Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: WIP V3 character please comment

Kelmar opened this issue on May 05, 2003 ยท 4 posts


kbade posted Mon, 05 May 2003 at 11:46 PM

I was one of those who looked, but didn't comment, as I thought I had nothing to say. Perhaps what I should have written was that my opinion of it depends on what you hoped to accomplish. As a technical exercise to learn morph injection, she looks attractive, and not overly Vicky, though imho, she has a philtrum problem common to a lot of V3 images (i.e., the width of the indent running from the nose to the upper lip).

If you intended more than that, I would have to say that it doesn't provoke any particular emotion or thought on my part. That could be my problem, of course, but perhaps not. Although you avoided one of my pet peeves, "the poser stare," by having the figure look into the camera, the expression is (again, imho) relatively neutral. It was this sort of thing that caused me to move on rather than comment, because there is a segment of the community that really wants only positive comments, and thus (unless I know the artist is actively seeking constructive criticism) I tend to say something nice or not comment. So if you asked for comments, I regret not having made them in the first instance.

FYI, just as background, my philosophy is that the strength of Poser is the relative ease with which pose and expression can be created. Accordingly, those are the things I tend to gravitate toward in viewing Gallery pics (and in rendering them for that matter). Which is not to say that I'm not impressed by good post-work, hair painting, etc., and one could argue that because Poser does pose and expression easily they should actually be less important than other factors. However, my modest level of talent currently keeps me focused on trying to learn Poser's strengths first, both by vieiwing and rendering.