Do some vendors have multiple accounts? (CLOSED)

However, I did mention my 'double life' right after I created the second account

https://www.renderhub.com/forum/8069/pushee-ri-and-pasahri-same-but-different

I don't have a problem with that, it seems quite a sensible idea.

I do have my own NSFW account as well for explicit renders, tho it was made quite shortly before the adult content purge lmao

Also, don’t discount AI bots making accounts. I recently had my IP blocked and had to request that it be unblocked, which means Renderhub must be having some sort of weird issues, although this is just my simple speculation.

'----- it's uncanny, almost as if that's the only angle that the head looks natural...'

And maybe that's already the solution: only use it frontally

Unfortunately, this isn't even a joke... and it's not limited to the RH Shop either: one of my favorite models (Eve 8.1 by HID3D, DAZ Store) looks absolutely stunning from the front... but looks like it was carved out of wood from the side (though that's just my opinion).

Now I'm curious, taking a look at the store in a few.

I see what you mean. Pure frontal, full-face view, zero expression. One I saw was pretty good, an older woman with very wrinkly skin.

The skin alone is perfect, but perfect in the sense that it must be a wrap from real images (I'm not saying that's bad, I just don't think I have the right to use someone else's likeness, at least not on purpose). And in almost every shot, even when the body isn't fully frontal, the face still is. I bet that's trying to hide the fact that all the wrinkle detail isn't natural light bouncing off a normal map or displacement.

Feels like a tool made some of the ones I noticed, with at most, minimal human correction, but not enough for a smile, hi, hi, hi.

One time I picked up a character whose facial expression was part of the morph. Like, I was stuck using that expression. Made it work, but boy was that limiting.

I remember a similar situation, it was a well established Daz3d PA, and I relaly liked the female characters look, but she the face and head morph looked just aweful from the side view or any non straight on angle. I kept the product but i deicded to not buy from that PA again.
I will not mention the name.

I know what you mean. I'm constantly lamenting the lack of octogenarian figures, on the verge of expiration - truly an underserved market. It's a terrible thing that the world finds certain things attractive and others less so, unless there is a niche fetish for it that some vendor might serve.

Possibly the saturation of certain types of figures speaks to their popularity and salability? And the dearth of others the opposite? I'm merely speculating of course.

While AI is not always something to aspire to, it can be a useful tool, and is in a constant state of flux, always it seems improving. If it does something to help keep our niche hobby alive, I'm not certain I can complain.

Nobody was asking why certain figures sell; the point was that some vendors may be ripping off other artists and getting away with it. Something being profitable doesn't make it legitimate, and your little lecture about market demand does absolutely nothing to address that.

Alas, sarcasm is a lost art it seems - as you chose to ignore the initial part of my comment.

I would scarcely call the second line a lecture, little or otherwise, merely a commentary on the last part of your post.

While my last line is more directed toward your middle point. True, I didn't address your points in order, but I didn't feel compelled to somehow.

I would grant that perhaps your initial premise is not without some validity.

In any event, you're the one who brought up topics unrelated to 'stolen' characters (or in this case I would say textures I guess), instead crapping on seven different vendors who apparently make their own stuff and sell consistently and well, so possibly the market for what they make is broader than for the style Feng produces - otherwise we'd see more of that, wouldn't we?

Irrespective of market saturation, all of the PAs on Daz especially, but here too have a tendency to produce characters that have a familial likeness to one another that makes them if not related, then at least identifiable to the artist who created them. There are only a few who don't and it's possible that it's simply because they have yet to produce many figures yet. Interestingly, the one area where I would claim this doesn't happen are celebrity likenesses, because they tend to be unique from one another. Take RKStudio for instance, they're fairly identifiable as being from them, but don't look like each other. TotoCandy too. HID3D is pretty good at making unique figures as well.

Suuuuuuuuuure, most of them make 0 budget products (clones of clones of clones) but their promos are similar because they hired a promo artist...

I wondered about that, I never got around to asking what the deal was. Thanks for the info.

That can be a good thing and a bad thing. I know there have been some products here that never saw light of day on other places because of some seemingly-arbitrary reason or another.

Now that I think about it... I need to learn how to make green textures, I can fix that easily, but ufff, I've spent almost two weeks in just my next character lips and I'm still unsatisfied

@luxe
pour faire une texture verte il n'y a rien à apprendre, photoshop le fait très bien avec un calque vert !
Pour la retouche photo tu peux me faire confiance, d'une photo presque parfaite de la transforme en un truc immonde en 3 clics souris