JoeyAristophanes opened this issue on Dec 14, 2003 ยท 62 posts
gagnonrich posted Wed, 24 December 2003 at 10:48 AM
I truly appreciate all the freebies that people have been providing. Admittedly, I've spent more time downloading than using all these freebies. I use Catfish (a freebie CD indexing program) to find items I'm looking for. I'm also slowly trying to index all the content I've got, with thumbnails and comments, to make it easier to find items I want to use. I'm starting to use that content because I'm finally using Poser to create drawings. There are a lot of great freebies out there and more of it is good than bad and a lot of it is incredible. There's the occasional clunker that I'll never use, but there's also a lot of stuff that will prove useful. It's just a matter of time till a particular drawing calls out for it. I wish there were more time to thank each and every individual that takes the time to provide something for free to the community, but I download far more stuff than I'll ever use (I have a horrible packrat mentality--but I also never know what I'm going to render next). There's just not enough time to thank everybody individually. I still need to look up zip files to let a few creators know that I'm using their freebies in my images. In the end, that's why creators are sharing their work--to see others productively using what they made. For everybody that has contributed to the community, I give my thanks. Don't let idiots dissuade you from what you're doing. There are always going to be freeloaders who think they deserve a free ride in life and never appreciate anything they receive. They don't represent the majority of people, but seem to have more time than brains to disparage things they should be grateful for.
My visual indexes of Poser
content are at http://www.sharecg.com/pf/rgagnon