JettBoy opened this issue on Jan 03, 2003 ยท 47 posts
atthisstage posted Fri, 03 January 2003 at 10:16 AM
As a member of several Poser fora, I can tell that on almost any site with a gallery, the overwhelming majority of images are gorgeous women in their 20s with fabulous makeup -- and those images aren't being created by horny 14 year olds. In some respects, Jett, it becomes a vicious circle after a while: DAZ et al create things for Vicky, thumb them on the default, which just happens to be a gorgeous 20-something, and because most people can't think outside the box that much, we get regaled with countless variations on the same theme. That in turn leads to people viewing that as a "trend", and we get still more images of the same cookie-cutter ilk. Even some of the so-called "Masters" around here have succumbed to refusing to go outside a very narrow range because that kind of work "sells" to a community that can't think beyond a really small framework. It has nothing to do with nudity, when you think about it. Images of 20-something supermodels just about always get the big hits... and I'm sure the revisionist art historians will parade in with "the beauty of the female form throughout art history" -- when in fact so-called pinup art is a fairly modern development (Hell, in classical Greece, the usual rule of thumb was only men were shown nude while women were clothed from neck to toes). But it's pretty sad when we allow ourselves to be boring -- and that, whether people want to admit it or not, is exactly what's going on: the same model, the same props, the same default lighting more often than not. Zzzzzzzz. Someone please wake me when the Next Big Thing comes along, okay? I was actually glad to see the Mouse, because it gave us a bit of a break from the relentless parade of Poser-created clones. But it's sometimes fun to tweak people's noses at this: back when I had a gallery on this site, I posted an image that had, as a thumb, a nude woman in silhouette behind venetian blinds. When you opened it up, there was an image instead of her really angry father, telling the little perv viewer to take a hike before Dad did a tap dance on his face. Over four hundred hits in three days, bud. And more than a few pissed-off comments from people who didn't enjoy getting jacked around in their search for virtual tit. So heed the sage advice in post 2 and screw 'em all. Do what you enjoy, whether it's xeroxed nudes or the very arcane and strange work of DavidHo. The numbers are irrelevant around here.