We really wanted to portray a wheelchair user having a fun, amazing day, whether it is hanging out with friends or having a bright future as a wheelchair basketball player. What was your approach to creating assets for this project, and did you find part of the process challenging?Īva: When creating both wheelchairs, we wanted to convey a feeling of happiness, joy, and spirit. We (virtually) sat down with Ava, Stephanie, and Corinne to hear their different perspectives in undertaking this great task to include different abilities in the Daz 3D Store.
We’re also grateful to Corinne, another one of our promo artists, for her feedback and thoughts. We are grateful to Ava (also known as Zeddicuss), Stephanie (SBibb), and all the others involved for their hard work in making this project not only possible but better than we could have imagined. We started with Kirsten and local advocacy groups, and then we turned to our promo artist community. She says, “People with disabilities are the largest minority group there is, yet they are also one of the most underrepresented.” She’s thrilled to work for a company that not only recognizes this but makes an effort to do something about it! We want to ensure that with any character release of any group, we gather as much information as we can to accurately depict them.
Kirsten Sharp, Head of Content Production, has been a wheelchair user for 30 years and competes on the International circuit for Wheelchair Tennis. Who were these characters besides being people with disabilities? And what did that mean? But that was just the tip of the iceberg. When we released our first two Genesis 8.1 characters, Victoria and Michael, their detailed character backgrounds featured new aspects: Victoria is deaf and uses hearing aids, and Michael uses a wheelchair. Inclusion is important to us at Daz, but even more important is getting it right. In doing this, it’s important to create characters, props, poses, and more that normalize every part of life, including the difference in abilities from person to person.
Here at Daz, we offer realistic assets to artists that mimic real life and blur the line between fiction and reality.
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