Forum: Fractals


Subject: Bryce, mixed medium, and other stuff in the fractal gallery

Deagol opened this issue on Jul 06, 2004 ยท 45 posts


Deagol posted Wed, 07 July 2004 at 11:54 AM

There are always grey areas and I am not about to be the grey area police. It just seems like a few images have come up that are not so grey. Please understand what I am saying. I am not trying to insult the artists who create these images, I am trying to help them. Let me give you a specific example without being too specific. Some time ago an image showed up in the fractal gallery with a flame background, a couple of Poser (or something) objects and a flood filter. At first I thought that the artist must have been joking. The flames were medeocre at best and the Poser objects looked like their feet were stuck in the corner between the floor and the background, or that they were walking on water. There were other things wrong as well. In our kindness, and our comment feeding frenzy, we told the artist that the image was excellent, amazing and great. By doing that the artist got the message to build more just like it. We did a disservice to that artist with our kindness. If this image appeared in the Poser, or whatever, gallery where it belonged, the artist would have been better off. On a different note, and I know that I am going to piss off some people with this one: Anybody who posts images in Renderosity, asks for comments and then claims that they build art for only their own satisfaction, is a liar, if only to themselves. I challenge anyone who makes that claim to put up or shut up and turn off their comments, or ask for help. There are a few who ask for help through comments but the vast majority of us do it to be stroked and to feed our addiction. One more thing: I am using words like "us", "we" and "our" on purpose to include me. I am guilty of doing what I am complaining about, so go ahead a dig through my gallery and fling it at me.