I've been meaning to ask this for some time. This is in no way a critism of any artists or Poser users. Why is so much Poser stuff (characters, hair, clothes, props & scenes) related to medieval and fantasy themes? I suppose demand drives supply. I know that there is a lot of contemporary material out there, but judging by the gallaries, most users seem to be into romantic fantasy type work. Which is fine by me.  Just curious and making an observation.

Hmmm dunno...I know for me...I make what interests me.  I've always been a fan of fantasy artwork of all types - don't really have any interest in modern or realism....I find I've even tried, by purchasing more modern clothes and props, etc, but they just don't inspire me to create...they just gather dust....

makes you wonder if anyone will ever do a sweat shirt and sweat pants..;)

I really don't dig fantasy; a lot of my stuff is either SF or Urban, or a combination of both.  I guess fantasy is popular in visuals because it's also popular as a genre anyhow, so no real surprises there.

Pakled - there are some Sweat pants for M3, over at DAZ.

I think a lot of people see stuff like Boris Vallejo's pictures and want to recreate that in Poser. After all, that is often big-busted, scantily clad women, and those seem to be a popular theme (with or without temples and swords...)

Fantasy is popular. Personally, I've never quite understood why - unless we're talking the Potter-verse all that stuff leaves me totally cold...

I have a varied interest in themes. I enjoy fantasy because it takes me back to the time of  knights, ladies, princesses and princes, good faeries etc.   I've always loved faery tales so it's no wonder I enjoy that type of fantasy art. 

Plus I tend to think that people see "real life" around them all day.  All they need to do is go outside and see people dressesd in sweats or grunge etc.  Why would they want to recreate that day in and out in their art?

For me when I set out to make something, I want to make something that "takes me away" off into far lands, even for a litle while.  Kind of like a good dream :)

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Plus I tend to think that people see "real life" around them all day.  All they need to do is go outside and see people dressesd in sweats or grunge etc.  Why would they want to recreate that day in and out in their art?

For me when I set out to make something, I want to make something that "takes me away" off into far lands, even for a litle while.  Kind of like a good dream :)

Right - my artwork is my escape...I see normal looking, normally dressed people everyday...My images are my dreamworld...Knights, Warrior Women, Faes, Sultry Enchantresses...

Basically viewing and creating fantasy art is my "calgon" moment....(You know...."Calgon...Take me Away..."

The nice thing about "fantasy" is that it's usually to see who is the good guy and who is the bad guy. Even among much Sci-Fi it's easy to determine which is which.

In real life it's a lot harder to tell which is which. It would be so nice if we could simply say, "Orcs are bad. Hobbits are good."

I think that's some of the appeal of those worlds.

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I tend to like a wide range of art themes, so I have a variety in my gallery.  Whimsical, sophisticated, fantasy, pinup, goth, trampy...  The only thing you will probably never see in my gallery is vivid violence and blatant nudity.

Thanks folks. I get the picture. I actually like most of the fantasy stuff in the gallaries. I guess day-to-day reality does become a drudge and it's nice to leave it for a while, and if you can do this through your art, why not. Thanks for the discussion.

I have been driven to Pin-up and sci-fi pinup by the available content. I had started with Poser as an alternative to the oil painting I was forced to more or less give up due to circumstances. Back with P3 and P4 I post-worked my clothes and hair in Photoshop. With Poser 5 and the nodes I got caught up in this render-realism. There is hardly any good "ordinary" clothes and what there is of it is far too expensive for me - markets of scale I guess. I have done somewhat better with "real world" sets but find nice "real world" hair is rough going. I end up doing retro-future pin-ups because there is amazing content cheap. If anyone wants to buy me more real clothes like that expensive Uzlite Base I got... I got on Poser when I lost access to real models and a good space... I painted free hand or traced printouts of the preview rather than rendering at all. Then I got V3 and RealSkinhader and I am hooked on the same render-realism as everyone else. I have finally gotten a good stable of characters that follow the range of models one gets as a painter... but I am using improvised "spaces" and struggling with making my own art classroom and artist studio. I still draw from my renders and work them up in gouache. Am I officially the last person using Poser this way?

I do toon and business setting renders for my work as a commercial artist but there is heavy post-work usually..

there's now another fantasy art mag ..ImagineFX ... but this is actually a great magazine, whether you're into fantasy/sci-fi or not... its obvious fantasy art is a big part of the scene.