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Kayla 9 is on her way to Granmama's house. Nice looking character. A bit lite on the assets, however.
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I'll wait for her to show up in the bundle coupon list... but yeah she's nice:-)
She seems cute and not overly sexualized, I might want to get her actually. I have a nagging feeling though that we did get that sort of character for G9 already a little while ago ...? I'll have to wait till I'm on my PC where I can get that great bookmarklet to work that shows only owned items to check. Or can anyone tell off the top of their head?
Kayla 9 is adorable. I actually didn't want to buy any more female core figures for Genesis 9, but I couldn't resist this charming little beauty.
In fact, I received three character bundles “for free” this month: the normal Premier Coupon Bundle (I chose Carter 9), the Extra Bundle (for me that was Xola 9) – and now Kayla 9, because I still had the DO Coupon. I combined that with 8 tokens. Thank you, Daz!
What gets me is the Juliet Starling costume in the add-on bundle
I guess I'll be using my coupon on Victoria 9.
I think it's mainly the name that's confusing. Kala 9, Kara 9, Kayla 9 – it's hard to keep track. But I also see some resemblance to Angela 9, especially in the en face picture.
Will she be available with the free premier character coupon this month, because I didn't use it and she is not on the list until now....
They seem to be usually added to the list later on the release day. Keep an eye on the selection or the sales reporting thread.
As for the character, I like her looks and that she'd not some bombshell. Buuuut... She's so young! Looks like in her late teens. I need more mature (but not old) characters, especially female characters (because there seems to be slightly more males). Feng's +50 characters are really nice, but they're +50. Daz's population seems to be severly lacking 30-45 women.
tsroemi are you thinking about Asha 9? To me, they're quite different.
Kayla is very cute, and I like the examples mixing her with other core characters.
I'll certainly get the character, might get the character bundle as I rather like the braid too, though I have zero use for the included outfit.
thank you!
I guess she's okay but I don't need more teen girl characters. And there's nothing else in either bundle that strikes my fancy.
I like her a lot. She has a face that looks like it wasn't morphed from a previous model, great skin texture, and her bundles have some usable items outside of Halloween. I was expecting a Halloween themed release like a witch or mummy, but I think this is better.
She's very slender but has a large chest and pronounced curves around the hips and bottom - something of an unrealistic beauty standard.
I'd say she's actually quite a bit more sexualized than average for G9. (That's not a problem, assuming she's intended to be late teens to early or mid twenties.)
For a somewhat similar but younger character that isn't sexualized, you might be thinking of Virtual_World's recent release Tina for Genesis 9 (from September).
I like her. Very good skin quality, but that is true of most of the base characters.
I am not sure what ethnicity they were aiming at. At first I thought she looked Indian, hence my confusion over why she would be bundled with a red riding hood costume. However Kala 9 is the Indian lady, and we have already had her. I still think she looks kind of Indian, with maybe a bit of African mixed in. Would be odd to have such similar names as Kala and Kayla to both be Indian.
My first impression was North African. And I think Kayla may be a Semitic name, which could place her around there. Her eyebrows seem to be from somewhere around the Mediterranian? I also see a bit of Ariana Grande in her. Or a Southern European/Sub-Saharan African influence. I think she could be from absolutely anywhere with a little tweak here and there, to shape or skin.
I'm going to stick my neck out and say that her skin looked more European, the consensus would be average and little different to many other Daz Originals. She is beautiful in that safe Daz Original way - her facial proportions are perfect and symmetrical and she has a very attractive nose, but I can't help but feel those make her a little generic too. Particularly her nose. There are promos of her in Indian, Meso-American, North American and European scenes, and she doesn't look out of place in any of those but also just doesn't quite fit.
I'm not blown away, but she is well done and I'll pick her bundle up for the skin and the hair, and for mixing her shape. The HD morph is approaching raw.
Does anyone know what the corn row hair is that she has in some of the promos?
At first, I thought it was XYZ Low Ponytail Dreadlocks but it's different. Maybe something not yet released?
dForce Hesba Hair for Genesis 9 by Magic Brush.
The Premier coupon can now be used to get the Kayla 9 character bundle for free. Thank you, Daz.
if i had my DO coupon I think I would buy it outright and save my free bundle coupon for something else, especially at $26 for the bundle right now. ACTUALLY, its going into my cart at $14.04. with the 20% banner deal applied, and down to $9.13 with my 7 tokens... not bad..or free if I had my $10 DO coupon, keeping my bundle coupon for something else. That won;t work though on the 1st of the month.
$8.32 with 26+ stackers, 8 tokens, & 20% banner
I usually don't buy the character bundles, last time was for Miki 9 as he was on the heals of Viki 9, since I have a Premier Membership I usually wait, but I bought this one as she mixes so well with Pixie 9.
It was a no brainer to use the Premier coupon for the character bundle, since it was use it or lose it, although it would have been only $9 with the various discounts I already had, then added the add-on bundle for the same $9.00. Overall I like the figure well enough, but most of the bundle elements felt like generic items that just happened to be available rather than specific to the character. Honestly, I just finished a heavy period of forcing myself to use the G9s just to get used to their idiosyncrasies, but the end result of all that was that I decided that G3/G8 really is a much better system for what I do, so I don't know how much I'll ever use some of this stuff.
She's a beautiful character, though i agree a little "plain" - Better than lots of the recent girl DO characters, i think. The DO male models seem to have been funkier just lately. Her skin looks fantastic and she does seem to mix really well, which is always handy.
Yes, thank you, I believe it was Tina I had in mind! But you're right, she's very much younger. So Kayla's really a nice addition. @caravelle, yeah, the names are getting confusing for sure ... @joanna, thanks for the Asha suggestion! I'd also say she's rather distinct though.
Concerning the 'sexualized', I was talking about the face - no overly pouting lips, a mouth that actually closes, no permanent bed eyes and such. I hadn't much looked at the body at all, these new nude pictures make me so uncomfortable (like suprising people i haven't even been introduced to yet in the bath by accident). Squinting at them now, I do see what you mean of course. I mostly don't use the provided body morphs, just the faces, so I don't mind her style too much there.
Edit: Oh forgot, @joanna again, I absolutely agree about the missing age range 30-45 or so for women! Maybe it's harder to achieve a convincing result there? You cannot just give them flawless skin, but you can also not give them pronounced wrinkles -? I have no idea really, but they're sorely missed by me as well.
For 30-45, I just dial in 5-10% of a favorite male character's head.
A lot of it could be achieved not via skin but shaping. Women in their 30s can still be done as attractive with flawless skin, but their faces lose that 20-something roundess and smoothness (as my husband calls it, "baby fat"), especially when they are slim. If they are not, that fat starts to show differently too.
Oooh, I'll have to try it. I usually just nudge the aging morph (5-10% too) and then adjust with various face morphs.
I thought the textures were ok, they seem versatile. The sculpt/morph is pretty bland, but she does look nice in some of the blended character renders. The lips don't work for me, they look and move like they are overfilled.
The Keysha add-on has dropped, and also I rendered her next to young Karmen.
Potrait, swapped out eyebrows and and eyelashes. The pony tail looks likea a PA Princess one, but I could be wrong. It is posed manually with bones and has no presets.
Boy version with a dial-spin guy, using Kayla's skin mats and one of the Jepe body hair geoshells.
(Big versions attached)
Oh, I get it: Kayla goes with Carter as a Dune duo. Thanks for the lovely renders as usual, @sid!