"Since I never do postwork, nobody will say "did you paint that." My renders do not look painted."

Just to be clear, postwork does not always mean making a render look "painted". You can render something photorealistic, and do some postwork to enhance the illusion of realism further. In general terms, postwork in 3D is widely known as doing things like color correction and compositing. It's something that's done in the film industry all the time. In fact, I don't think I'd ever do any serious animation work without taking it to post in AfterEffects or Combustion.

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"I doubt seriously that Da Vinci stepped back from the Mona Lisa & thought... "someone else made the paint, someone else made the canvas, someone else made the brushes, someone else made the easel, etc, etc.... who should get credit for painting the picture?""

I always thought this was a faulty analogy. No offense. :-) The problem here is, making your own pigments, etc. really does not compare very well to what we do (or don't do) with Poser. Something more comparable to a traditional artist, like Da Vinci, making all his own tools would be a digital artist who writes his own software applications, then uses them to make great things. No, I think a more fair comparison to what we do in Poser would be if Da Vinci had someone else draw a pencil sketch of the Mona Lisa, to which he later added the color, shading, and depth with paint.

Message edited on: 02/01/2005 13:18

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