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I am skipping on Callie, which is actually a first for me in the 6th generation. She is just too close to Girl 6 on many accounts and I have more than enough morph options to get something close to her.
This is what I'm looking for only with the Tiami texture, if you don't mind. Appreciate you posting.
Here she is:
Callie 6 Base:
Tiami Mat/Shader
Vickie 6 at 100% and
Callie at 0%
This basically gained Tiami a place in my shopping cart :) Thank you for that!
Ha! In relation to what I mentioned about Chris Sanders, I just read this on the Pinup Callie 6 Product Page "20 Poses for Callie 6 Inspired by Chris Sander's pinups." So, I guess I was right.
I love Chris Sanders work. His Lilo & Stitch characters were our inspiration for Alani although the promos dont show it -.- Another set is also coming soon thats very inspired by his art. I am not a huge fan of the Girl in general but I really adore Callie. She feels like a softer more feminine version to me. She blends really well with the other G2 shapes which i really like. One of my renders for Alani -
Okay, so even the PA's are admitting that Callie has a Disney aesthetic to her. Once again, I called it! :)
Although, The Princess Tiana look was a obvious, of course, and many of us do pick-up Elsa or Anna from default face, but I did not think Lilo & Stitch from Alani. So, thanks for pointing that out.
Also, it's just dawning on me: is it possible that the reason why she's named "Callie" is perhaps a reference to the state of California, where Pixar and Disney's studios are located?
Possibly, but that wouldn't explain the corresponding 'Cory' designation. :)
Cory just sounds like the name of a typical surfer dude. :)
She seems to have a slight update, today. Wonder what that's for.
The texture was somewhat improved.
Heh. Yeah, as soon as I saw the base body, especially in the i13 Playful Pinup Poses for Callie 6 promos, I thought "Chris Sanders pin-up". Then I saw that your character for her was Hawaiian and that just further confirmed it for me. It wasn't until the next day that i saw the other pose package that has the description about being based on his poses.
In looking at the Base Promos, her face isn't as off putting as at first. The 2nd close-up and the last image on the base page aren't as flattering. I find certain expressions and textures not as appealing on her, but overall, I like her. She is a great blend with The Girl 6 and the realistic characters. I like that her mouth blends more smoothly with other characters. I like the Girl 6's lips. It is just nice that there can more than 1 shape blended into the realistic characters now to make them cartoon-like. She is definitely different enough than The Girl 6 to make her a worthwhile purchase. If the texture wasn't still pixely and had just a little more smoothing/blending in some of the flushed areas, it would look very nice. When I looked at the promos, I thought it was just the way it was rendered. As stated earlier, it is indeed the texture. I appreciate that they fixed some of the flaws in the texture. No more white dots or lines down the thigh.
...but she's still way to voluptuous for any of the main Pixar female characters. Even Queen Elanor in Brave was still rather slender. If Girl6's breasts were difficult to reduce in size without mesh distortion, Callie's look like they'd present a similar issue.
With the right hair and dress, she would make a great Jessica Rabbit though.
I've actually been using custom-dials of Girl 6, along with some of her related characters, to create a Jessica.
I'd quite like a way to narrow the face of Girl and Callie (and G2F in general, when necessary). If Callie had a narrow/slender face, she'd have probably avoided the Girl comparisons.
Also presently trying to do a version of Ariel ('Little Mermaid), but she has a much more distinctive jaw, which might take a while to figure out how to morph and craft.
I guess I just don't see the Disney toon look as sexy, so kind of wish they went with a different look with this pack, since we already had a sexy toon in Girl.
Trying out some facial morphs on her.
I'm born and raised in California. For years I would hear people say they came from this place called Cali. Finally one day I said, where is this Cali of which you speak. They laughed at me and said, why California, of course. I said, I've never heard it called that. So I asked were they born in California? No, they weren't. The more people who called California Cali, the more told me they had moved here. Unfortunately, now so many transplants use it that even natives begin to call it Cali.
I probably feel about California being called Cali as much as San Franciscans dislike their city being called Frisco.
I seriously doubt Callie is anything but what it is: a name they thought would be cool to use. You guys try so hard to make something out of everything. Heh.
(BTW, if you happened to see that your post got edited, my bad, I thought I hit quote and had hit edit instead. Apologies on that.)
Definitely like the Callie mix with V6 or other mix approach. Looks very good as posted previously. Callie by herself looks a bit young for nude or provocative renders I think as well endowed and appealing as she is in that way. I'll likely would stay away from that because of her youthful look, frame and height.
...but she's still way to voluptuous for any of the main Pixar female characters. Even Queen Elanor in Brave was still rather slender. If Girl6's breasts were difficult to reduce in size without mesh distortion, Callie's look like they'd present a similar issue.
With the right hair and dress, she would make a great Jessica Rabbit though.
As mentioned earlier in the thread, she contains quite a few fixer MCMs including the breast small and breast gone morphs, so its super easy to make her breasts smaller (or completely gone) without distortion. The most problem area is the lips, which are hard to dial out entirely, but that makes it even worse for trying to match Disney since their lips are pretty much lines.
Here's Callie after 30 seconds of dialing.
Yes, she does look good in the Jessica Rabbit dress!! I did up a pose the day after she came out.
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/55527/
:-)
I'm born and raised in California. For years I would hear people say they came from this place called Cali. Finally one day I said, where is this Cali of which you speak. They laughed at me and said, why California, of course. I said, I've never heard it called that. So I asked were they born in California? No, they weren't. The more people who called California Cali, the more told me they had moved here. Unfortunately, now so many transplants use it that even natives begin to call it Cali.
I probably feel about California being called Cali as much as San Franciscans dislike their city being called Frisco.
