pookah69 opened this issue on Nov 16, 2003 ยท 39 posts
dialyn posted Sun, 16 November 2003 at 12:47 PM
Maybe I'm odd (I've been called worse) but I don't see anything realistic about the great majority of Poser graphics. In my world, everyone isn't a supermodel or on steroids, and most people wear a good number of clothes that aren't skin tight. I would say the majority of Poser graphics are a reflection of a never-never world populated by fairly uniform looks that are different colors of skin tones and in different stages of undress, and set in different backdrops, but they have no more to do with realisism than "Friends" does on television. I'd hope it is a progression. First the technical expertise is developed and then some few artists use the techniques to create some real art that pushes beyond the cliches of the top heavy woman and big thighed man. Right now, mostly we have graphics and not art. And that's fine. But let's not pretend it has anything to do with realism. It's nice that we have characters with freckles and moles, and pretty reflective eyes, but they are still vacuous creatures for the most part, and don't demand us to think of anything on our side. We don't honestly believe they have life because they are too rigidly perfect. It's entertainment. Nothing wrong with that. I do my graphics as an amusement with no pretensions toward art. But I also don't pretend it has much to do with realism, no matter how photorealistic the skins I buy are.