Kaylee 8

ArgleSW

In the following item, it says it has morphs for Kaylee 8.

https://www.daz3d.com/classic-biker-gear-two-for-genesis-8-females ;

I assume this is the next character?

scorpio

She came out a while ago

https://www.daz3d.com/karyssa-8

 

ArgleSW

I confused that at first, but there is a Karyssa and a Kaylee in the list. Unless it was a typo.

Mescalino

It is possible that Kaylee is going to be the new main character

scorpio

arglesw007 said:

I confused that at first, but there is a Karyssa and a Kaylee in the list. Unless it was a typo.

Opps yep sorry - much too early in the morning.

Ghosty12

Also notice there is mention of Mika 8 as well..

Mescalino

ghosty12 said:

Also notice there is mention of Mika 8 as well..

That name sounds verry promissing. We may finaly get an asian female character.

RCDeschene

patrick.dewijs said:

ghosty12 said:

Also notice there is mention of Mika 8 as well..

That name sounds verry promissing. We may finaly get an asian female character.

Except Mika is already an established fae character here...

https://www.daz3d.com/mika-7

Noah LGP

The next week should be a male figure and the following female figures could be Kaylee 8 and/or Mika 8.

Mescalino

RCDeschene said:

patrick.dewijs said:

That name sounds verry promissing. We may finaly get an asian female character.

Except Mika is already an established fae character here...

https://www.daz3d.com/mika-7

Hmm We have enough of those.

tj_1ca9500b

patrick.dewijs said:

ghosty12 said:

Also notice there is mention of Mika 8 as well..

That name sounds verry promissing. We may finaly get an asian female character.

 

Umm, several Asian females have been released in the Daz store already for Genesis 8.  Sure, they aren't getting the pro bundle treatment, but they are people too!

In fact, just this week...

https://www.daz3d.com/minako-for-genesis-8-female

There's also (if you do a search for 'asian genesis 8' in the Daz store)...

• https://www.daz3d.com/ej-midori-for-genesis-8-female
• https://www.daz3d.com/myeong-for-genesis-8-female
• https://www.daz3d.com/hyuna-for-genesis-8-female
• https://www.daz3d.com/minami-hd-and-minami-hair-for-genesis-8-females
• https://www.daz3d.com/jiao-for-genesis-8-female
• https://www.daz3d.com/ly-kumiko-hd-for-genesis-8-female
• https://www.daz3d.com/michiko-hd-for-genesis-8-female
• https://www.daz3d.com/mirai-bundle
• https://www.daz3d.com/chanmi-for-genesis-8-female
• https://www.daz3d.com/mia-for-genesis-3-and-8-female
• https://www.daz3d.com/asia-dials-n-smiles-for-genesis-8-female-s
• https://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/asian-female-faces-morphs-for-genesis-8-female/122274
• https://www.daz3d.com/neko-bonus-bundle
• https://www.daz3d.com/ps-onishi-for-genesis-8-female--victoria-8

There's also (for you Aiko 8 detractors)

• https://www.daz3d.com/aq-yumi-for-aiko-8
• https://www.daz3d.com/nyao-for-aiko-8
• https://www.daz3d.com/lurya-for-aiko-8

And on the male side, there are of course less males, which is typical for Planet Daz in general - the ratio of women to men in Dazland is what, approximately 4 to 1?...

• https://www.daz3d.com/ej-hiroshi-and-masao-for-genesis-8-male
• https://www.daz3d.com/ej-ethnic-male-beauty-for-genesis-8-male (one Asian, one Polynesian)
• https://www.daz3d.com/people-of-earth-faces-of-asia-genesis-8-male

And that's just here in the Daz store.  There are a bunch more available through other vendors for Genesis 8... I've posted about several of them before.

 

Now as for an Asian character that might meet your particular vision of what an Asian is supposed to look like... well keep in mind that Asia is a very big place, with a lot of diversity, even amongst Asians... Also, your statement could be considered as insulting to the PAs that labored hard on their particular characters.

It might help if you qualify your statement in the future and say 'an Asian character that is getting the full Pro bundle treatment'.  None of us are counting the Aiko 8 base charactger as Asian (a mix maybe), and Sakura 8 is more Anime anyways... so if this is what you meant, yeah it's high time for Lee 8 Pro, Mei Lin 8 Pro, etc.  Heck, maybe we can get a blast from the past and someone will crank out a Hiro 8 Pro character...

 

tj_1ca9500b

patrick.dewijs said:

ghosty12 said:

Also notice there is mention of Mika 8 as well..

That name sounds verry promissing. We may finaly get an asian female character.

 

Umm, several Asian females have been released in the Daz store already for Genesis 8.  Sure, they aren't getting the pro bundle treatment, but they are people too!

In fact, just this week...

https://www.daz3d.com/minako-for-genesis-8-female

There's also (if you do a search for 'asian genesis 8' in the Daz store)...

• https://www.daz3d.com/ej-midori-for-genesis-8-female
• https://www.daz3d.com/myeong-for-genesis-8-female
• https://www.daz3d.com/hyuna-for-genesis-8-female
• https://www.daz3d.com/minami-hd-and-minami-hair-for-genesis-8-females
• https://www.daz3d.com/jiao-for-genesis-8-female
• https://www.daz3d.com/ly-kumiko-hd-for-genesis-8-female
• https://www.daz3d.com/michiko-hd-for-genesis-8-female
• https://www.daz3d.com/mirai-bundle
• https://www.daz3d.com/chanmi-for-genesis-8-female
• https://www.daz3d.com/mia-for-genesis-3-and-8-female
• https://www.daz3d.com/asia-dials-n-smiles-for-genesis-8-female-s
• https://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/asian-female-faces-morphs-for-genesis-8-female/122274
• https://www.daz3d.com/neko-bonus-bundle
• https://www.daz3d.com/ps-onishi-for-genesis-8-female--victoria-8

And there's also (for you Aiko 8 detractors)

• https://www.daz3d.com/aq-yumi-for-aiko-8
• https://www.daz3d.com/nyao-for-aiko-8
• https://www.daz3d.com/lurya-for-aiko-8

And on the male side, there are of course less males, which is typical for Planet Daz in general - the ratio of women to men in Dazland is what, approximately 4.5 to 1 to maybe 6 to 1, or even higher?...

