Black people cutouts

[jhiler]

"Newspaper asks why New York train station renderings lack blacks Local developer Louis Cappelli’s proposal to create what he says will be a new downtown for White Plains, N.Y., has it all: glistening office towers, a five-star hotel and condominium building, and a rebuilt train station. What it doesn’t have much of is African Americans in its conceptual images. In four renderings by architect Skidmore Owings & Merrill, only four of 87 figures in the renderings were able to be identified by the Journal Sun newspaper as representing black people—less than 5%. The 2000 census showed 17% of White Plains residents are African American.
The Journal News (White Plains, N.Y.), May 18"

The fact that someone studied the images long enough to realize that the representation wasn't 'accurate' means that people are looking at this stuff, we just don't think they are. It is kind of silly in the long run, but people can be very sensitive about the whole race and ethnic thing.

My firm purchsed the RPC African American library and overall they are fairly decent.

[Morne]

Sorry to bring this up again. I desperately need some black people cutouts also. The rpc ones referred to above are very outdated and anyways black people don't look like that over here in SA. I need some business people and also some shopping people.
Marlin Studios, Got3D, rpc - none of them seems to have usefull black people in their libraries

[Olli96]

www.epictor.de

[Morne]

thanks Olli that's perfect for casual stuff. Now I just need some black guys in suits (black bussiness people)

[Neilg]

You could always just use white people in suits and photoshop the black heads onto them. True story, worked out really good.
Was not quick though, you need to be careful to not make it look odd. All the black people being misshapen and broken would probably be more racist than none at all.

[Morne]

hehe there was a movie made here by our local white funny guy and in the story there was an incident where he had to make himself up as a black guy so put make-up on his face and hands. It so happens his best friend in the story (which was black) had a situation where he had to look like a white guy so put make-up on his face and hands also. Both of them ended up in front of the urinal with a 3rd guy. The 3rd guy's eyes wondered down and he was shocked what he saw "down there", it was hilarious

[flino2004]

I was in a meeting with a developer reviewing some renderings for the presentation then we wanted more variation in races and he said once "normal people" for white people...there is a degree of racism even when he wasn't.

[davision]

Maybe somebody already said this because I only skimmed this thread... but I think a bunch of us should complain to AXYZ about their collection of non-white folks because their depictions are really just plain stupid. I assume AXYZ is in business to actually sell models -- but their collection of black people isn't useful to anybody except the KKK-affiliated Archvis community.

[oligophant]

Saddly but true, i have one client that told me , please put peruvian people on the renderings, i didn't notice that more than the half of lowpoly that i placed have blonde hair, so i change it to black, its the market they aim, as my first state say, sad but true.

[Morne]

I'm still looking for good black people. The ones from epictor.com looks ok, but they're all outside in the sun. I need something that can be used in interiors. Casual people, shopping people.
Anybody know of any new collections that arrived since this thread got started?
(the rpc ones are low res with the exception with 1 or 2 new highres ones)
we need lots