I paid attention to what I did in day-to-day life with my hearing aids, such as putting them on a nightstand before bed or checking to see if they needed to be cleaned when the sound was a little odd, and I thought back to previous experiences I’ve had. While waiting for the hearing aids to be modeled, I worked on the poses. I offered feedback on the preliminary designs and showed him my own hearing aids through video chat to point out the little details that aren’t as easy to see on general reference photos, such as the tiny tube inside the in-the-ear hearing aid that allows for air to funnel into the ear and the tiny speaker. This was a joint project where I created the hearing aid poses, and Sixus1 Media created the hearing aid models. Stephanie: I’m hard-of-hearing and have worn hearing aids since I was in first grade, so this was a unique opportunity for me to apply my own experiences to what I do as a PA. We did a lot of research and worked closely with the Daz team to ensure that the products reflect what we all had envisioned. It was very important to us for the wheelchair models to be as accurate as possible and the poses to be realistic and natural. We wanted these sets to make people smile, and hopefully we managed to achieve that. 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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