by tlaero » Mon, 12Jan09 02:10
I don't know what to think of this. It looks to me like they took one skinny model and photoshopped the heads of other models onto her body. This part rings untrue to my ears:
"It is regrettable if we have led anyone to believe that the virtual mannequins should be real bodies. This is incorrect and has never been our intention. We will continue to discuss internally how we can be clearer about this in the information towards our customers."
If they actually want to be clear that they're using mannequins, why don't they ... use mannequins? Department store mannequins have perfect figures too but no one ever mistakes them for real people.
Greebo, I like your suggestion. Daz4 has a technology to autofit clothes to the Genesis body regardless of how you morph the body. You can dress a child type in armor, morph it into a gorilla, and have the armor follow the morphs. Imagine if the site let you enter your dimensions and the models all switched to look like you. Then you'd have some idea how the clothes would look on you, rather than the model with the body of a 12 year old girl they used.
I wonder if that would cause them to sell more or less clothing.
Tlaero