Penguinisto opened this issue on Dec 04, 2006 ยท 175 posts
nomuse posted Tue, 05 December 2006 at 7:53 PM
Too true, Xeno, but it is an attitude that can be taken to extremes. There are millions of weekend painters. They enjoy the process, they have a basic command of the tools. They get out there and paint their vases of flowers or their old wooden boat, and they enjoy them, and their friends enjoy them. They don't DEMAND that their paintings be allowed to hang in the Louvre, or be sold at Southeby's. The 3d world is a little too recent, too raw, and too much entangled with the basic architecture of the online world; many-to-many, not the one-to-many of the old Studio system (or, in an earlier age, the defining tastes of the court who sponsored the artists and set the style for all that could afford it to emulate.) There isn't much in place to sort the incredible volume of work that is coming though. It comes down to a competition for eyeballs. By saying "My Poser work is as worthy as your Lightwave work" you are also saying "I don't care if you are an LW professional looking for information to help you in your career....you are going to have to sit through all this Poser stuff to get to what you need." As the 3d world evolves, it will naturally form itself into more and more landscapes to where the expectations of the participant will be more closely met; schools, specialties, genres, movements. This is both good and bad; good because when you are working on a deadline you don't need to deal with dead wood (aka scroll through items that have nothing to do with your specific software), and bad because as borders are drawn the people inside become insular, and lose the greater understanding and the access to the original thinking that comes from outside their particular box.