StealthWorks opened this issue on Mar 31, 2005 ยท 71 posts
hauksdottir posted Fri, 01 April 2005 at 12:58 AM
There are more programs every year... as well as the stuff we hang onto. DeluxePaint anyone else? I was just reading about Modo tonight. Just a modeler for now, but with intentions to spread into rendering and animation. A complete makeover of the galleries here would be impossible unless they started with a clean slate and allowed everybody to re-upload all at once, no quota, and beware the server meltdown! Categorizing based upon the program last used, or the one in which it is rendered, is simple compared to choosing genre. Example: suppose I pun on Brownian Motion with a hyperactive little brownie... does he go under humor?, fairies?, fantasy? Koi appearing in the puddles of a sidewalk under high-heeled shoes... surreality? glamour? Or maybe I'll finish the undead mermaid picture... fantasy? horror? seascape? Suddenly, naming a program is easy! Yet, if I was a newcomer browsing these galleries for seascapes or cats or trains... would I want to have to search separately under each possible type of software? Of course, if all the cat images were together, we wouldn't have to look at dogs... and if the NVIATWAS were together, searching the rest of the galleries would be faster. ;) The advantage to this is that it would be non-judgemental... if you had an image of a cat, it wouldn't matter if you drew it, photographed it, or built-rigged-and-rendered it in Maya as long as a cat was in the image, and the purists would have to find something else to use as a measuring stick... like maybe how GOOD the iamge was. Carolly