kathym opened this issue on Mar 27, 2006 ยท 158 posts
pleonastic posted Wed, 29 March 2006 at 5:03 AM
i should have my head examined, since i am about to make my first post here to a thread about nudity -- a perennial favourite subject for riling the natives in any visual arts environment. hi. waves. i am not a prude (said in best richard nixon voice), but... the original post struck a chord, because i'd just been rolling my eyes at yet another nude with large breasts, this one especially eyeroll-worthy because it was offered as a "what if -- women would run the world". i barely restrained myself from commenting that if women were running the world, they'd not be going to war topless and in hotpants. and that was not actually the worst boob image of the day. so yeah, it would improve my viewing experience here if there were fewer such works of "art" present. but ya know? i am really not at all opposed to nudity. two of my favourite artists are represented on my fledgling homepage with nude images. ratscloset has hit the nail on the head: it's just the amount of bad art featuring giant boobs that overwhelms at times, and today was one of those days, which is why the original post here struck that chord. there are other things that cause an eye roll (can some people not say anything other than "fanatsic scene and excelllent!!11!11!" in their comments?), and at those moments i'd like a filter for "crap that grates on my nerves". grin. so, really -- it's a personal thing; it's about me, not about the images. as a matter of fact i like it that renderosity allows nudity, and as a new poser artist, i concur with some of the folks here who said a lot of nudity is the result of being new to this -- i have a hard enough time as yet to create a realistic pose of my own, and am currently working to understand how poser does lighting; i don't actually want to be thinking about fitting clothing yet. creating good skin is also a marvelous challenge, and one i am not familiar with, because poser is the first 3D program in which i am rendering people. i am sure my experience is not unique. my favoured solution to both, allow everyone's way of expression even if juvenile, and to spare the weary the 20,000th giant boob job, is to fix the damn filters, and to lean on people to enforce checking the box. so, to whom does one appeal for software fixes around here?