Bluejaunte's Amala
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I have long admired Bluejaunte's work and own several of their figures, but the Amala alien is really the embodiment of ethereal beauty. Great work, and that kind of experimention I hope gets rewarded.
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I agree :)
Laurie
Yes, she is quite interesting and unique. Its nice to see bj experiment a bit.
Though I really wish bluejaunte would experiment with a man someday. I'd love to see his take on a male texture set.
**Not that kind of experiment you pervs!!!
Hey thanks guys. Happy some people found her intriguing
Sadly she is tanking hard though so the experiment hasn't payed off. I guess aliens are just too niche to begin with. You know, like men? Just saying, I need to go where the money is. People vote with their wallets.
At least I had some fun. And she got a Takulami treatment. Always great to see.
She's in my wishlist, so you can consider that a delayed vote.
She's very lovely and intriging, her lack of sales may be the timeing, a lot of peoples wallets are suffering from the sales. Hopefully she will do well in the future.
it's my understanding that the success of an addon is measured in the initial sales once released, which makes me think that wishlisting an item doesn't really count towards it's success. Makes me wonder if there is an average amount of time an item sits in a users wishlist before getting purchased, if at all. I know I have things in mine that have been in there years.
Sorry to hear she's not doing well. i am sure the quality is there knowing your other addons, but personally I cant find a use for her.
Almost all sales are made in the first few days.
Telling a PA that you've put an item on your wishlist is, honestly, not very encouraging; you're better off just ambiguously saying how cool the item is.
Not that there's anything wrong with wishlists, I put stuff on wishlist all the time. But I feel it's generally best not to mention that to a creator.
Wishlist just means interested but not yet or not at full price. It's the next best thing after insta-buy so I will gladly take that :)
It's true sometimes that initial sales aren't great but the item still catches up a bit in the long run. But yeah in general the initial sales are usually the do or die period.
Not sure if it helps, but here's why I didn't buy Amala and also not really intend to do so in the future:
Good to hear You had fun sculpting her, though, and I hope that she will sell well over time :)
Thanks maikdecker. Yeah it is one theory, not alien enough, not human enough. Although I like me some cute looking alien girls. Too alien/monstery I probably wouldn't be interested.
Also, very understandable that you can't make a Male character if they don't sell well. Also, you have to create what you like and what you enjoy. Meanwhile I created my own male character out of one of your characters (the UV switcher allows for those shenanigans) and I like the result so much! None of it would be possible without your creations, so - thank you, bluejaunte!
I don't wishlist to be doing anything but to have a reminder there is a product I like & want but am too poor to afford. And that's gotten eventually about 50% of the items I've had wishlisted bought (and i've wishlisted a lot).
I'm not into sci-fi no matter the presentation and when I saw her and the impression she gave me was that she was simply incomplete and kind of yucky (by that I'm not referring to her appearance in my eyes to Chelsea Clinton). Why yucky? The grey makes it look like she is filtering crude things out of the environments she has been present in. She looks shiny and slimy which even makes some people cringe and go yuck when they see something as harmless as a banana slug. So she has a plausible alien sci-fi look I guess.
She actually reminds me of a tall lithe Chelsea Clinton when she was a teenager. The body has the refinement of a professional dancer. Maybe that's what she makes her living as in her alien world and that guy with the gun was not impressed with her dancing performance.
My take is she'd be a good character for a more "serious" type of sci-fi renders, but she's neither sexy enough nor horrific enough for other types of sci-fi (that's what sells a lot right?). Since I already have like 100 female characters including Zelara 8 and a bunch of her add-on characters, I had to pass at least for now.
Her head shape does sort of remind me of stuff like "Alien Nation" and "Babylon 5."
Well, I did buy her, though I haven't tried her yet.
If anything held her back sales wise, my bet would be her eyes. I think if she had some more human eyes in the main promo she might have sold better. I know that probably sounds odd since she is alien, but I just think people still prefer more human like eyes even when they are aliens, like the Mass Effect Asari, or most aliens from Star Trek. At least more human like, they can still be uniquely colored or have a slit iris like a cat. I really think that is what hurt her, and she lacks different eye options. Though I bought her, I kept going back and forth on whether I should, and that was because of her eyes.
