Even everything looks great but Liberty's breasts taking away all the magic of the picture in my opinion. Yeah big breasts are good and all but they are huge and reminds me a milk cow in super hero cossie. 
It is my idea tho', looks like character owner enjoying this.
As i said pose, lights and rendering looks amazing. Nice work again. 
You mean the Most Common Superpower is actually a weakness in this case? I'm liking the lighting, also.
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I think she looks great. And I'm also glad that my constant use of TVTropes in links has caught on.
Chairman of the Charity of Pain; accepting donations of blood and guts.
Prophet of the Creamy Truth; "If it's empty, fill it with cream."
TV Tropes is even more of a time-sink for me than CoX. It's a useful resource, too, for applying, averting and subverting the various tropes that we've all seen a million times but never quite catch on to.
Anyway, less hijackin', more DAZin'
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Something with that pose, i guess the fact she leans forward and taken at that angle makes her torso look short and stocky.
She's actually fairly short, for a CoH character. I think I made her 5'7" (ish). I had to check up with Dan about her height. She comes in a little shorter than Ni.
And she has enormous boobs! Do you people play the same game as me?! You can't build a CoH female without at least B-cups!
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Are B-cups enourmous? o.o
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True, even having the chest slider as far over to the left as it will go still doesn't produce particularly small boobs. That's still no real excuse (i.e. one that anyone else will believe) to turn the Chest slider all the way up to eleven, though.
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Plant-based symbiont converting the mammaries to nutrient storage organs,and an under-skin underwire of adjustable vines going round to the spine to provide support.
That's my story for Alraune, and I'm sticking to it.
My personal theory is most players of this game don't realise the chest-slider goes left at all. More than a handful is a waste, and gives a woman backache (I know, because I have a friend with a large chest and she's always mentioning her backpain).
I think the posing is good, and the shadow on the backdrop makes it look like she's at a photographic studio. Looks like your typical hero photo-shoot. One thumb-up.
My personal theory is that it's hilarious listening to people moan about the female toons having massive boobs. It's as equally ridiculous that the men are entirely incapable of having a normal physique even with the slider all the way to the left and have no concept of body hair, but no, we have to only pay attention to the unrealistic nature of the boobs. And niether will we in any way notice that the only way to get them looking even slightly like boobs, and in any way able to compliment the awesomely curvaceous, delightful, child bearing hips every single CoX female toon is blessed with, is to make them huge so the curves all look right.
I find the complainers far, far more childish usually, since all they ever manage to see is the boobs and absolutely none of the wrongness inherent in the CoX female character sliders that makes it almost compulsory to have the chest slider at least three quarters to the right. It's like free brownie points. The boobs are all huge, which is sexist, impractical, and objectifies women! I'M A DESIRABLE MODERN MAN!
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Prophet of the Creamy Truth; "If it's empty, fill it with cream."
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...The boobs are all huge, which is sexist, impractical, and objectifies women! I'M A DESIRABLE MODERN MAN!
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I'm a man, modern and desirable being more subjective arguments, and by general definition like boobs. I just don't like to see all female toons with huge boobs, particularly in the form of spandex-clad superheroines with breasts the size of a city block where the trope has become a cliché. There's a place for them in civilised society (and CoX too), but not absolutely everywhere on everything lacking a Y chromosome.
Superhero men, of course, all look like that, in that they're either enormous Mr Universe a-likes and super muscular, or lean and super-muscular. It's an obvious reflection of real life.
*looks in mirror*
Aww [censored]. Real life = fail.
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Yea that, or I'm genuinly not a fan of big boobs. You did have a good point with the rest of your rant though 
Anyway, I'm not really that fond of this sort of 3D art, but I can see the progress made with your most recent postings. Imo they look a lot more lifelike than earlier examples.
@True Metal
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No, B-cups are not huge, but they are the minimum you can get (at 'best') and real women have smaller chests.
Yes, with the general physique of CoH women, larger breasts look 'natural.'
These models aren't in CoH, so I could have given Libby a flat chest, but Dan didn't, so that wouldn't really be right. I might have overdone it a bit, it's posible.
As a man (and a skinny one) I somehow find it 'worse' that I can't create a really skinny male figure, but that's probably just me.
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This has put me in mind of this Adam Hughes sketch of Power Girl - as it usually does.
Back On Topic, I think she really does look like she's about to smack bad guys. Thanks Birdy!
Mmmmm Power Girl *drool*
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i get around this issue by making the character as skinny as possible and giving them rather bulky armoured costumes, to make them seem more frail underneath than they are on the surface
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Only from some angles - the way the slider calculates the expansion is totally un-natural - it not only adds equal width on the outside in unison with distance from the chest, it also has minimal expansion on the inside, when in reality, having minimal separation between large breasts is way more comfortable and practical.
And no only is the separation totally unrelaistic, it also means that any close fitting costume parts dip in the middle to follow it, when it should really stretch across.
@Golden Girl
City of Heroes comics and artwork
I think weird side of the picture comes from the program itself. I guess thit is what GG tried to explain or very similiar. When a lady wear anything tight (like super hero cossies) their breasts press into their body, not swing in front of them like two huge water baloons.
Don't get me wrong, my young teen years passed with collecting Samantha Fox photos and she was looking quite good in swimsuits.
From a 3D art perspective, the difference between Nitoichi and Liberty Girl is that Ni's chest expansion is achieved primarily through a set of morphs known as NGM (Natural Gravity Morphs), while Libby (being more of a comic book hero than Ni) gets hers through the standard 'Breast Size', 'Breast Implant', etc sliders. Ni's chest probably has about the same overall volume as Libby's in these models, but Ni's chest doesn't look as large in most of these shots because of the way they, um, hang.
I actually used the different mechanisms in the different models precisely because I wanted to portray Ni as this normal girl who fights crime and Libby as a superhero. (It is kind of undermined by Ni's outrageous muscle structure, but you can't win 'em all, an you?)
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I think weird side of the picture comes from the program itself. I guess thit is what GG tried to explain or very similiar. When a lady wear anything tight (like super hero cossies) their breasts press into their body, not swing in front of them like two huge water baloons.
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It can depend on what sort of support you're using - if it's a normal bra, or a sportsbra, then they do get flattened in tighter clothing, especially if it's a sportsbra, as they're designed to keep them flatter to avoid movement - but if you're wearing a push-up bra, then there's very little flattening, no matter what type of clothing you have over it.
@Golden Girl
City of Heroes comics and artwork
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I think weird side of the picture comes from the program itself. I guess thit is what GG tried to explain or very similiar. When a lady wear anything tight (like super hero cossies) their breasts press into their body, not swing in front of them like two huge water baloons.
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It can depend on what sort of support you're using - if it's a normal bra, or a sportsbra, then they do get flattened in tighter clothing, especially if it's a sportsbra, as they're designed to keep them flatter to avoid movement - but if you're wearing a push-up bra, then there's very little flattening, no matter what type of clothing you have over it.
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Meek being a woman is a very hard thing. No wonder women spend so much time on shopping, only choosing a bra is confusing already...
Since Dan asked so nicely (my ears are still ringing)...
Liberty Girl
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