not at all Rich, this same topic came up on an Artzone thread, AND was asked in a featured chat, and a quick look round the forums should find you a whole gangs of photosnob users complaining about evil 3d people picking on them for using postwork...

 

Common statements range "it's just a tool, why not use it" to "by not using postwork you are limiting yourself".

 

Yes some cultures have painted statues, but others have not, if you want to use postwork, do so, but it's not mandatory (as some would have you believe) nor should you have to repaint all of the image, there comes a point where postwork stops being postwork on a 3d image and just becomes a 2d image.

 

You use it when you have to, where you have to. Anything else is 2d art. Theres nothing WRONG with 2d art, make 2d art if you want to, but dont make 2d art and call it 3d art.

 

There are times when it is legitimate to pick on postwork. You submit an image to say, for example, a 'Daz Studio' gallery, your image was made with DS, somebody else submits a better looking image, an image that looks better not because  they are skilled in DS but because they are skilled in a 2d painting package.

 

If you submitted a3d render to a 2d painting gallery they would throw it out, but they expect to include their 2d art in our 3d galleries.

 

No fair...

Remember that first monthly DS gallery at daz3d? 30 images, and less than 25% were apparently made in DS at all?