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Does anyone know where I can find darker skin characters?

slumberpartyfuntimeslumberpartyfuntime Posts: 10
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I need some darker skin daz characters and can only seem to find light ones. I need kind of a brown hispanic tone and a darker african one.

 

Does anyone know where I can find some? I've been seraching 

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  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,851

     What figure are they for?

  • Oso3DOso3D Posts: 15,098
    I really like Felicity.
  • FirstBastionFirstBastion Posts: 8,055

    http://www.daz3d.com/darius-6

    http://www.daz3d.com/monique-6

     

     

  • RobotHeadArtRobotHeadArt Posts: 917

    This thread has a link to a Google Docs file that has links to products here and at other stores http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewreply/6483/

  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232

    Depends on which figure base you're using. There are good ones for Genesis and Genesis2 (the ones FirstBastion mentioned are a good start), but Genesis3 is too new to have more than a handful so far.

  • BendinggrassBendinggrass Posts: 1,381

    Can it be done by tweaking the settings on a character.... to get a darker character?

  • D.RobinsonD.Robinson Posts: 283

    This character in practice is darker than the promo she has good skin and could be tweaked for Hispanic renders.

    http://www.daz3d.com/fwsa-rahele-hd-for-olympia-7

    Daniel

  • kyleforge_53ba91a483kyleforge_53ba91a483 Posts: 26
    Have a play with the skin textures in a photo editing software like Photoshop. Just play with hue/saturation :)
  • RawArtRawArt Posts: 6,145

    I would recommend this one for really dark

     

    http://www.daz3d.com/darrin-for-genesis-3-male

     

  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232
    Bendinggrass said:

    Can it be done by tweaking the settings on a character.... to get a darker character?

    It can (exact procedure depends on which program and which renderer you're using), but IMHO it never really looks properly realistic — different actual skin tones change in different ways on different parts of the body. And don't forget you'll need an appropriate face morph.

  • Oso3DOso3D Posts: 15,098
    edited April 2016

    Yeah. There are some interesting and important differences between certain types of skin. There's a difference between a dark-skinned white person and a light-skinned black person and how their skins look, even if the black person ends up lighter skinned than the white person.

    Mind you, you CAN 'move' the character of skin in various directions. Under some circumstances, you can take white skin and shift it to look mixed-race, or a bit asian (from light-skinned Indian to various more easterly regions). You can, similarly, tweak black skins to look like various Indian groups.

     

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  • j cadej cade Posts: 2,310
    timmins.william said:

    Yeah. There are some interesting and important differences between certain types of skin. There's a difference between a dark-skinned white person and a light-skinned black person and how their skins look, even if the black person ends up lighter skinned than the white person.

    Mind you, you CAN 'move' the character of skin in various directions. Under some circumstances, you can take white skin and shift it to look mixed-race, or a bit asian (from light-skinned Indian to various more easterly regions). You can, similarly, tweak black skins to look like various Indian groups.

     

    Honestly I think this comes more down to facial structure, especially the instant you have anybody with even slightly mixed heritage. and especially asian folks I'm pretty sure if I were to crop some "white" skin and asian skin to remive identifying features, no one would be able to tell which was which.

    I mean when it comes down to it its all just melanin. and "race" is a completely made up concept

  • Oso3DOso3D Posts: 15,098
    Yes, but melanin doesn't distribute exactly the same. Some black people, particularly with more direct African lineage, have cooler tones. Others have strong red tones. The distribution of palm vs top of limbs, melanin in wrinkles and folds, varies. Mind you, features count for a lot. When people go out of their way to 'yellow up' Asian skin it's almost always a mistake; I find most Asian skin tones are pretty similar to, say, the variation around the Mediterranean and Europe.
  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    timmins.william said:
    Yes, but melanin doesn't distribute exactly the same. Some black people, particularly with more direct African lineage, have cooler tones. Others have strong red tones. The distribution of palm vs top of limbs, melanin in wrinkles and folds, varies. Mind you, features count for a lot. When people go out of their way to 'yellow up' Asian skin it's almost always a mistake; I find most Asian skin tones are pretty similar to, say, the variation around the Mediterranean and Europe.

    And a lot of people don't realise that Darker skinned people, even those of pure African lineage, actually get paler if they stay in a cooler country for any length of time,  and can then actually get suntanned in good weather, with interesting results. (Tan Lines)

  • IceDragonArtIceDragonArt Posts: 12,966

    You can check out the Skin builider as well.  You can make your skin any color you want

  • nemesis10nemesis10 Posts: 3,905

    Hopefully Skin Builder deals with the palm, lip and bottom of feet issue (there are some parts of the body which are pretty much the same color no matter what race you are).  Nothing ruins a texture like dark palms.

  • icprncssicprncss Posts: 3,694

    HinkyPunk has some excellent darker MR's over at RMP.

  • IceDragonArtIceDragonArt Posts: 12,966
    nemesis10 said:

    Hopefully Skin Builder deals with the palm, lip and bottom of feet issue (there are some parts of the body which are pretty much the same color no matter what race you are).  Nothing ruins a texture like dark palms.

    I will check for you when I get a chance.

  • Oso3DOso3D Posts: 15,098

    I'm pretty sure skin builder does. It uses four different base skin maps to cover different tones, and then mixes them (among other things).

     

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