and hips). But we shall see....

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I loaded Ali into DS3 and ran her through the bellydance aniblocks.

That's pretty amazing, since Ali is the character creator. :)

The character is Angela.

Nested folders, don't you know........... :P 

Does this figure take textures from other figures?  If so, it would be really useful...

Hello,
For those of you who own her, I looked at the web page advertising her and did not see many body tone or muscular morphs listed. Are there any for her like the ones for V4?

Thanks
Mark

She has very few body morphs.

Yep, I'll agree. Very few body morphs. I guess that means she's a clean slate for someone to work with ;o). I'm usually not one to do body morphs, but since I have Poser 8 now and the morph brush goes across zones I may just try some. Maybe ;o).

Laurie

Simple dynamic dress...coming soon to a freebie section near you. I just have to get all the textures done and the folders in order...

Just as an aside, I had to learn to USE dynamics in order to make this dress work, but it was 'bout time I suppose...lmao ;o).

Laurie

Very nice!!!
Thanks Laurie.

cheers,
dr geep
;=]

Thanks :o). I'm very proud...I've only been doing this modeling thing for about two months. Thank the gods for the creators of Wings!! LMAO ;o). And of course, for your tutes geep...hehe.

Laurie

Looks nice, Laurie. Thanks so much - looking forward to it, 'cause I can't do any renders of her until she gets decent. :)

Enjoy your non-nekkid Angela...lol.

Laurie

That's a cute dress.

Quote - That's a cute dress.

Glad ya think so...I'm gonna try and adapt it to Antonia (or a version thereof)...lolol.

Laurie

Thanks, Laurie! I've never been to your site before... you've got a lot of nice freebies there! :thumbupboth:

Quote - Here it is. You can grab it here :o).

Enjoy your non-nekkid Angela...lol.

Laurie

Yeah, but why spoil a good thing with clothes?!
dph

The dress is essentially the same bodice as the other one I made, except I changed the bottom to look more like a baby-doll style.

"She wore blue velvet...."

Laurie

Just a heads-up that Ali has released a body morph set for Angela. www.mankahoo.com/index.php  Looks like a pretty decent list of morphs.

Half price through Apr 31, so I think I better pick it up now.

 Also, Angela and her strapless bikini are updated. I didn't get any email about it so I thought I'd mention it here.

Thanks for that heads-up. I didn't know about the update, but sure enough, when I looked under downloads it said she was updated today (Sat).

Yup, got the email about the updates :o).

Laurie

Thought I'll bump this thread.

Ali (Mankahoo) has released a new figure called Ang2 (probably short for Angela2).

Going by the videos on his youtube channel,she looks very flexable and highly morphable.

Anyway if interested check them out here.

Ang2 ballet - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K-MeOqqHXs&feature=related

Ang2 face - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdfcPyqHDqA&feature=related

Is this what you are looking for?

BTW, the main body isn't viewable now.

Wow, Ang2 looks great! I wonder why she's been made quite a bit shorter than Ang1.

Whatever the reason, I never knew of Ang1 and just seeing the video of the face morphs has won me over. I'm going to get Ang2 right now.

I just love Angela - both of em ;). I must have that new Kate morph as well...lolol. Laurie

Does anybody know why Angela has been taken awayrecently ? And what is the gen.obj in the geometrie folder ? There is no geometrie datas in the file (1kb) .