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animagic
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animagic
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Deborah Hearne (8/16/2022)
animagic (8/12/2022)
Filmmaking is important endeavor, although you may not think so...:doze:I think you misunderstood what I was saying. I was referring to a comment from @SeanPollmann. Sorry for the misunderstanding. :)
He seemed to dismiss filmmaking as important as opposed to using characters in games. For filmmaking a Standard license is sufficient, including for commercial work.
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Deborah Hearne
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Deborah Hearne
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animagic (8/12/2022)
Filmmaking is important endeavor, although you may not think so...:doze:I think you misunderstood what I was saying.
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Deborah Hearne
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Deborah Hearne
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SeanPollman (8/11/2022)
Deborah Hearne (8/1/2022)
I agree. You can't use the Sims 4 for commercial work. If you just want to play around with distinctive character looks and have fun, The Sims 4 is an excellent choice when it actually works. ha, you cant use Character Creator for most commercial work either. making "videos" rendering them for still images or one off characters for video games is about all you can really do do, everything else is locked down under their ridiculously consumer unfriendly TOS. Please tell me more about this.
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animagic
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animagic
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Filmmaking is important endeavor, although you may not think so...:doze:
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Deborah Hearne (8/1/2022)
I agree. You can't use the Sims 4 for commercial work. If you just want to play around with distinctive character looks and have fun, The Sims 4 is an excellent choice when it actually works. ha, you cant use Character Creator for most commercial work either. making "videos" rendering them for still images or one off characters for video games is about all you can really do do, everything else is locked down under their ridiculously consumer unfriendly TOS.
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Deborah Hearne
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Deborah Hearne
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mark (8/1/2022)
Deborah Hearne (8/1/2022)
mark (7/30/2022)
Yep, you should go with the Sims for sure!
It is good for creating characters and playing around with different looks. For commercial work, it is not a viable solution. So why were you even considering it....if you are doing "commercial-work"? Playing around and creating new characters is fun.
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AutoDidact (8/1/2022)
It is cheaper to commission someone to create something custom for you than to pay Reallusion's prices.
Clearly you have NEVER Commissioned a bespoke model from a skilled content creator:rolleyes: 
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It is cheaper to commission someone to create something custom for you than to pay Reallusion's prices.
Clearly you have NEVER Commissioned a bespoke model from a skilled content creator:rolleyes:
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mark
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Deborah Hearne (8/1/2022)
mark (7/30/2022)
Yep, you should go with the Sims for sure!
It is good for creating characters and playing around with different looks. For commercial work, it is not a viable solution. So why were you even considering it....if you are doing "commercial-work"?
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Deborah Hearne
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Deborah Hearne
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AutoDidact (7/30/2022)
Deborah Hearne (7/29/2022)
Character Creator- More options to customize characters in multiple design styles
- Easy to import and export characters using a variety of applications with good licensing
- You can buy more sliders and character body shapes but that is expensive
- Assets are expensive. A pack of decent clothing is $99+.
- You can easily change colors and textures of clothing
- There isn't a good variety of free clothing. To get a good library of clothing, it cost hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Also, there isn't a good variety of clothing for various age groups.
- The Smart hair builder system is cool but there aren't enough hairstyles for ethic hair.
- Hair is expensive. It costs $110 for a pack of 5 hairstyles.
- Prices for assets are always increasing even if they are years old.
- Exceedingly difficult to use and has a large learning curve
The Sims 4- It is difficult to import and export characters using different applications and the licensing restricts the usage of the characters
- Changing the clothing and textures of clothing is difficult
- Assets are cheap. The game comes with plenty of free clothing and hair. Also, you can buy additional asset packs for between $4.99 and $39.99 a pack.
- The assets are tied to the game.
- Prices for assets remain steady.
- The stylized hair is better than anything you will find on the Reallusion website.\
- Easy to use for a beginner
If the cost of CC4& RL content is prohibitive for you there is also Daz studio its content is generally alot cheaper than than Reallusion. The Daz Genesis figures generally look better than the CC4 natives in the joints. and its integration into Blender for animation retargeting and rendering is equal to Blender pipeline tool for iclone, Better in some aspects. Thanks for the advice. I already have CC4 and the price of the content is not an issue for me. It is whether I want to pay the price. Even with the Elite Membership, it seems as though I am not getting as good of a discount as I was a year ago. A year ago, I only bought for CTA 4 but the discounts were better. Also, with the new license, the costs of digital assets are crazy. It is cheaper to commission someone to create something custom for you than to pay Reallusion's prices. For example, this single hair is $22.  If you want the extended license, it will cost $66. 
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