@Nukeboy: Thanks, it's sure a very good feeling to be back here, even if now I use some other software.

You say:

Quote - Personaly, I don't see how anyone can knock your work, Stefano, it's just great. [endquote]

But, you know, this is the problem. It's not great, otherwise I'll be working at Pixar or somewhere else and not as an hobbyist like I am. I'm an amateur just like 99% of us, so I just need critics to improve. Like Incarnadine said, i.e., my last one was too clean, and he was absolutely right. This means that the next one of similar subject I'll try to do, I'll try to do it dirtier, because from his crit I learned something.

What I ranted about was that it seems every day more difficult to pose a crit on someone's work without him/her getting over-heated about that. That's why I stopped altogether to give out rankings to the images I comment: I simply don't see any point in giving out only "excellent" ranking because if I give a "great" I get someone upset...

I don't know if this is a recent issue, but I think so... because when I begun posting here (2 years ago) I thought a "Good" ranking was absolutely beautiful... now I see only "excellents" and nothing else.

And I wonder... what would've happened to my 3D art if I took Alvin's (it's the one I remember most at the beginning) advice like personal offence?

Maybe I'd be still making shiny sphere on checkered planes.

So (and now I refer to another thread, started by Doug), if Doug says something about a politic image, or if I say something about the lighting in another, why nobody seems able to stand a technical criticism or a politic disagreement?

This is what worries me most. How someone can just think of improving without considering critics and disagreement as part of his/her artistic growth?

Fact is, this "everything is beautiful" policy that rules here is not true. And if you post something on HighEnd or at CgTalk you immediately get a cold shower on how the real things work. I've begun to see Rosity as a sort of "limbo", where you can get your ego boosted up a bit just when you need it to be boosted up, but is this really useful?

After all these months of forced leave, I've become to think that

Forum is More True than Gallery.

[BTW, can you say "Truer" in English?]

Because here in the B-Forum I can have, i.e., tjohn's comment about my wrong use of light or Incarnadine's crit about my all-too-clean alley walls, or Drac saying me that I'm modeling in Maya like I'm using Wings and so on... and, at the end, all this is way more useful.

And it's just too cool that you're taking me seriously even if I don't use Bryce anymore, because the other forums are not like this one, and you all know it :)

S. Message edited on: 10/12/2004 19:46