Quote - So, I've been looking at several of the other figures - both those that are currently available, and images of others coming available, and I'm wondering, how important to you are the small details in a figure?

Details you may not notice right away until you look closer. 

Things like ear shapes, finger nails and toenails, are toes moveable/poseable, are nails separate geometry - can they be lengthened or shortened, how realistic is the tongue or teeth and gums, things like that.

Also, clothing and accessories. I see a lot of requests for everyday clothing, both male and female, but is that really the norm, or does a more fantasy style appeal to the masses? Of all the styles, it seems sci-fi gear would have the least variation in what is currently available.

You may not think teeth and inner mouth would be very important, but I make a lot of renders where the character is smiling...lol. I've done my share of vacuous expressions, but only because, frankly, most expression morphs suck. LOL

Any thoughts?

 

~Shane

In a word, VERY. ;)

I think its the small details that make a model look more like a person if that makes sense. The veins in the neck, the tendon on the heel, the veins on the foot, the wrinkles on the kneecap, the details in the upper and lower eyelids that make all the difference in the world. One of the glaring things I've seen in recent and upcoming figures are really ugly feet. More like balloon feet. That, with tootsie roll toes turns me right off...lol. Gabe's Anastasia has the best looking feet in Poserdom, hands down. I still can't believe he got those awesome feet from the balloon tootsie rolls that are Alyson's feet...lol.

Now, a lot of detail can be achieved by displacement maps - and I actually think that's what most vendors are ignoring in todays figures that would really put them over the top - but still there are details that would look better modeled that aren't being modeled. I figure, if any vendor is gonna take the time to model a figure for Poser they may as well go all the way :P.

For what it's worth Shane, I think your figures have more of the stuff that I'm looking for in a Poser figure than I've been seeing lately.

I'm not bashing all figures that aren't particularly realistic - they all have their uses. I'd never have bought a Nursoda figure if I didn't think so (and I have a lot). But if what you're going for is realism, then maybe a vendor should actually look at and disect the human form once in awhile instead of trying to do it by memory. It never turns out right that way ;).

Laurie