Suggestions for cartoon figures needed
Ikyoto
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I use DAZ Studio for LOTS of stuff.. I am currantly in need of as close as posible proportion for the Dwarves from Snow White. (The big D version) so I can trace them from multipleangles onto the faces ofwood blocksand carve figurines forfriends. I've got g3m and g8m,... and the morph/size packs.
Got contact sheets for characters. Just would like better suggestions than background picing and wireframe tweeking.
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Some combo of Morpheus heads and separate Dwarf-y Body Morphs (like Lyoness Fantasy Races or Dariofish)?
The best product for the dwarves from Snow White is called Hein by Nursoda. You can find it over at Rendo, it's a stand alone product with a lot of third party support. It works fine in DAZ, it loads from the Poser Libraries. It's pretty much the closest thing you can get to the D version of the dwarves and is not terribly expensive
The porportions of the Big D 7 Dwarves is really close to chibi territory. You might want to do a bit of checking on the methods used there. I've not dealt with chibis myself but my impression is that quite often the heads are added on separately, after making the original head invisible, and one is just careful with angles so the join isn't noticed.
The real issue would probably be getting the heads close to properly shaped and then scaling up (or scaling the bodies you intend to use down). Since those dwarves don't go about in skimpwear, you can probably keep the neck and hide the join area with the collar.
I'd be inclined to use Genesis (of whatever iteration) since it's a bit more morph-friendly to the end user than pre-Genesis figures were. Or at least in the absence of being able to dump them into an actual modeling program and bring them back out and import whatever morph you built there.
I'd be really hesitant to use a standalone figure from pretty much any source, since those are generally NOT morph-frindly. Nursoda's figures are great, but they generally only come with expression morphs (although Eepo has a male morph as well as the female base), and there is no 3rd-party morphing system that's available to modify them.
That said, if a 3rd party standalone actually looks like what you are aiming for, that's something else. But most standalones are take 'em or leave 'em.
Morpheus for G3M (not to be confused with the M4 morph pack of the same name by Capces) has some nose and face shaping options that might be helpful. The overall figure proportions won't do anything for you.
I love this one
https://www.daz3d.com/dwarf-creator-for-genesis-2-male-s
Biala recently released some Dwarf morphs for Genesis 8 and Genesis 3 over at Rendo. Biala's library is currently on sale too (until the 19th).
Looking over the products, there are a LOT of morph options. They might also be Halfling friendly as well as Dwarf friendly.
As for 'cartooning' them, I guess the question would be how well the morphs might 'play' with say some 3D Universe characters, well that'd come down to how comfortable you are with working with a wide cross section of morph sets.
3D Universe makes some really nice 'toon-ey' characters, so the 3DU library is definitely worth a look.
Anyways, lots of other good suggestions already in this thread, so it appears that you have a number of options.
There is a dwarf morph creation system for Gensis 2 male.
https://www.daz3d.com/dwarf-creator-for-genesis-2-male-s
It would be so cool if Smay updated this for Genesis 8. It's still my favorite too.