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        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0022A8"><b><a target="" href="../../corner/index.html"><font size="-1">Thinking 
          Outside the Box</font></a><font size="-1">:</font></b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="+3" color="#0022A8"><br>
          The Good, The Not-So-Bad, and the Really Ugly</font></p>
        <p align="right"><font color="#804000"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">By 
          <a href="mailto:paul@loonygames.com">Maul Steed</a>, Darth Modeler</font></b></font></p>
        <p align="right">&nbsp; </p>
        <p><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">13. Miss Illinois<br>
          </font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Pose: Very Cool<br>
          Proportions: Cool <br>
          Texture Potential: Cool<br>
          Animation Potential: Cool<br>
          Overall Use of Triangles: Cool</font></p>
        <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="aphrodite13.php"><img src="images/thumbs/aphrodite13.jpg" width="125" height="84" border="1"></a></font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><u>Comments</u>: Miss Illinois 
          didn’t make the first cut and then made it after reconsideration. She 
          reminds me of a character out of Heavy Metal with her athletic proportions. 
          The breasts could have been better and her knees a bit lower, but I 
          really dig her back, delts and waist/butt area. Her face is really good 
          but her hair seems a little off. Still…I like her.</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>03. Miss Arizona</b></font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Pose: Okay<br>
          Proportions: Very Cool<br>
          Texture Potential: Cool<br>
          Animation Potential: Cool<br>
          Overall Use of Triangles: Cool</font></p>
        <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="aphrodite03.php"><img src="images/thumbs/aphrodite03.jpg" width="125" height="113" border="1"></a></font></p>

        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><u>Comments</u>: As stated 
          I’m an Anime fan so this figure struck me as a character you’d see in 
          ‘Cutie Honey’ or something similar. I like the feeling of weight and 
          solidity of the character. Frugality in the head means the modeler has 
          experience and knows the texture will make up a lot of ground down the 
          road. The stylized lower legs seem slightly weak, but overall this model 
          is well done.</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>57. Miss Guantanamo Bay<br>
          </b>Pose: D’ohh<br>
          Proportions: Very Cool<br>
          Texture Potential: Cool<br>
          Animation Potential: Very Cool<br>
          Overall Use of Triangles: Very Cool</font></p>
        <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="aphrodite57.php"><img src="images/thumbs/aphrodite57.jpg" width="125" height="106" border="1"></a></font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><u>Comments</u>: Miss GB 
          would have done better if the modeler had taken the time to pose her 
          (just save the default position version for future reference). Nevertheless, 
          she is a good model and I’m impressed by the leg structure – especially 
          around the hips. The hip juncture point and shoulder are probably the 
          most challenging part of a figure when animating. Sometimes it seems 
          like there’s too many polys, but in the shoulder you usually can’t have 
          enough. In the hips area, the inverse is usually true. The front of 
          the hips actually works better in CS if you use <i>fewer lines</i>, 
          but the rear needs plenty to hold its shape.</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>36. Miss Oklahoma<br>
          </b>Pose: Okay<br>
          Proportions: Very Cool<br>
          Texture Potential: Very Cool<br>
          Animation Potential: Cool<br>
          Overall Use of Triangles: Cool</font></p>
        <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="aphrodite36.php"><img src="images/thumbs/aphrodite36.jpg" width="125" height="98" border="1"></a></font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><u>Comments</u>: Originally 
          on the Not-so-B list, Miss O caught my eye the second time through the 
          stack because she’s got a good stance and nice polygonal symmetry. Her 
          hair should be more influenced by gravity and her legs are pretty bland, 
          but I have the feeling a good texture would make her stand out. I like 
          the fact she has normal breasts, too. But, for all the technical acumen 
          this model represents, she’s a bit too conventional to be a true Love 
          Doll.</font></p>
        <p>&nbsp;</p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>THE NOT-SO-BAD</b></font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The majority of the submissions 
          fell into this category and I’m not going to give too detailed an analysis 
          other than to give some gut reactions and what could have helped the 
          entry. They’re listed in no particular order. </font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>05. Miss California</b></font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Nice Breasts, nice legs (guess 
          I’ll have to do the rest of that Kelly tutorial to get some of you to 
          the point where you can model the rest of the body, eh?). Mittens for 
          hands are fine if they look like hands and represent the appropriate 
          finger length.</font></p>
        <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="aphrodite05.php"><img src="images/thumbs/aphrodite05.jpg" width="121" height="125" border="1"></a></font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>06. Miss Colorado</b></font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Cool Bike, but why? Some 
          edges need turnin’ there biker boy, but I think a good texture would 
          save your modeling inadequacies. You have to be the one on ‘Nox, right?</font></p>
        <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="aphrodite06.php"><img src="images/thumbs/aphrodite06.jpg" width="119" height="125" border="1"></a></font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>08. Miss Delaware</b></font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Nice rack and head. The rest 
          is too hard to make out. And why the big hand, Jade? Repeat after me, 
          Love Doll…L-O-V-E-D-O-L-L. </font></p>
        <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="aphrodite08.php"><img src="images/thumbs/aphrodite08.jpg" width="125" height="105" border="1"></a></font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>10. Miss Georgia</b></font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Uh…I think ‘old maid’ or 
          ‘alien’. Kinda dumpy if you ask me. With some work she could be damn 
          sexy, though.</font></p>
        <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="aphrodite10.php"><img src="images/thumbs/aphrodite10.jpg" width="125" height="102" border="1"></a></font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>11. Miss Hawaii</b></font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I first put Miss H. in the 
          A pile, but reconsidered after I found her less proportionate as she 
          needed to be (more back, Bro and fix her arms). Nice nips, though!</font></p>
        <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="aphrodite11.php"><img src="images/thumbs/aphrodite11.jpg" width="125" height="125" border="1"></a></font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>12. Miss Idaho</b></font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Like the hair, like the ‘tude. 
          Don’t like the too-few-poly-look (999 faces, remember?)</font></p>
        <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="aphrodite12.php"><img src="images/thumbs/aphrodite12.jpg" width="125" height="117" border="1"></a></font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>14. Miss Indiana</b></font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Lock her butt cheeks to her 
          pelvis. Linked to the leg they’ll jus make her ass look flatter than 
          it already looks. Nice pose, though.</font></p>
        <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="aphrodite14.php"><img src="images/thumbs/aphrodite14.jpg" width="125" height="98" border="1"></a></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"></font></p>
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