(Released!) Leading Male Morph Collection for Genesis 8 Male(s) (Commercial)
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Leading Male Morph Collection is a set of five morph sets (Head, Body, and Full) for the Genesis 8 Male line. Each morph can be used independently from the full set for a variety of looks. Each morph set was created with the assistance of photo references and modeled/sculpted in Zbrush and Hexagon with merchant resources, and does not require additional morph sets to use.
These are not merchant resources and cannot be used in other product creations, freebies, etc..
There are no textures/shaders included.
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Lots of possibilities here. Good job!
Nice looking morphs, but if I may make a comment, Daz isn't short of characters with "leading man" good looks.
What we could do with (I think) is more old/ugly/distinctive faces for hoods, heavies and other secondary characters - like the Genesis and G2M Extraordinary Men series. Consider this a "product suggestion" rather than any criticism of your upcoming product.
Hi Chris,
I agree. My idea of Leading Men is not only good looks, but personality and character-which I hoped to add to the morph set. I do not believe a leading man is only a good looking man, but a man with a distinct face, or mannerisms, character ability, etc. I've actually had a challenge posted in the art forum in my thread for my followers to suggest people they'd like me to use as references (Since I do not do complete likenesses to avoid legal issues), and all of the morph sets in this pack are from that list of 32 names chosen randomly by a randomizer I found online.
Thank you, Sigurd!
Something else I am always looking for is good Endomorph or Endo-Meso characters. Contrary to much of what you will find on the internet when searching, Endos can be fit and in good shape it is just their tendency is towards the round and fluffy.
I'm very interested in this product. You always do amazing work. But, I agree with Chris that as another product it would be great to have "old/ugly/distinctive faces for hoods, heavies and other secondary characters." I hope you do something like that as well.
You said "I do not do complete likenesses to avoid legal issues." But hasn't this been resolved in a court case? I thought the verdict was that people can look amazingly alike. Look at the doubles that we've seen of Queen Elizabeth II, Elizabeth Taylor (to name just two Elizabeths); James Dean and Ingrid Bergman, and many other undead celebreites (remember Death Becomes Her?) I thought the verdict was that you can't claim that this is a famous person, and you shouldn't use the same name, but if one individual looks very much like another, that's no one's legal liability. And a person's looks keep changing over the years. Many older celebrities can only wish they looked as they did 30 years ago. No, not even the famous person can keep a personal look. To go back to my first: take a look at Queen Elizabeth II today. Now, look at one of her pictures that's 40 years old. See?
Not precisely. There are rights of publicity that are controlled by the person or their estate. http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/using-name-or-likeness-another
And, of course, there's the issue that there are at least 53 different jurisdictions (in the US -- 50 states, the territories, DC, the federal government) with their own takes on the rights of publicity and privacy. California and New York tend to be very strict, other jurisdictions vary widely.
To a point, famous people tend to leave certain levels of imitation alone because those types of imitation don't damage their reputation, and because the imitators don't make a huge amount of money from it. However, some celebrities object vehemently to anyone making money off their appearance when they don't approve.
There was a vendor at Rendo who did celebrity versions of 3D characters who I believe wound up getting sued over it, and who had to change their products and remove some of them as a result. They'd done promos and other things that emphasized the resemblance, and the celebrity's representation (agents and lawyers) was very much not amused at all. (In light of that, and the fact that the issues involved one of their vendors, there are several current products at Rendo that I'm absolutely astonished made it through for sale without Rendo insisting that the resemblance be less complete. I've always been astonished that Reby Sky lent her likeness to Daz for her figure, but that was explicitly done under license, with her full knowledge, permission, and participation.)
Basically, you're FAR better off not doing complete likenesses, or even particularly close ones.
Thank you. I didn't know that. I noticed that the proliferation of celebrity figures declined. Still, they only keep their celebrity looks for a time. Look at what happens over the years.
Oh, yeah. There have been many issues with legal teams and 3D Models, and artwork. I've had a piece of art removed from a site when the legal team of a particular musician declared it a violation of the person's trademark image-since then, nope.
And they're here!
Crossposting from DM's main thread, just to show what they can look like
First image: on the left, 100% Leading Man Jacov head, 100% Jacov body + 25% Vladimir 8 body, Christian 8 texture; on the right, 100% Jo Yun head and body, Lee 8 texture with Altern8 Lee8 shader and Maxx tattoo
Lower image: 60% Leading Male Rannek head and body, 40% Leading Male Roche head and body, 25% Darius 8 head, Darius 8 texture
Just bought and back-converted to G3M last night, and these guys are "shaping" up to be a lot of fun! This is 90% Jacov, 10% Kyle, and 100% the HD additive to Kyle, with Kyle's skin. The result looked kind of like Oded Fehr, so I kind of reimagined what Mr. Fehr's character (tough and mysterious, seems like a bad guy at first but isn't) from the Brendan Fraser Mummy movies would be if you put him into the recentish (and not recommended) Tom Cruise Mummy movie.
Thank you, Darwin!
I'm on the the other side of what Chris said - I love the handsome/good looking guys (with character) :) I havent' rendered all of them yet, but I can tell you Luke and Roche are my faves. Here's one of Luke.
Wow! :D :D
Right?
Well done and thank you Darwin!
Wow is right- thank you, everyone! I'm so glad they are so well liked- and mix great with other figures. That being "said", I will definitely work on set 2. XD Keep an eye out in my art thread- I'll be using the randomizer in the challenge list of names of people I'll use for the inspiration for the morphs for the next version.
*edited for clarity :D
Agree to a dot with your description of the leading man, and this is a product that I feel fills a definite niche (it isn't really a niche, it's a gaping hole between the skinnies and the Ivans!). I'm waay over my budget for the month, but I'll definitely be picking this up very soon.
Thanks and keep up the good work!
Thanks so much! Can't wait until I get to see some more renders. :D