AutoDidact (2/4/2022)
The default CC3 girl in the middle with the basic
preveiw render engine in CC3 .
Identical twins/triplets?...absolutely not!!
However Clearly from the same northern European gene pool
could pass for sisters or first cousins...? yes that is my subjective opinion.
Nothing wrong with having a preference( I certainly Do).
But of the DAZ women I posted, the two brunettes could be anything from Armenian to Italian to latina or Arab,
and the redhead could easily be an Irish,scottish or Welsh Character
I am not seeing this type of Diversity from people without using the headshot plugin to its full potential.
I have read that the CC4 Avatars have more diversity built
in,for those who are upgrading.
Seriously? I mean seriously? Do you think that people on a CC forum don't know what the base avatars look like? I appriciate that you took some time in CC to try to make a base avatar look a little like one of mine, but the whole point of the OP was to make characters who look radically different from the base using CC! To produce the image you presented that quickly, you probably used head shot
on my image - which ironically, by cheating like that, only proves my point.
As to gene pools and diversity, it's interesting that you fail to mention that the first character is clearly mostly of Latin heratige with a few Aisian features - as she is described in my book.
Further, you are correct that the blonde looks Northern European. I was inspired by a woman I know whose ancestors came from Northern France. Getting her grey eyes right took some time. The redhead does not look Scottish or Welsh at all, though I do not understand why people descended from Western Celts or Normans wouldn't count as their own ethnic groups in anycase. She was originally inspired by someone I know who is of Russian Jewish descent. Look at their cheek bones, brows, eyes and noses.
Do you have some bias against white people? Is it possible you think they look the same? From some of your ascerbic comments on this and other threads, it begins to appear that way and it is tiresome.
As to making diverse characters using CC, I will remind you of some other images I posted. These were also made entirely in CC using skin gen and a little GIMP to tweak the textures. So no, if you actually take the time to get good at using CC, you can make anyone. I suggest you stop using headshop as a crutch and learn to make characters from scratch using the tool.
This lady is also inspired by someone I know. She's a very brilliant mathematician.
93% of original size (was 540x16) - Click to enlarge
If you look at the two Asian women below, it is clear that one is striaght up Han Chinese and the other isn't. And yes, I used the first one as the basis to make the second. I was particularly interested in exploring the different ethnic features in the eyes and foreheads and cheeks and jawline. Their noses are essentially the same.
93% of original size (was 540x16) - Click to enlarge
93% of original size (was 540x16) - Click to enlarge
Feel free to post whatever else you want but I really am tired of this.