Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Not OT but not strictly Poser - artistic merit

SamTherapy opened this issue on May 25, 2005 ยท 36 posts


rdf posted Wed, 25 May 2005 at 11:35 PM

Yeah. I get this constantly. I worked with traditional media for years, e.g., oils, pencils, pen & ink, airbrush, and when Poser finally got to a point where one could get pretty good results, I was surprised to find that I have not ever churned out the images. I am not sure why, but I think some of it has to do with the fact that a great many of the challenges I faced with traditional media are now all but gone. That's a good thing in a way because I wasn't always up to those challenges, and sometimes got very frustrated trying to get the image in my head onto the canvas or illustration board. But it seems to be a bad thing, too. I think part of the problem is that CG software, and Poser in particular, lets you get up and going pretty fast and able to make something look pretty decent in fairly short order. But then you've got an awfully lot of choices and decisions to make, i.e., tweak this, tweak that, tweak, tweak, tweak, tweak, tweak, tweak, tweak, tweak, tweak, tweak, tweak, tweak, tweak, tweak, tweak, tweak, tweak, tweak, ugh! Well that's me anyway. I don't work commercially anymore, as nearly all my attention is elsewhere. But I still like to dabble. Or at least I thought I did. But I've hardly finished anything for months now, and the more I mess around with CG, and Poser, the worse it gets. When I do finish something, I'm never entirely pleased with it. I think it's because in the back of my mind, I know virtually anyone with a few bucks and a little patience and the barest artistic sensibility can get at least something that looks fairly decent, and while I might have settled for that at one time, knowing what is truly possible with CG, my standards have gone through the roof, through the sky, beyond the cosmos. When I really apply myself, I can now do things with CG I would have marvelled at in the old days when I was working with the old media, but I just don't want to settle anymore for eye candy. I want something utterly mind-blowing. It's totally neurotic.