Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: The Case for NOT Postworking Images

StealthWorks opened this issue on Apr 21, 2004 ยท 94 posts


Phantast posted Fri, 23 April 2004 at 2:31 AM

Well, let me answer one question here. Several people above have said something along the lines of, "If purism isn't important, why are the galleries arranged by application, then?" The answer is, because the gallery arrangement is moronic. It makes as much sense as sorting short stories according to those written using Word, those written with Star Office and those typed on a traditional typewriter. I'm sorry to speak bluntly, but this business of "showing the capabilities of the software package" appeals to a sort of anally retentive class of people who like things like collecting matchbox labels. It is nothing about art. MungoPark wrote: "This is beating a dead horse because most of you dont get the point. It is absolutely not about showing off the capabilities of a software or Poser or whatever - its about the creation of virtual reality in a 3d environment. The fact that you fix an elbow later possibly is because you are not able to deal with the 3d anatomy and its limits." Virtual reality? Really? With the fancy goggles and all? Hardly. In so much as a 3D app allows you to create an imaginary environment, you can only communicate this via images until someone makes an affordable 3D printer, and if you want to show off your images in public you make them as good as you can if you have any pride in your work. Having to fix an elbow is nothing to do with the limits of 3D anatomy, unless you mean the limits Poser applies. Having to "deal with" those limits would mean never showing a character drinking a glass of water, even though that is easily accomplished by a real human. Imposing that sort of limitation on yourself I would find deeply repelling - no kneeling poses because Poser can't do knees, and so on. I don't actually do a lot of postwork - only as much as I need - but the idea of sorting images by postworked and not-postworked is deeply silly. In many cases I couldn't tell if you a picture of mine was postworked or not.