Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: After new thumbnail policy: difference in hit counts?

linkdink opened this issue on Jan 25, 2007 · 34 posts


replicand posted Sat, 27 January 2007 at 2:53 PM

I'm not a Puritan and I'm not endorsing censorship; I don't claim to be a visual artist because I'm definitely a student. Art is subjective which makes all of this very sensitive. Also I'm aware of how much of a clusterf*ck it would be to say "this is tasteful, that is not" sitewide. So again, here's what I mean:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1372816 Is this art? Yes. Has it somehow enlightened me or answered some deep burning mystery insight into the nature of reality? No. Are male bullfighters in the real world bare chested? No.

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1372713 Is this art? Yes. OK, I'm not into fantasy, but clearly the artist has spent considerably more time thinking about the composition, although I don't know why there's a mirror on the ground; there's detail, variation and I'm sure the render took a wee bit longer than example one (I'm not saying that longer render times equate better art).

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1372223 Is this art? Yes. Since I chose images from the what's new gallery, I also wanted to find one that blew me away. This one doesn't but I did have to look at it for several seconds to understand the perspective. It's almost like "porn for philosophers" since you can't really see anything but the right foot and left knee lead the eye towards the hip.