darthbobvilla opened this issue on Jul 02, 2006 · 70 posts
Phantast posted Wed, 05 July 2006 at 10:34 AM
Quote - The most important point he makes is this one: "It has nothing of the artist's "fingerprints" on it". That, right there is what is wrong with most Poser art and it is why the Max and Maya crowd on the one hand and the traditional graphics folk on the other all say that Poser isn't really art.
Oh, that is so so so so so true.
Yet it is nothing about Poser or 3D per se, but about the badness of the way that so many people use Poser. It is not the fault of the medium. It's like photography - any idiot can pick up a camera and press the button, which the reason that 99.999% of photos have no artistic merit.
There is a site I frequent which uses a rather poor gallery software. The gallery page shows you thumbnails that are all auto-generated, i.e. the image shrunk to thumbnail size; plus it shows you the date posted (only). Now there are some artists who post there, I just have to see a glimpse of the thumbnail and I know it's their work, and I'm right. That's because they are artists, and everything they do is imbued with their personal style.
It's still Poser.