drafter69 opened this issue on May 19, 2006 ยท 244 posts
pleonastic posted Fri, 19 May 2006 at 8:56 PM
Poser and the various characters allow me to play out adult fantasies and explore the "other side to my midnight". more power to you. i see nothing whatsoever wrong with that. i don't mind discussing it either. me, i admit to either cringing or laughing out loud when seeing 3D erotica. it's just so very, very bad. no way can that stuff turn me on, or even just aesthetically please me. i realize that 90% of everything is crap, and that includes porn, of course -- but i swear, when it comes to 3D erotica, that percentage goes up to 99.999%. probably because it's hard enough to strike a realistic pose to begin with (sorta ironic, considering the software is called "poser"), but getting two or more people to interact believably is on a whole new level of competency. and, while one can achieve non-touching poses alright, anything where flesh comes in contact with other flesh is problematic because digital mesh behaves nothing like real flesh. another problem is that there's more to believable intimacy than a realistic pose. expressions matter so very much. the vacant gaze of most portrait renders gets occasionally mistaken as deep soulfulness, but that simply won't fly in a supposedly intimate depiction of two people interacting passionately -- i know fake when i see it that clearly. good erotica is damn hard to create. good 3D erotica might just be outside of what most people can achieve with the amount of effort they put into it. do you notice this sort of thing? can you overlook all that? in how much is an erotic depiction a trigger only, and can therefore be somewhat crude? i find that sort of stuff (what makes people tick :) fascinating.