Avengia, I do not agree with you. If you like hair painting, nothing wrong with that. In fact, you're one of the better hair painters I've seen in the galleries. But like pakled, SamTherapy, and many others, I want to get as much out of Poser as is possible. In my opinion, an image that is 5% poser and 95% painting is no longer a poser image, it's a 2D image. Which has absolutely nothing to do with the quality of the art, by the way. Using transmapped hair, twiddling the morph dials, adding magnets where morphs just won't do the job, playing with the shader nodes to get as much out of the textures as possible, tweaking render settings until it looks good - that IS an effort. Just like painting good hair is an effort. Two different ways to achieve results. The artistic value of either way does not depend on its nature, it depends on the effort and talent of the artist using the method. But I have to agree that the hair in quite a few images looks rather "instant". Doesn't only occur with transmapped hair, there are also many images in which I recognize the "instant hair" brushes - a simple outline plus a fill pattern is just as effortless as slapping on a default Poser hair figure/prop. Getting dynamic hair to look the way you want is also quite an effort. But if an artist applies him/herself and doesn't give up, he/she can get stunning and unique results. Same as with hair painting. The same goes for clothing. Just slapping on some conformers and using the supplied textures is the easy way out. Adjusting everything with morphs and magnets is always worth the effort. Playing with the shader nodes will enhance the default textures. Using well-made dynamic cloth and tweaking the animation, experimenting with wind forces, plus the shader node tricks I already mentioned will give the artist unique looking cloth. Again, you can reach a similar effect by painting the cloth. Again, an artist who spends the effort to paint cloth well will be able to create unique results. And again, there are many images in which the cloth is nothing more than an outline filled with a pattern. So again, the quality of the artwork doesn't have anything to do with the tools or methods used. The only thing that matters is effort and talent of the artist.

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