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Nadine 9 comes ashore with her underwater themed set. The Add-On bundle, is of course, the best of the two. Mertail looks very lovely.
• Nadine 9
• Nadine 9 HD Character Bundle
• Nadine 9 HD Add-On Bundle
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In b4 "Oh it's another white female" comments.
What about "Oh it's another mermaid" comments ;p? https://www.daz3d.com/calypso-9-character-bundle
Nadine 9 is more or less the usual white run-of-the-mill girl; this time with a slight Mediterranean twist. Oh well. The interesting items in the Character Bundle are Soto’s Abyssa Hair and Barbara Brundon’s Enchanting Ethereal Outfit (without the high heels). I think I’ll use my Premier coupon on the Nadine bundle.
The Add-on Bundle looks very well done. I own mermaids from every generation since V4, and although I rarely use any of them, I always want to have them, lol. Especially when their bundles include such great looking items as Aqualune Mermaid Tail, Atlantean HD and XI Underwater City.
“The perfect figure to add to your collection… beach model, athlete, or the girl next door.”
Yep, another Thursday, and the cookie cutter is still razor sharp. Nadine drops in wiht a certain commitment to the formula: thin, pale, inoffensive, and meticulously unremarkable. Not bad, not great, just… assembled.
Nadine could absolutely be a Shooting Star and no one would blink. You keep looking for something, a quirk, a risk, a spark, but it never quite arrives. It’s not that she isn’t well made, it’s that she feels algorithmically safe, as if every edge has been carefully sanded down to avoid the risk of being memorable.
Her Atlantean add-on leans into that same surface level approach. The idea (amphibious detailing, scales, fins, gills, tail) should be a chance to break the mold, but instead it comes across like decorative layering rather than true integration. The scales read more like a paint over than a biological surface, and the tail feels less grown than attached, as if it was snapped on rather than evolved from the base form. It’s detail without cohesion, complexity without conviction.
And it’s hard not to notice the contrast when you think back to figures like Sylvia Dryad or Tara Succubus, characters where sculpt, materials, added elements, and overall concept felt genuinely cohesive, where someone clearly pushed beyond the safe center. Those weren’t just themed presets; they carried intent, texture, and a distinct point of view. Nadine, by comparison, feels less like a design meant to stand out and more like one optimized not to offend, lacking the same sense of direction that figures like Ava Harpy or Valenia Dragonscale managed to convey.
That said, the newer outfits do land better. They’re visually striking and lean into the fantasy, they scream aquatic couture at a glance. There’s a clear aesthetic intention there that the base character and the add-on struggles to match. Even so, some elements feel like they ran out of time to fully resolve them, with certain details reading more suggested than finished.
You can tell this isn’t a lack of skill on the artists’ part, but rather the constraints of the mold they’re working within, one that limits the kind of artistic freedom that has led to genuinely standout releases like the ones we saw in recent years, the ones we don't wishlist but we insta-buy on release day.
Meh... I'm not too enthused.
Having the majority of G9 figures it just doesn't feel like this adds anything I don't already have in duplicate already.
Mermaid, check. Not even the first Daz Original in this category.
Lizard/aquatic skin, check. There's at least 2 PA skins that do this better.
Attractive 25 year old caucasian girl, check.
The tail has a clear seam at the top so it doesn't even look attached to the body?
The costumes look interesting but they're too niche for me to find any real use for. Props to Daz for releasing them though, as niche items are a double edged sword - I'll be excited for niche when it applies to my use case :)
So, you guys are seeing another white girl? I suppose she could pass for white without much scrutiny in the melting pot of the Western world, but I saw her as Central Asian immediately. She could easily be Indonesian or Filipina.
I think you're right, for me it just feels like I have that skin tone already, and I have that general face shape and body shape.
I bet if I dug around in my G9 originals toy box I could make some combination of 2-3 other characters that are borderline indistinguishable.
doesn't look white to me
could even be Mongolian like the girl band Otyken with black hair and brows
She doesn’t really read as "white girl" to me. Her features feel more in line with what you might see in parts of Asia. At the same time, they’re quite ambiguous overall, and she actually reminds me a bit of Xiao 9 in that sense. I think it really depends on what each person is used to seeing.
I'm unsure if I should get Nadine when she is on Premier or go for Sigrid instead. I have to make a decission before the month ends right? Is Nadine going to be available soon with coupon?
I agree, I though Filipina when I first saw her.
