WOW, artist telling artists how to do art.

Its crazy when you buy a piece of software and someone thinks its to easy to use so then decides that what ever is created with that software is garbage.

I guess with that said if you wanted to produce computer generated graphic and consider it to be art you need to....

Create your own textures, models, lighting and poses or animations.

Well lets take that further, if thats the case you should write your own software because using someone else's software makes it to easy to create renders.

And if we go further you should create your own programming language because using someone else's language is to easy.

and if we go further still, you have to design and manufacture you own pc because using someone else's design would be to easy. but what about electricity?

I know that I went to an extreme but these kind of topics are designed only to hurt someones feeling so that a couple of people can feel better about them selves.

Myself I don't care what people use to aid them is creating an image that they have envisioned, a person with an active imagination is a happier person.

If you don't like the software other people use so what, I don't use a Mac but I still respect the people that use them.

I said this in another topic and thought it made sense "if I carve into a piece of wood but didn't grow the tree does that make me any less an artist?"

There are a lot of personal users and large companies that use already made content, and they should if it fits into what they are doing.

I do encourage building you own models but only if you want to not because yo have to.