https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4165&p=45985#p45985 ----------------------------------- Endosphere Tuesday, 09 December 2025, 09:23 PM Re: Notable Posettes Of Yesteryear ----------------------------------- Molly Mostly was a famous pinup and comic heroine Posette around the turn of the century, created by an artist called Rad. Though I don't recall, I suppose the old-time Renderotica (which the modern bazaar version apparently doesn't resemble much) was her main venue, as none of the images I have of Molly appear on Renderosity. Unfortunately I only have a few saved images of Molly Mostly, who in her own day was generally considered as one of the prettiest Posettes ever to appear in on-line galleries. She occasionally appeared in stand-alone pinup images, but her main claim to fame was her very own freebie digital comic book, called 'The Erotic Adventures of Molly Mostly and Company.' Consisting of about 130 'pages' (ie separate frames), Molly's sci-fi comic also featured many popular Poser 4 characters of the day such as Nurse Ratchett (I think made by PhilC) and Troll (a mischievous little monster, author unknown), as well as Zygote's Bigfoot, Cyclops, and Brainstem (a robot). The zany plot was all in good fun, and it was far more cheesy/teasy naughtiness than any explicit stuff-- one might called it merely 'Rated R' as opposed to 'Rated X.' If anyone recalls the old print comic called 'Little Annie Fannie' that appeared in Playboy magazine throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Molly Mostly's comic was far more like the innocuous versions of Annie from the 1960s, rather than the raunchy versions from the 1970s. I have the Molly Mostly comic, but unfortunately those were the ancient days of dial-up (phone line) internet and small files, so the page images are only diminutive and blurry jpegs of quality that would not be considered acceptable today in terms of visual acuity. It's sad, because the comic was not only entertaining, but historically important due to its wide popularity in the on-line Poser community of the time. I tried searching on multiple search engines, but I couldn't turn up even a single image or description of Molly Mostly, much less her entire comic book, so apparently it's all lost forever. In the image below, the upper portion includes a few samples of original Molly Mostly by Rad. [img]https://www.posetteforever.com/files/posted_images/5475/molly_mostly.jpg[/img] Along with free comic book download, author Rad also included a P4NW face morph for his Molly Mostly character, which as far as I know was the only component ever released for her. In the lower portion of the image above, I was therefore able to have a current Posette do a simple cosplay session as Molly, with Rad's face morph applied. Unfortunately the morph alone does not result in the face of Molly as she regularly appeared in online galleries of the day. As my few reference images of her are small, blurry, and variously distorted by differing camera focal lengths to fit into comic frames, I did the best I could (without in truth really spending very much time on it) to do some further shaping to better resemble the original Molly. For this cosplay sample I also quickly touched up an old generic skin texture called 'Etosha' by Nod to add some lipstick, eyeliner, sapphire-hued eyes, and bushy eyebrows of the sorts the original Molly seems to have usually had. The original Molly character appears to make use of a chunky hairstyle called 'Hair with Bangs' that came with the old freebie Xena the Warrior Princess character for Poser 4 (that one made by renapd). Since I have that character as well, I was fortunately able to add what I believe is the original hair to this modern Posette cosplay example. The original Molly appears to have a rather nice texture applied to her hair (though not transmapped), but here I only used direct object coloring and a generic bump map on it, as the hair model itself is a mess as an example of geometry, and I didn't feel like fooling around with a proper texture for it. Molly wore several outfits in her comic, but in this cosplay I simply transmapped the standard P4 Catsuit to replicate an exercise outfit the original Molly wore on the sample image for her face morph. A simple hue texture (matching the original character color) and generic bump map were also applied to the suit. In the reference image I consulted, Molly also wears the standard P4 Tennis Shoes, colored as I've depicted here. Molly's other primary outfit in her comic book appeared to consist of the standard P4 Halter Dress (the top turqouise, the skirt black), along with some black stockings and high heeled-black shoes. Props often used by the character were a costume-party style face mask (colored to match her mauve hair), and what appears to be a Desert Eagle pistol from the old Lara Croft character (by Phil Hokusai). In terms of Posette aesthetics, the original Molly Mostly model was notable in appearance for her thick pouty lips, large doe eyes, bushy eyebrows, and habitually sultry facial expressions, rather than her physique/figure. These details made her somewhat unique as a popular P4NW pinup model in the Poser 4 era. Most of the other renown P4 pinups in those days were Evolution Eve or Eve-alike models burdened with ludicrously oversized bosoms, in contrast to Molly, who appears to have been a standard P4NW with a relatively mundane figure. Molly was slender, yet at the same time her physique did not alternately exhibit any waifish sort of anime or cartoon-style exagerration. I can only speculate, but it's entirely possible that Rad only ever released a face morph for Molly Mostly because the face was the only geometry of standard P4NW he ever modified to make his character. We should therefore greatly credit the general artistic skill of Rad in turning an almost totally average and default Posette into charming depictions that became one of the top and most memorable original characters of the Poser 4 era. :clap: :clap: :clap: **** Added Later **** I've been looking at many, many Posettes in preparing materials for discussion here. Serendipitously, I found an unrelated P4NW morph in the Morphette figure by Sekroid that is very useful in any modern attempt to recreate Molly Mostly. The morph is called 'skullshape,' and should be applied inversely (at a negative value). The main problem Rad's own Molly face morph is that it horriblly distorts the shape of Posette's skull-- which wasn't necessarily a problem for Molly Mostly herself, given the nature of the unusually large 'Hair with Bangs' hairstyle she wore, which hid the problem in the bulk of the hair itself. However, the problem is addressed almost entirely by use of Morphette's skullshape morph in conjunction with the Molly Face. When verifying this further refinement of the Molly Mostly recreation depicted above, I also found that a closer faithfulness to Molly's original look can be obtained by making further x scale and y scale reductions to her Hair with Bangs (which is a massive hair model). As I recall, the Morphette figure by Sekroid was somewhat controversial in olden days, because it was an extensive morph-library type of figure which did not attribute credit to any of the morphs wholly redistributed with her, most of which were made by others. Therefore the 'skullshape' morph available in Morphette may have been made by someone else, and known by another name, but I don't know what that may have been nor do I have any other info on the topic. If anyone familiar with Morphette's 'skullshape' morph has more info, by all means tell us all about it so people still interested today have a better chance of finding an ancient morph on the Wayback Machine. On a similar tack, if I've accidently confused Morphette's reputation with some other controversial Posette of the past, anyone who knows otherwise should speak up, so we can have an accurate historical record here. :)