I think she's cute, and quite like the add-on bundle too. The outfit in the character bundle is nice (though the heels on sand are ridiculous) but I don't see myself using it much...
New core figures are usually added in the category on first day, but we might need to wait for Daz to be in office.
So..."Yet Another Fantasy Creature Sold Without Their Fantasy Trappings (unless you buy 2 bundles)." Maybe I'll WL the add-on. Or just stick with https://www.daz3d.com/adria-for-genesis-8-female & Sickleyield's merfolk sets.
I thought it was at least interesting to look at, though as always I have to giggle at the advertising copy that basically says "the character is this! Or, you know, potentially anything else!" ...no sheep, Sherlock. You can in fact do whatever you want with the asset beyond what the promos suggest. Shocker.
I don't have any plans for underwater, but I do like https://www.daz3d.com/bw-sea-queen-outfit-for-genesis-9 as half of a Mara/Aquaman cosplay (which I DO have a use for, though not an urgent enough one to get it at new release price). Now I just need the Aquaman half. Maybe we'll get that with a merman in one of the forthcoming releases?
For G8F, I preferred her: https://www.daz3d.com/naia-hd-for-genesis-8-female
I really wish someone would make a mermaid tail that's just a regular fish tail, without all the extra fins on the sides and everywhere. Also the fade from scales to skin just looks so completely unrealistic.
The thing with the extra fins is a matter of taste, and I don't see a bad transition to the body on the promo pics. But I think that you can add the extra fins or leave them out; they are separate 'clothing pieces'.
What bothers me are the dark promo pics on which it is difficult to see what is shown. An old problem with the promos of Mada, who really doesn't need to hide her excellent work.
Yes, the fortnightly releases have been numerous enough that even a niche category like mermaid has been rehashed.
Is mermaid more popular than centaur or minotaur? Curious enough to ask without being interested enough to ever buy a half-human/half-whatever.
More probably less complicated to develop. I have little use for half-whatevers myself either, but I do find them interesting concepts. Centaurs and minotaurs are already tricky to develop: more limbs, people will constantly compare the hindquarters of the centaurs with real horses, requiring a lot of research. I'm already pretty amazed there are several (2 or 3) human-spider hybrids around. But I still wouldn't expect a fully posable Sphynx with a proper lion-body anytime soon.
I will get both bundles, but the add-on will have to wait for more money. sad face, lol
Almost everyonne's heard of a mermaid, but hardly anyoone have heard of centaurs, or minotaurs.
For 3D I couldn't say, but in real life? Yes. There's an entire industry based on mermaid cosplay, and I know people who are professional mermaids who perform at events. (My social circles are... interesting, to say the least. But hekkin' cool.)
I like the fading scales at the hips, it looked somewhat seamless :) The number of tail fins is superfluous.
As a kid (c. 2 million years before plesiosaurs & c. 3 million years before Disney World), my parents used to take me every year to https://weekiwachee.com/ home of the original mermaid cosplayers, who got paid minimum wage (then, no idea about now). I got to take me kids once even. And somewhere in our household chaos, resides my mermaid & manatee shirt I got on that visit.
Disclaimers: it was actually c. 10 years pre-Disney World when that tradition started and I don't feel like going into my dinosaurs-for-grownups book to see when plesiosaurus actually lived.
Agreed, though with the singular exception of the Filatoon character, I've generally preferred every Core Character made for G8 over the G9 eqivalent.
Beg to differ. I read vraciously as a kid. And stories from the Hellenic period had Minators, centaurs and other critters. Mer-folk of various ilk are in legends all around the European waters. Of course it helped that my parents gave me access to their library of books, bought the Britannica Encyclopedia for us and subscribed to various magazines. I lucked out not having a daughter and my son wanted nothing to do with the Disney movies. He was more into Japanese robots and sports.
Yes, Greek mythology is never seen in popular culture, is it?
Heh... the Disney phase is a mixed blessing. Cinderella and Snow White made me want to put my ears out with a spork, but some of the newer ones are pretty awesome. And I got the singular challenge of keeping a straight face when one of their pretend games involved teaming up with Rapunzel and Cinderella to go help Belle fight Gaston. Rapunzel had brought an extra couple frying pans to use, but Cinderella didn't need one because she could just use her broken glass slipper.
And I'm sitting there like... okay, zero idea where kiddo got that idea... unexpectedly punk, good use of available resources... Gaston is doomed.
The mermaid phase was a bit much, though. And I had the disconcerting realization that Sebastian the crab was no longer comic relief. He was the most relatable character in the movie.