" So much complaining about lacking quality in the galleries and at the same time many say, they don't even look at the galleries! That's illogical. I look as often, as I have time. And I find quality. " I'll only look at the galleries of people who post in the forums if I'm so inclined. Rarely, if ever, do I go to the "actual" galleries area of the site and browse around. That's not illogical, it's logical selection. "As for the grades, I'll only downgrade from an excellent if the render is sheer crap. I supose I would rather encourage posting when I know the more you do the more you improve." That's like saying the "great" and "good" rankings are useless and shouldn't even be there. I'm not sure when it happened, but somewhere along the line the words 'great' and 'good' somehow turned into 'poor' and 'bad'. Someone isn't going to improve themselves just by continuously rendering the same mistakes over and over. They won't improve until someone shows them how, or they're given the incentive to do it themselves. I think making someone believe they're producing outstanding work when clearly they're not is harmful to an artist. Reason being, if they're constantly sugar-coated with warm and fuzzy comments on their work, they might eventually start believing it, and then later when someone comes along and sets them straight (in a not-so-pleasant way), it will either screw them all up in the head, or they'll wind up looking like an idiot arguing about it. ;-P

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Tools :  3dsmax 2015, Daz Studio 4.6, PoserPro 2012, Blender v2.74

System: Pentium QuadCore i7, under Win 8, GeForce GTX 780 / 2GB GPU.