Wheeee!  My second favorite subject!  (My first favorite is censorship.)

Well, to beat a dead horse, here goes:

Let the babies have their bottles.  Let them all pet and groom themselves like they are special.  You are not going to win an arguement with them.

I've tried my hand at modeling, it's f*cking hard!  I have a lot of respect for those who can make fantastic things out of polygons and nurbs and so on.

"Art" is the final product.  If you feel that your final image conveys something perfectly and there is no way in which you would change it.  If, in the end you feel it is done and does what it needs to do. then it is art.

If you did it for fun and you are reasonably happy with the result, then it is probably not art, but who cares, continue to enjoy your new hobby and never stop expressing yourself.

If you did something for a company under the guidance of their directors or production managers or whatever and it gets published, then it is probably "commercial art" and hey, congrats, you are making money.

If you create something form the ground up and manage to sell it, then who gives a rat's ass what the title is, congrats, you made some cash, made something you are proud of and made other people happy by sharing it.

Elitist this, and craftsperson that.  Who cares?  Let people create and express themselves.  I see the most wonderful things communicated in the most amateur images sometimes.  I've seen that most hollow thing in some of the best produced images.

Still, I am not one to judge.

Everyone has a right to express their ideas, feelings, fantasies and visions.  I will not rob anyone of that right and I will always applaud everyone who is brave enough to put it out there.

F*ck those who will put others down for not being this or creating that.  They are dicks and they deserve nothing for their elitist mindset.

Working in the TV and film industry, I once had a filmmaker brow-beat me for not using Macs!  When you watch a movie can you tell if it has been editted on a Mac or a PC?  Who gives a crap?  More elitist B.S.

In the end you have to post where people understand what you do.  BTW, I've seen many of these elitists slip a Poser person into their images, because after scultping cars, spacehips and buildings, they still realize that a premade human is much easier and better and will contirbute more to their final images.

Anyway, I'm ranting, it's been a crappy night.  A cookie to anyone who actually read this!