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It really varies. Some people simply do look naturally younger, and it's not just due to their facial characteristics, but also (to a huge degree) because of their clothing and posure. I've seen people around my own age (mid-forties) who looked older than my mother (who's in her early eighties, but regularly mistaken for early-sixties). Knowing them from when they were younger, I guess it makes a huge difference how much time you waste purposely getting a tan combined with the opposite, wearing thick layers of make-up during the months your skin already lacks normal sun exposure the most.
I've also had 23 year old brats assume I was younger than they were when I was 35 (which was a frustrating enough situation that I started to maintain my beard at a stubble from that point instead of shaving clean like I did before).
Sure, some of all that may be genetic, but I do believe a big part is also due to skin mistreatment, the way you dress and how you behave.
I like Benita from Saiyaness, as a figure that is obviously mature out of the box.
https://www.daz3d.com/benita-for-victoria-8
In my renders she looked older than in the promos, but you can easily make her 10 years younger too. In my experience that works better than making a 20yo look 30.
And I'm currently looking at 'Sunshine'.
https://www.daz3d.com/sunshine-hd-for-genesis-8-female
I like Colm Jackson's stuff (except that the skins are a bit chalky next to the usual figures).
Dialing in 20%-30% of real old characters like Mabel seems to deliver good result.
Thanks for that advice.
I have the aging morphs for genesis 3 but I am not completely satisfied with the results. It is really good for making characters look really old but the middle age look doesn't satisfy my needs. It also ages all the characters in the same manner (like another member mentioned). Also the middle aged looks I can produce with it are inferior to carefully sculptured characters in my opinion.
People don't really pay a lot of attention as it's rude to stare.
Put white hair or greying hair on someone and instantly they assume the character is old. Don't believe me? Look at any cartoon with an old person or show with old person (eg Carol Burnett Show's Vicki Lawrence as Mama in Mama's Family) and it's almost 100% done with a white wig. I knew a lady that worked on oil rigs in the gulf her whole life and helped on the farm as a girl and by her early 40s she was way more wrinkled than most people in their 80s. Of course there are other tell-tale signs that combined add up but the big thing that gets the impression 90% there is hair color.
There are heaps, get the old age morpher with the body shaper and the face morphs for the generation female you want to sculpt and create an older lady or you could buy one of many ladies in the store, quite a few famous older ladies if you look around.
The nice thing with Mabel and Edie is that they both include the HD add-on without requiring a separate purchase. Even for other base characters like Vicky, just dialing in the HD Add-on adds a few years.
As for the Aging Face Morphs, I find they'd be okay for a background character, but unsuitable for most portraits. Aging Face Details are a bit more subtle, but not by much. You also can't just age any character well. Try it with Josie to see what I mean.
Perceptions of age also depend on your own age and state of mind. We were in the liquor store with my mother ther other day. She's 82 and I am 60. The young man at one till looked very young. He had to be at least 19 to work there and yet I swore he didn't look any older than 12....lol. I am also amazed to see the students at the local University. To me they look like they should be in middle school. Yet, I see people who are barely 10 years older than me and I think they are old.
Where I work there were a whole bunch of people it what I would call the '60's club. We were all born in 1960. My birthday is in January so I was the second oldest among the group. One person was 9 days older than me. The rest of them fell throughout the year. And yet there were some I thought that were older than me because they were my superiors (as far as jobs go). So there are a lot of factors that go into someone's perception of age
And yes genetics and liffestyle factor in there too
I can remember being 5 & thinking my best friend's sister was grownup because she was 10. She certainly looked grown up to me but of course should I see a picture of her as a 10 year old now she wouldn't seem like an adult.
I remember those days too, playing with the "big girls"...
Do also remember at around 15-18, how the 30year olds looked old and mature and acted so adult-like... The 30year olds of today look so young and if their looks don't tell their age, the way they try to act adult-like, reveals their true age.
No offence youngsters, in a few decades you get to say the same
In the early '70s, I looked at some old photos of male college students (school of Engineering) from the 1940s. They looked _so_ much older than the students in the '70s, partly because of their stony expressions and uniformly short slicked haircuts. I wonder if people are 'dressing younger' and styling younger recently?
It couldn't have helped that students in the 40s would have grown up during the Great Depression.
Lots of students in the 40s had just returned from the war, which provided an involuntary "gap year or two". Many were older and some Americans who wouldn't have normally attended university due to age or means enrolled due to favourable terms provided by the G.I.Bill.
I find the 70's photos of young adults look terribly hairy
Bwahahahaha! She's in her late 50's at least. Take it from a woman in her mid thirties.
Heck, I'd put her in her late 60's, going by her face. She's lived a life in the sun, that one. I bought her for the tattoos, which I've blended into other skins. I couldn't get over her awful breasts to actual use her as a character.
Well, Sydney is the prerequisite for Mousso's amazing Alabama: https://www.daz3d.com/alabama-hd-for-sydney-8
Penny 8 is more mature, and you could dial in either an aging morph or an older character if you want to age her a little more.
Aubrey 8 is a great 30s character.
Frida is a little older, in her 50s maybe.
Aubrey:
Well, many thanks for the different character recommendations and advice until now.
I also learned that most women in their 30's and 40's still think that they look like in their 20's. That also coincides with my personal experience.
My real life female aquaintances in that age range also think the same. Until now I haven't had the heart (or guts?) to tell them that that's not true.
sorry, double post.
Dude no one is saying that. We're just saying there isn't a magical wrinkle fairy that apears on every woman's thirtieth birthday to give her brow wrinkles. And a 30 year old looks as close to someone whos 20 as they do to someone 40 because that is in fact the same distance of time. Math is fun.
But I'm sure you obviously know better
Not sure if you are willing to take a look at G3 Characters, but Satine has always been a fave for "older" style.
https://www.daz3d.com/satine-hd-for-genesis-3-female
Already been mentioned. And she does look to be in her late 40s/early 50s