The difference between good art and bad art reminds me of a gag I once heard (I think it was Mel Brooks, and I'm paraphrasing here.) The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is when I get a papercut on my finger. Comedy is when someone else falls in a hole and dies. How you perceive life is all about YOU. In my case, to me good art is art I like, bad art is art I don't like. I hope I don't make anyone mad here for saying this, but except for a few people who are open-minded and energetic (most of them are Bryce Forum regulars, by the way, by and large very helpful and friendly), the people here at Renderosity have looked at so many pictures that they are somewhat jaded. So few comments and most of them are negative. I suggest that you try posting some of your best pics at 3D Commune. It is a smaller site, but the viewers there are 90% positive in their ratings and comments. The same pics I have posted in the Bryce gallery here have gotten better responses in general in 3D Commune's Bryce gallery. Don't leave Renderosity, I still love this site, and hope to continue to contribute something here. But try a different site, it can help put things in perspective. I just no longer worry about it so much.

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy