A good source of pre-made or generated character bodies/clothes?

Bumper

Hey all - I'm doing some freelance AD work for a VR project, and I need a variety of bad buy models. The client doesn't have the funds to shell out for custom characters, so we've decided to buy a few base meshes of differing build, clothes to mix and match, and perhaps hair to mix and match as well. I will be building a series of custom heads that will get thrown in the mixes.

I've looked at a few options. I played with Autodesk's Character Generator, as I like the idea building multiple characters via sliders and a menu system (quick and cheap). Unfortunately it was awful.  So unless I find a better generator,  I'm thinking the Unity Store may be a possibility.  I'm also looking at Daz Studio now. It's uh.. interesting...

Any suggestions/ideas would be appreciated.

danr

Mixamo and their Fuse generator would be a good option - I've used it in the past to crank out whole crowds of nobodies. Not entirely sure of the current status though, they've had a bit of an overhaul very recently.

mixamo also have a bunch of pre-made chars and anims you can use as a jumping off point 

Brian "Panda" Choi

yeah we're using Mixamo too to pump out quick rigs.

Bumper

I've heard about Mixamo, but thought Adobe has making changes/nixing it. That said, I appreciate the endorsements and will check it out!

thomasp

these DAZ characters, are they any good at all for VR though? never seen one up close but from what pops up on artstation they look really high res.

Bumper

thomasp said:

these DAZ characters, are they any good at all for VR though? never seen one up close but from what pops up on artstation they look really high res.

I'm not really digging Daz and it's assets really.   That said, they export at a serviceable resolution. This guy (granted only wearing pants) in 15880 tris.

That said, the content isn't terribly appealing. I feel like I need a shower everytime I look at their catalog. It seems like a lot of their assets are geared towards real-time porn. Maybe not, but porn-ish nonetheless.

Bumper

Fuse is looking promising.

Thanks all!

Unknown_Target

There's also Makehuman.