Jazz 8.1 discussion
The Blurst of Times
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Well... at risk of duplication (and therefore, combination or deletion), here's another Jazz 8.1 thread as separate from the Seasonpass thread.
I posted this to the Seasonpass category in the gallery, just a quick/simple render.
I'm not a fan of the eyebrows, but the materials come with a no-eyebrow version.
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I see that someone is practicing their 3 point lighting setups
Thank you @The Blurst of Times for the new thread! I like your render and agree about the eyebrows. Why couldn't he have his own fibermesh brows?
Even partially sighted today, I tried to render still. It is a bit of a challenge. I was watching the news and a segment on Covid and India was on when he appeared, so my choices were influenced by what is going on now. I found his expressions easy to move, and had to back off a bit. I was wanting to show tiredness and sorrow.
I'll try to do one with fibermesh eyebrows instead.
I wish Jazz came with his own, but I know I have a few different eyebrow options as it is.
LOL, yes, just doing the same thing for lack of better ideas to frame the figure at the moment.
Might as well practice the techniques from the webinar.
Well before tomorrow, when the horrible price, deals and other hit/miss of the bundles takes most of the spotlight, i will say i think the shape is another hit. Good to see another regular body. This will certainly go to my whislist for when a good deal is available.
The skin even in your simple render looks better than the promo one that looks toon/waxed.
Not a fan of that body hair in particular. Is it fixed as in with/without or there are more presets/dials?
The HD from the promo image i saw also does not look as interesting.
I just threw a random body hair on... I think that one was from Kjaer?
(EDIT: NOPE... the chest hair was from Folco the Halfling. I'll have to fix that in my gallery page...)
Jazz comes with no fibermesh hair options. He has Eyebrow ON/OFF for the textures, but no Body Hair... no Fibermesh hair.
The HD? I didn't even bother. His torso doesn't have much definition, so the HD is kind of lost there. Maybe the facial HD might be worth it? I just didn't try with that at all.
While I loaded the default shape, I used the sliders to bring in the HD morph in my render, so you can see what it looks like there. The numbers were at 2 and 4 on the sliders. (I have DS down, have to leave now.)
So why did the other thread get closed and redirected and this one didn't, very odd.
His morph does not excite me. Thin shoulders, big head, and grompy cat expression in the hd morph with that squint. A body you might dial with morphs. We'll see what else comes with him.
Yes, when looking at the torso and comparing it with the size of his head, they don't belong to the same person.
Sanjay was much better based on what I've seen so far...
What is it with DO figures and weird trapezoid muscles? Does he spend all day training just his neck?
Though maybe he needs to to help support his massive head.
Because it had no figure to discuss, it was just another announcement that the download wasn't there.
The bod looks like a 10 minute alteration of base male from what I've seen in comparison shots.
More waxy awful PBR skin. With all new figures being G8.1 only and coming only with PBR shaders, I’m getting the same sinking feeling I had when I was a Poser user and everything coming out was Genesis and I took a long vacation from Daz. The feeling that a boyfriend I’ve had for a long time and I are starting to go in different directions.... But I had a long and happy shopping frenzy starting MM 2016 to MM 2021 and I really do need to cut down on spending and it’s time to really start using everything I have!
Yeah. When I saw the promo pic I was like wow, this is promising. And then I installed him and looked and was like oh, I could have probably gotten close to this character with the base male with some minor tweaks and a similar skin. So here's a side by side of the G8.1 base male with Jazz, then base male with Jazz skin in preview mode and in Iray preview mode and you can judge for yourself on that one. I know you mentioned bod, but I immediately noticed a head similarity.
The body.... Is even worse..... Compare those two.
Looks to me like the Daz core figures are going stylized again. No thanks. ;) And thanks...you're keeping my spending WAY down ;).
Laurie
Yeah...
Gallery ain't working for me :-\
One more simple render. Maybe I'll post to gallery later...
Yes, the body is unremarkable and kind of bland that way. He does feel a little like a stylized figure with the head size.
I'm curious to see what the bundle looks like.
That's a nice render. I'm curious about the bundle too. I actually picked up the first one from Jacqueline, which was the first bundle I picked up since probably Tara or Sukai because when they did the flash sale for the items in the five dollar off sections to get them for a couple of bucks, that swayed me even more. So hopefully there'll be some stuff in this bundle that will match the first from Jacqueline to get some more use out of this pass.
That's two characters in a row now with huge heads and really narrow shoulders.
Maybe they're going for a chess pawns?
So there will be 6 more, than a new castle, horse, bishop outfit and a reeeally tall male and female?
Actually he looks like a partner for Cleopatra 8.1.
They already released 2 girls and 1 guy. I expect one more Genesis 8.1 male figure (F___) and a cartoon/stylized one.
I really like Jazz, and don't think he looks stylized except maybe slightly exaggerated proportions (and, as mentioned, his shredded deltoids).
Ha... looks like Justin Trudeau in this render - nice one
Actually for me (!) he looks like something I could come up with by mixing Ollie 8 with a bit of Michael 8 and Sanjay textures or so.. using a bit less nose and hand size... with the addional benefit that Ollie included the HD morphs with no extra cost.
I'm going to venture a wild guess and say that Torment was the last male figure started by the old art direction team. Everything since has just been awful. Even the skins are bad. Sorry to say that, but IMVHO, everything after doesn't even compare. I'm sure a lot of you like the newer stuff, but I'm also sure a lot of you agree that the stuff pre-Torment isn't even in the same league. Sad...very sad.
Laurie
LOL, thanks... I was thinking he did kind of resemble Justin Trudeau, maybe if you tweaked the nose a little more.
(Definitely no political commentary other than the resemblance.)