The History of Amanda Jones III (Patreon)

Amanda III was the first character I created in Daz Studio 4 and with Genesis 8 Female. Generally your first one of anything is when you make all your mistakes, but one thing I got right was to ask Perils of Dawn to get me started.  He'd been using Daz 4 for years and I'd just started.  He recommended a base character to me, which was SASE Renae, and we built Amanda on and around her.  My own version has since suffered countless tweaks and modifications but you can still see the prototype running around on his Patreon from time to time.

Genesis 8 Amanda has been a chameleon in that I wanted to do everything with her and try everything on her.  Over three years of using Daz 4 I have started to make better and better characters who have ended up making Amanda III look rather basic, but she's still able to win a Christmas poll.

Amanda III has had two regular hairstyles and a further three in Young Amanda guises.  And she makes excellent Young, Teen and Summer Sleuth Amandas.  Her face has far more in common with Amanda I than Amanda II.  She has youthful, friendly, delicate features and a cute perky nose, a small mouth and not oversized blue eyes.  She's a friend, a damsel, and hard not to like.

In her three years to date, Amanda III has had some memorable adventures in some of the more upscaled environments of Daz 4 iRay, and up against revamped versions of her enemies.  Like all Amandas she had her unavoidable chloroforming from LaFarge.  She starred in an Egyptian tomb CYOA where she ran into a Mummy, other monsters and even Aphir herself.  But it was as Young Amanda that she has excelled, either in her school uniform or her blue check shirt.  I released a 90,000 word CYOA on Inklewriter where Young Amanda fell into all kinds of trouble.  Amanda III, unlike those before her, hasn't been afraid to cosplay either, wearing both the Star Trek Red Shirt and also doing a stint as Princess Leia, which saw her fall foul of Vader himself.

I attach Amanda III's scrapbook and I hope it brings some fond memories like the others.  Without wishing to give anything away, I hope these little collages and the commentary show you that this is a character who exists and develops in my mind's eyes, and will always be remade - there is never a final version.