Forum: Community Center


Subject: Genres within the gallery

tammymc opened this issue on Feb 26, 2003 ยท 171 posts


Brendan posted Thu, 27 February 2003 at 7:39 AM

The physical process of editing the images presents no problem, this is an opportunity for individual artists to evaluate and categorise their work into genre if they wish to, there is not compulsion to do so. "I find it so strange that this whole community, galleries, forums, marketplace.. all of it is focused on Poser,....." Patently not true unless one only sees Renderosity as a Poser site? which I do not! there are plenty of people here that would not touch Poser with a barge pole. "As far as the argument for "Pure Bryce" or "Pure Vue" - I don't see why they would want it, they ALREADY HAVE the Poser gallery to call their own." This statement is insulting to artists that do produce images specific to he software they use and post in the designated gallery for that software. Half of my work could be placed into a Pure Bryce gallery and shocking though it may seem, I have no interest in infiltrating the Poser gallery for any reason whatsoever. The main question is do we wish to direct / lead viewers to an image that speaks for itself as a tangible production of our creative vision or a technical exercise on how clever we are at using a bit of software? This new facility will help most folks navigate their way to what interests them. I could come up with many reasons why I don't get more viewing of and more understanding as to how I create my work. Ultimately it is about the knowledge of the viewer, not the systems of classification. I reiterate my feeling that this is a good move for the community at large, especially for non posting visitors and newcomer's. It will always be in a general sense that any work can be put into a category but as no two artists are the same no amount of sub-division of genre will lead everyone to my doorstep. Nice work team! I am sure this facility will evolve into a indispensable tool for all that visit. A small rider as I am now many posts behind... I do think that Modelling would be a legitimate genre, there are many fine and instructive images posted of objects that are complete in themselves as studies in the creation of models.