Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: The Case for NOT Postworking Images

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


unzipped posted Fri, 23 April 2004 at 1:39 PM

"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." I agree somewhat, however I for one do like to know what is possible with Poser, and some people really do some innovative stuff with it sometimes. In those cases it's nice to have a notification that what was done was done just with Poser (for the sake of this example). It's nice not to have to guess in the cases where you're wondering if the artist achieved something with or without postwork in consideration of how to reproduce a certain effect yourself. It's not so much an artistic appreciation angle as it is a technique/skill angle. But as I said before, you only really need to say something in your comments for the image in that case - I still don't see the need for categorization by technology (subject matter would be a better categorization I think). I hope that made some sense. Unzipped