2024-05-02T21:54:52-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150210932/peopling-studio-allows-you-to-increase-the-diversity-in-your-renders Paul Petrunia 2020-08-10T20:24:00-04:00 >2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/d3/d3465e015818a39646570440334ed86b.gif" border="0" /><p><a href="https://peopling.studio/" target="_blank">Peopling Studio</a> offers a 3D library of diverse characters in a variety of scenes to use and customize in your digital renders. The project appears to be voluntarily founded and run, offering free downloads.&nbsp;</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/9f/9fe2c33d482647346ff9ae3cb053bbe2.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/9f/9fe2c33d482647346ff9ae3cb053bbe2.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=514"></a></p></figure><p>Their "disclaimer" describes the motives and inspiration behind the project...</p> <p>Realism is not neutral. CGI has its own politics. We can see this in digital representations of non-white individuals, which tend to be at best stereotypical and, at worst, caricaturish and overly sexualized. Meanwhile, whiteness tends to be represented as default and neutral as evidenced by the Jack and Jill avatars in Siemens Tecnomatix Jack human modeling software or the original Sketchup scale figure, Bryce. To counter these traditions, PEOPLING STUDIO puts forth black and brown skin tones as the default settings. We also acknowledge the limitations of 3D human models, in particular the distinction between 3D scan data and sculpted meshes. We provide sculpted meshes as these are the least exaggera...</p>