Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: So what does everyone think of the new communities thing?

dialyn opened this issue on Jul 08, 2003 ยท 45 posts


dialyn posted Tue, 08 July 2003 at 11:26 AM

Personally, and I have no vote so it doesn't matter, I don't see the point of sorting the communities by the same subject areas as the forums and galleries. It seems like a redundancy. But, as someone said, it may be helpful for new people and I have no problem with that. And there may be some new content planned for the communities that are software specific. Personally, I agree that the most interesting graphics are done with a combination of software rather than one specific package. I may hang out in the Poser forum the most, but I really admire what people are doing in Vue and Bryce galleries (and others) to take 3d graphics beyond the predictable and into something really original and striking. That's when I see someone with true artistry as opposed to someone just copying what everyone else is doing for the sake of hits. What really is depressing is that people who clearly have great technical talent have such limited imaginations. If I had their skill, I'd be doing better graphics than what I am. I'm limited by my abilities, which are extremely small, but why in the world would a person with all that skill do the same dreary graphic over and over and over again? I don't get it. But that's why I stay out of the Poser gallery. It's not the new people who are still learning and exploring the software that brings Poser down to a low level of accomplishment. It's the people who stay in their rut and never venture beyond what they have done a hundred times before. Oh well. There are some exceptions and those are the ones that are wonderful to discover. It's just they don't hit the Hot 20 very often and it is difficult to uncover them unless someone points them out. Wouldn't it be nice if the Poser community page highlighted really wonderful graphics instead of business as usual?