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Ah, there is a bit of connection of artists and their creations and fans tend to be very protective often with good reason. There is a character that I have purchased through several generations by a creator I greatly enjoy and I think the character looks like a grotesque. I had hoped to be able to mix in the DNA into other characters but I realized I didn't like the character. Nonetheless, I would probably be very careful about explaining my distaste to others who clearly like the character and find a use for him. I wouldn't criticize it in a thread where people discussing and praising the author but have no issue ihn a thread describing new purchases. It is much like meeting someone's new baby or new pet: you are complimentary to their face but, at home with discrete people, there is nothing wrong with a quick wry smile and an acknowledgment that people have unusual tastes.
Personally, I love Alice partly because she has a face that easily morphs into a load of ethnicities and races, she is distinctive (in my younger days, I would attend fashion shows and saw big name models who had amazing faces... Alice would do runway and magazine covers while Vicky would do local mall fliers). However, she isn't for all tastes.
Thank you to everyone that took the time to express their appreciation, it's been such a nice confidence boon.
This past June has been a cornerstone time for us, we've taken important decisions for the future and have been building towards it.
We look forward to the future!
We have definitely evolved and changed during the years as creators and shifted our focus, sometimes for creativity reasons, sometimes out of necessity.
We want creativity to be our main drive going forward.
Regardless of products and styles our core has always remained to try and do our best and improve, in some way, with each new product. Growing and / or expanding up as we create it's fundamental for us and has allowed us to push the boundaries of what can be done in Daz Studio (and Poser, in the past).
We're not particularly thin skinned at this point, we are open to criticism and, frankly, just want people to say whatever they want.
We're not going to feel hurt because some people may not like what we do, to hope to please everybody is foolish, as they say.
Just as happened in this thread, a genuine concern for confusion gave us the opportunity to share useful information and our viewpoints.
We're more than happy to do that!
As for Alice, perhaps we could write a little blog post about her, just to show our thought-process and dispel some myths. Her "retirement" was never based on anyone's criticism, but on our dissatisfaction with how she would perform pose-wise.
She was quite an extreme character in terms of V4 and too many times the bending and posing just would not look great.
As the years passed and we refined her, things greatly improved and that's why we finally re-released her at Rdna.
We were satisfied.
She is not based on anyone in particular. As someone noted, she's kind of a melting pot, with features belonging to different ethnicities. She's always been meant to be unique and not everyone's cup of tea, a unique kind of hero.
We had planned to get back into character creation for G8, but it just didn't happen, we focused on other lines of products.
It's still planned though and hopefully it will happen before the end of the year!
If someone is curious or dubious about something, we're glad to answer.
We are not shy to talk about what we do and how / why we do it as normally a lot of thought and consideration go in every decision.
Aeon Soul
You are welcome!
There are not many chances to discuss, but if it happens we're certainly open to it!