I seriously doubt Callie is anything but what it is: a name they thought would be cool to use. You guys try so hard to make something out of everything. Heh.
(BTW, if you happened to see that your post got edited, my bad, I thought I hit quote and had hit edit instead. Apologies on that.)
Well, of course we do! That's usually all that we get for speculating these characters with until we see actually see them. Plus, usually the characters names do have a habit of directly reflecting their themed niche: Victoria['s Secret] is the name of a women's lingerie line, Stephanie is a typical everyday name, Aiko is a classic anime name, as is the name Keiko, "The Girl" is the toon "Girl Next Door", Gia is the wrestler Gina Carano, Olympia is a voluptuous Greek goddess, Giselle is a famous ballet named after the main protagonist, Lilith is a tempting seductress, Mei Lin is obviously Chinese, Monique is a French name alluded to black nationalities like Haitian, and Josie and Belle just sound like typical modern girl names. Now we have Callie, the Cali-born Disney/Pixar Studio girl. :)
But like I pointed out, that wouldn't explain why her male equivalent is being named 'Cory'. Same as how 'Belle' and 'Brodie' don't seem to have much significance to their shapes, either.
And I still maintain that the only thing about Lilith which is even slightly suggestive of darkness, are some included cosmetic options. :) She can be dressed up in a really pretty dress and given girly cosmetics (or none) and would look just as goodly as Giselle does in fairy wings. As a shape, there's zero about Lilith which makes her some kind of obvious choice for witches/vampires/whatever.
Succubus? Siren?
Anything supernatural in nature. Same way as, while she's hyped as such, I don't see anything specifically goddess/mythical-like about Olympia. They're just different shapes. But you could just as easily use Victoria or any of the others for both of those roles.
Cosmetics/hair/clothing are effectively interchangeable.
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That's a bit of a stretch.
Not specific.
Well, I think "we" is pretty narrowly defined on that one.
Honestly, most of the figures representing ethnic groups that are minorities in the US get [stereo)typical names, but although most of the others can be post-justified I don't think may of them could predict the figure or be predicted by someone knowing the figure but not its name.
This kind of figures are perfect for NOT USE AT 100% of such dialed parameters, they are more useful for a combination with another morphs, this example speaks by itself.
and yep, sex sells, that's why Daz creates only busty figures, for the lazy people asking for a new male figure, there is a TON of parameters waiting for you to move!!, don't be shy to experiment.
I don't think people are lazy for asking for male figures.
...heck, I created an 8 year old version of my Leela character using just ol' Vicky4 and Thorne's Tommi (the clothing fits ended up being more of a pain than building the character as technically, she was still V4 and much of the upper body content didn't like being dialed down to a flat chested physique even with DFormers).
Also did a fusion of Toon Girl Sadie and Aiko3.
...and that was back in the Daz 2.3 days when there were not even tools like the figure mixer or morph follower let alone the ability to freely mix figures and morphs as well as dress them in almost anything we like with just a click or two like we have today.
Genesis and G2 have made it waaaaaaaaay easier.
That's a great looking character Zilver, and I agree with the mixing. Very few morphs look all that good at 100%, combining them is always best.
They certainly do not have to wait for DAZ to release a new male character to get a new male look though. You could make a Freak 6 or David 6 right now with the available PA morphs in the store and some dial turning. We *do* need to wait for a Hiro 6 because toon morphs are almost impossible to replicate with realistic morphs, and hopefully he or another male toon will come soon.
They certainly do not have to wait for DAZ to release a new male character to get a new male look though. You could make a Freak 6 or David 6 right now with the available PA morphs in the store and some dial turning. We *do* need to wait for a Hiro 6 because toon morphs are almost impossible to replicate with realistic morphs, and hopefully he or another male toon will come soon.
I agree. People who want male content often have to do their own dialing and be creative. But, at the same time gen 2 males especially M6 still have some basic figure flaws especially the early releases, that I hope newer figures such as D6 and F6 will address. I rarely use base male figures 'as is'. So I do do a lot of my own dialing, but that doesn't mean I can't use more morphs and more base shapes, and the skins and content that figure packs include.
That's ridiculous.
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That's a bit of a stretch.
Not specific.
Well, I think "we" is pretty narrowly defined on that one.
Honestly, most of the figures representing ethnic groups that are minorities in the US get [stereo)typical names, but although most of the others can be post-justified I don't think may of them could predict the figure or be predicted by someone knowing the figure but not its name.
Actually, from what I recall reading here a couples years back, Michael is possibly an allusion to a modeling company. Of course names like that are used by everyday people regardless, but names like "Victoria" have a classy prestige to them. How does a different developer change the fact that The Girl is still a retro 1940's Girl Next Door? A lot of Iconic Characters are buy-offs from other artists, especially these days. As for Gia, Jared explained in her release thread that she was directly inspired by the CEO at the time's admiration for the referenced wrestler. How can you not see the connection with Giselle? She's a ballet-dancing fairy with a name identical to a famous ballet. All of us speculators saw that one 10 miles away. As for some of the less obvious ones, sure, I'll coincide that Belle and Brodie threw us all off completely (very much so to the PA's amusement, of course), but given their modern youthful context, it makes more sense now. Also, despite Belle and Brodie's realistic look, they are Stylized-listed figures because they're also made to play the roles of Christmas Elves (Silver Bell[e]s anyone?). Honestly, I did pick-up on Monique just about right away. When I say "we" in regards to Callie, I mean that as a community we have her around on the official roster now whether we individually like/have her ourselves or not.
Actually, for those of you talking about Lilith and Giselle's fairy wings, funny enough, one of Lilith's uses in lore is being a Celtic/Nordic Fairy Queen. ;)