"I think that painting on clothes, or hair (not touch ups, I mean the entire thing) or tubing flowers, or scenery onto an image and similar type postwork turns the image into a mixed medium"

So far, I agree with you.

But...

"Its not really a poser backroom if the button labeled "TOP IMAGES" leads you to images with large (or even small) amounts of postwork."

It's your wording here that troubles me. In Poser 6, there is a new feature render option called "shadows only". This option is a POSER FEATURE. It allows artists to render only the shadows of an image for compositing in post. THIS is something I want to see done more often, it's something I believe is CRUCIAL to knowing the "ins and outs" of Poser for production purposes, and I believe anyone who doesn't know how to use it is missing out on a very very important part of Poser's capabilities.

Now... in this world of "no postwork" some are eager to bring about, you might as well do away with that "shadows only" feature entirely, because according to some of the "purists" around here (not you specifically), the process of compositing a shadow pass in post, is not a so-called "pure Poser render", and shouldn't be there in the Poser portion of the gallery, or perhaps the backroom? This is what could be interpreted from such wording. So as you can see, it's not so easy to say "no postwork allowed", or "poser images only" or whatever, when there's varying degrees of such a thing, and some of it is actually incorporated directly into the Poser application. Yes, you must use a second application to composite afterwards, but this is all part of the 3D process.

Again... if finding out what Poser is capable of is important to someone, then I would suggest reading or posting to the Poser Technical Forum, or perhaps browsing through a few technical manuals, etc. It's a far more efficient way to learn than studying the images others are producing with the application. No one is going to paint like Da Vinci after viewing the portrait of the Mona Lisa. ;-) Message edited on: 09/19/2005 10:04

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