• https://www.daz3d.com/ej-hiroshi-and-masao-for-genesis-8-male
• https://www.daz3d.com/ej-ethnic-male-beauty-for-genesis-8-male (one Asian, one Polynesian)
• https://www.daz3d.com/people-of-earth-faces-of-asia-genesis-8-male

And that's just here in the Daz store.  There are a bunch more available through other vendors for Genesis 8... I've posted about several of them before.

 

Now as for an Asian character that might meet your particular vision of what an Asian is supposed to look like... well keep in mind that Asia is a very big place, with a lot of diversity, even within nationalities... Also, your statement could be considered as insulting to the PAs that labored hard on their particular characters.

It might help if you qualify your statement in the future and say 'an Asian character that is getting the full Pro bundle treatment'.  None of us are counting the Aiko 8 base character as Asian (a mix maybe), and Sakura 8 is more Anime anyways... so if this is what you meant, yeah it's high time for Lee 8 Pro, Mei Lin 8 Pro, etc.  Heck, maybe we can get a blast from the past and someone will crank out a Hiro 8 Pro character...

 

JOdel

I do have to admit that Kaylee does sound like a Thorne name. Might not be a Thorne character after all, but the name certainly sounds like one. Sounds young, as well. 

But then, what's in a name? 

G8 does have a high representation of stylized characters, but there are a lot of styles of stylization that haven't been touched on yet. (Now I'm suddenly wondering if Kaylee, could be related to Callie?)

dragotx

JOdel said:

I do have to admit that Kaylee does sound like a Thorne name. Might not be a Thorne character after all, but the name certainly sounds like one. Sounds young, as well. 

But then, what's in a name? 

G8 does have a high representation of stylized characters, but there are a lot of styles of stylization that haven't been touched on yet. (Now I'm suddenly wondering if Kaylee, could be related to Callie?)

See, I was thinking more plucky space mechanic ;)

nonesuch00

Well where I'm from Kaylee is not such a young name anymore. They'll have to come up with some new ones.

tj_1ca9500b

dragotx said:

JOdel said:

I do have to admit that Kaylee does sound like a Thorne name. Might not be a Thorne character after all, but the name certainly sounds like one. Sounds young, as well. 

But then, what's in a name? 

G8 does have a high representation of stylized characters, but there are a lot of styles of stylization that haven't been touched on yet. (Now I'm suddenly wondering if Kaylee, could be related to Callie?)

 

See, I was thinking more plucky space mechanic ;)

Mmmmmm, Jewel Staite... I've enjoyed the roles I've seen her play.  OK mainly the two biggies (SG, FF).  She's often doing bit parts here and there on other shows.

Noah LGP

I already imagine the face of Kaylee...

http://www.jaguars.com/cheerleaders/Kaylee/db011211-9695-4252-8402-c8488783ac74

nonesuch00

There uniforms are too noisy. All them jaguar spots makes them look cheap.

EJWorks

Well, Mika 8 was released first. I'm hoping we get a new male character set soon. Particularly I'm wanting Kenji 8 and a proper male counter part to Sakura. After that a break from the styliezed characters for ethnic based models would be greatly apreciated. If Kaylee is a releasitc character maybe a black teen character? If she's stylized and is a new Callie character I want a similarly updated Cory to go with her. But honestly I'm getting tired of the new named characters and would like to see some more previous generations revisited. Since they brought back Stephanie, why not David 8, Scott 8, Hiro 8, The Freak 8, Callie 8, and Cory 8? I loved Leo 7, I'm crushed they didn't release a Leo 8 right after Olympia's update. I could rant forever on this if I don't stop now.

Maybe we'll get Kaylee next, maybe we'll get some suprises first and see her later in summer. If she is a youthful character a summer fun theme might suit her.

 

JOdel

"Name recognition" is probably a good marketing tool for selling different iterations of models with the same name. But it always seems to generate either a firestorm in the forums that the new version isn't like the old one, or that the new version it too much like the old one (so why does one need it).

At present DAZ appears unable to make up its mind as to whether they are going to keep riding the name recognition train or play a game of "new generation, new names".

And in the past couple of months they's added a whole new paradigm with the "Character 7 for Character 8" packages. Which, frankly, confuses everything.

Now, from where I am standing; I would *HAPPILY* pick up a "Character 7 for Genesis 8 base" for any of the G3 characters (and several of the G2 characters or even some G1 morphs that were gven the "official" treatment). Particularly if they weren't intending to re-issue a new version of that named character. Or, even if they were. The new iterations, after all, have been changed just to be making changes.

I mean, come on, it's not like they wouldn't be *able* to do it. It's well within their capabilities. And such a product would be particularly valuable to get those official skins with the unique UVs onto the standard G8 (or looking down the road, G9 or later) base. 

Go on and release new official morphs with bundles, name the morphs anything you please. But if people want to keep their old characters as well, and get the advantage of the new tech, this seems to be the way to do it.