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Subject: Genres within the gallery

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


ShadowWind posted Thu, 27 February 2003 at 11:11 AM

John,
I think Tammy said in another thread that there was going to be a search as well, but they haven't got to it yet, so this is still a work in progress for them. The gallery genre is not going to solve the chaos, but just another avenue for people to look for work they are interested in.

While Animals of course can be considered creatures, the word creature generally refers to those of the out of this world variety, monsters, mermaids, dragons, imps, trolls, goblins. Maybe the 'Mythical Creatures' title would have kept that clearer, although judging from what has been posted in Creatures, the meaning is pretty much understood. Fantasy was too broad a category because it can cover lots of different meanings (sexual, medieval, mythical) and so in answer to the trend, I suggested the Creature category for those artists that want to do fantasy creature art without getting buried by Naked Vicky in a Temple and pinups that are perhaps sensual fantasy, but not always mythical fantasy.

I agree that Glamour and Pinup should probably be one category. I don't agree that Faeries should be under the pinup/glamour category. I think there is enough interest in that part of the community to warrant it's own category. I agree on a Generic and/or Modeled object category, because many images in the Lightwave and Rhino gallery are about artists showing off their models.

ShadowWind