Also, maybe the timing was not the best. A day with stuff dedicated to scifi might have helped, and more so if Amala was involved with a deal that tied them all together. Like if they had placed a bunch of PC+ scifi items in there and buying Amala gave another 10% discount.
I think she's beautiful! I can't wait to add her to my collection of unusual women. Unfortunately, it can't be now. The joys of being broke.
It's a shame sales from the first two weeks are counted as more important. I do digital sales and I'm always looking at the long game. Different niche completely, I know that since I'm not doing 3d digital stuff, but doesn't the product's lifetime earnings have any weight with 3d digital stuff? It seems a shame to base a product more on how it did the first weeks of sales rather than lifetime earnings. There are so many factors that could affect a product not doing well the week it comes out. I know coming out during one of the biggest sales of the year might be an advantage, but there are still a lot of people who won't buy during the sale, who put things on the wishlist, and buy later when they have funds.
At any rate, @bluejaunte, I kind of hope there's a male to go along with Amala at some point. That would make me very happy. :)
Well I put my money where my mouth was and purchased her. It's my goal now to find interesting scenarios to put her into.
My initial reaction was looking at her skin and thinking...UGH!!!, and went on surfing. You see, that's BJ's fault
for producing such wonderful skin shaders on past characters. I didn't see the the same "reality", and my 1st impressions were UGH. Her skin looks like kind of like "mud". I was looking for past BJ realism, maybe too much?
My second impression was that the poses simply don't reflect 'reality'. No human could pose like that! After reflecting for a while, her physique and looks perfectly match the poses shown. The long lithe body shape is perfect for them!
I purchased Amala today. I might try some different skin shaders, but after looking at her for a while, she's a keeper.
Great product! Thanks for the effort!
So I did some experimenting with Amala's eyes. It was a bit more than just swapping textures. Her eye has a funny shape, so I reset her eye shape and went to Hexagon for some tweaking. Aside from her eyes, she is "out of the box".
I wanted to go even more human, so I used Hexagon to shape her skull. I gave her Rose Hair, BJ Sina skin, eyelashes and brows.
Looking good :)
Yeah the eye shape is weird on purpose. I felt it added to the alien look. I actually had to box that through QA.
When I first saw her, I thought she was an albino character until I took a closer look. Alien works good too. With some other morphs, she could be made to look more alien if need be.
And their taste in classic sci-fi.
What? Alien?
Alien!
I thought she was just your average living clay person, or one of those shop mannequins with the permanent molded hair.
Dang sneaky aliens are everywhere! I want my money back!
Indeed.
I have to wait for a bit to get her, but she's on the list ;). To be honest, at first glance I thought she looked ghostly...which would have been fine too and I'd still buy her. But I've had a house guest for a couple weeks, other things to buy and it just landed at a rotten time. But I get most of the stuff I've put in my wish list. And I'm especially fond of scifi.
Laurie
Awsome!
So I was pretty discouraged after seeing Takulami's amazing image, but thought I'd give it a shot anyway and give dragon wrangling a try at the same time. She's definitely not like other girls.
Hello
Here is my current WIP. Amala is so beautiful I put nine of her in the same picture :-) !
Too bad the economic side win again but thanks Bluejaunt for this wonberful character
William you hit the nail on the head there !
just had another look at her after reading this thread wish I had more money like I use to earn now cause now I relise how perfect she is for something but I've posted in another thread about might get interest in her with the Doctor Who fans as she is perfect to use as a weeping angel, and even her hair is sculpted as part of her head, sure you can use a clay/stone shader on another female figure and her hair but wouldn't look as good right as Amala.
She's in my wishlist, so you can consider that a delayed vote.
I realize that saying "Oh, I didn't buy that, but I wishlisted it" could be almost insulting to a creator. And wishlistings certainly don't count as much as an actual purchase does when it comes to the most important metric of all: putting cold hard cash in the creator's pocket. Thank you, @BlueJaunte for taking it in the best possible way (and if it's any consolation, I've bought more than a few of your excellent works in the past).
Realistically, though, we can't afford to buy everything, and there's always the product that doesn't quite make the cut -- this time around -- whether because it's edged out by something we want more or because we simply ran out of money. Depending on how much money I have left, there's a good chance that Amala will graduate from wishlist to shopping cart during the inevitable final catch-up sale.
A dancing concrete angel is pretty neat & she is perfect for that.