StealthWorks opened this issue on Apr 21, 2004 ยท 94 posts
Lorraine posted Fri, 23 April 2004 at 3:52 PM
I suppose one reason to categorize the galleries by the program is to cater to the people who sell, buy or use a particular program. When I first bought Poser (yikes Poser 2) I immediately looked for others who were using the same program to learn how they were getting results...mine at the time were ...well...sad...I was stuck for a week at least with the head and arms twisting up and the feet stuck to the floor...there are many levels of learning a particular program...and I have yet to wrap my poor brain around the modeling aspects.... It took a while to learn that I could move the poser stuff into Bryce to improve the "render" and to get more interesting backgrounds...or to make backgrounds that I could use as backgrounds in poser. The community has grown, there now are many more programs, but I suppose the community may have grown beyond the "wow look what this program can do" approach, we see more and more combinations of different programs. Including strictly 2d and photography. I like the idea of re-vamping the galleries to just allow us to browse through the results...but change is hard especially when there still are many who are finding the galleries a place to learn what they can accomplish with one program or the other or combinations of different programs. I see the entire experience in Renderosity evolve and grow in response to the community wants and needs. perhaps it is time to look at the gallery as a gallery of art and to use the forums as a means of finding those people who use the same program by artist search... But I still sometimes look at something and think wow, I wonder if I can re-create that in Poser...rendering is still variable to my view, some programs recreate reflections better than others...so we ship our figures into that program to take advantage of that improvement... I can see the point in terms of using a program without post work, it is sometimes a short cut or a crutch, but it also is a legitimate tool. There is a comment section where the artist can explain and often does explain that they did a lot of post or not so much... For me it may be a moronic way to organize the galleries but it is how it has evolved...from a group of enthusiasts who started with one program and shared techniques on how they expanded the one program to include other techniques... maybe it is time to change the organization...but we are thankful that the databases are set up at all allowing us to narrow down our "perusing" ...or not...