Wampyir opened this issue on Feb 03, 2005 ยท 10 posts
hauksdottir posted Fri, 04 February 2005 at 12:31 AM
Does your computer have a lock? That way you can close it down so that even cleaning people or curious night watchmen can't pry and then be offended. I am reminded of some folks who sued their neighbors for sunbathing naked in their own backyard. Turned out that the neighbors had to climb a tall tree and crawl out on the branches before they could see anything. IIRC, the judge wasn't as amused as the audience. Your own attitude and comportment will be important. If the figures on your monitor are not treated as sextoys but as artist mannikins with a bit more detail, and if you aren't shameful over them, it ought to minimize the jokes and ribaldry. If the women (and these days sometimes even men) in your department have been treated as sex objects by their coworkers, they will be extra sensitive to anything which might seem demeaning. A quiet conversation with lots of respect on both sides ought to mitigate that. You might also need to have arguments at hand for why the figures are necessary. As an example, if you work for a museum making displays and dioramas, you could discuss how much easier and cheaper it would be to set up the scene, the props, and the probable clothing and test under various lights before actually buying fabrics and plywood and glass. Or maybe you need to have models of people in airplanes or office buildings to visualize traffic flows and/or escape routes. Instead of just drawing on paper, you can add people and move the camera down to eye level. whatever... present a good reason and make it logical and fiscally prudent. I've worked mostly in the game industry, and as a professional artist, so for us, naked models are no big deal, and neither is the software which creates them. Companies expect to buy it. However, we're hardly corporate conservatives. Even ultra-conservative companies such as SSI with their military sims wouldn't blink. Carolly