Really?  I mean when you look through the galleries, you see post work done in..., or rendered in Vue, Carrera, Bryce...what ever yet it will still be in the Poser & Whatever gallery.  Isn't there something else that could go there?  I'm the lazy type so the most post work you will see from me most of the time is when I open a finished render up and save it as a Jpeg...or if I'm posting more than one image,  I used to feel guilty about posting something a Poser gallery when I ran it through Paint shop pro and added a blur effect but when you get down to the nitty gritty most of the stuff in the galleries can be considered as Mixed Medium...I'm just saying, so no one please take no offense, I like seeing when someone takes the time to do some post work, I love how images look after you run a scene through another application, I'm just saying why do we have a mixed medium category when it could go to something like...boy I really don't know....

Why post this in the Poser section?  For the most part it's the Poser galleries I see this...for that matter why an Anime and a Comic/Cartoon category...why not combine them to Comic/Anime or Anime/Cartoon?

Why am I hearing Seinfeld's voice as I type this out?  Why did I type that? And what's with this...

Yep, I agree with you mostly!
Most of my images are set up in Poser, lit and rendered in Vue6Inf [when it works] and some but not much, postwork in ps7.

I always assumed the mixed medium was for submissions of more traditional looking pieces.  For instance a crisp scan of that nice paint and fabric collage you just spent the last 3 months of your life working on.  If you look around you will see quite a few submissions that are scans of completed drawings and paintings as well as digital media, I believe it is traditional that if you use, for instance charcoal and acrylic for an image (why you would want to I don't know but you may) then it is referred to as a mixed medium.

There will be letters you know - Anime is a very distinctive style and genre that is not akin to the more standard "Marvel" or "Beano" (don't you just love the broad sweep of that range) comic category.  Anime is also split up into as many sub-divisions as more traditional "Western" comic book styles and therefore deserves it's own category.

Or someone could be making a Poser render, then painting hair on it, or perhaps doing traditional 2D work, using different techniques in the same image, etc etc.

See now...and this is by no means Renderosity's stance on the subject, I speak for myself only....when I was growing up (that was about 15 years back now), Mixed Medium meant more than one medium, ie. more than one form of medium. For example. Digitally created is still a Digital Medium, regardless of if it's 2D or 3D. Digital content + real world Photographs = Mixed Medium. Real world photographs+glued on cloth= mixed medium.  Since when did not moving between mediums equate moving between mediums?  If someone can clarify that for me, I'd really appreciate it.

Painting pictures (oil/acryl) on a canvas (fabric) is "mixed medium"? :))

I agree.... I do post on my Poser images because it enhances the whole fo what I am trying to get across.  Last year I uploaded a photo which had a little postwork done to it and it was taken out of Photography and put into mixed media which negates it's effect.   

I see Teyon's point...but here mixed medium does not mean mixed medium well at least to most.  Now if you are watermarking your image....that's not mixed medium, the same as if a painter signed his work with  a crayon. BUT to address aldp001 if you have photo's you put on a canvas and paint around them...that's mixed medium.  The point (not sure if you were joking or not...I see the happy face but just in case you weren't) ahem, the point being if you use an object created in lightwave and bring it to poser...is it poser or is it lightwave? hmmm it's clearer if the object was created in lightwave for Poser...than it's Poser....still I think mixed medium should go away...because either we don't know what it's for or we just don't care either way it's not being used in the manner it was intended.

As for Anime to me it's Japanese comics...or Japanese comic related materials.  Archie and Spiderman are world's a way in storytelling and in art but they're stil comics.  I feel Anime is a buzz word (an enduring one at that) just to explain a comic genre from a different country, American comics offer just as much diversity...but we tend to think of the Big Two (DC and Marvel) as all American Comics, when that definately is not the case.  If Germans had a different comic style drawing would we be calling it whatever Germans call comics in their native tongue.  Anime is Japanese Comics and comic related materials.  Such as Spiderman is a comic movie, although you don't see any drawings in them.
  Before the "pros" chirp in, I'm basing my thoughts on the matter from 30 years of comic collecting and being married to a Japanese woman (and now living in Japan) where if I'm reading a comic book in my car (I do that when she goes shopping) a child will see me and point and say manga....because it is.  Manga equals Comics , Anime equals Cartoon, we have two catorgories that are the same.   If any distinction should be made the categories should be  "Comics/Manga"  and "Cartoons/Anime" but I'm just nitpicking on that point.  :)
  I have several people comment on my work and say "hey, that's not Anime...it's sci-fi" because we are so used to seeing Sailor Moon and Dragonball Z, but fail to realize that there's a lot more to the genre than charecters that look that way....just like there is more to American comics than Batman and Spiderman.
 that took way too long.

@cruzin: The "photos" are stored in my mind and projected on the canvas while I paint the picture.
But yes, I joked :)

For me Poser is only a program to set up scenes (posing figures and things) with 3D objects. How this 3D objects are created is not important for me (I also use 3D objects with my Cinema 4D created in Lightwave or Max). Which software I use to render this scene I've set up with Poser is also not important (IMHO).

So I think it is fine to post such "mixed" pictures into the Poser Gallery. And if the renderengine used did a bad job (or the 3d-object creator - or Poser), why not correct this with Photoshop (or Gimp, or...)?
Perhaps there is a border somewhere. A point each "artist" has to define by themself. I'm sure his audience will correct him if he is to wrong.

Since most of my work centers around Poser figures, and since most of the work in setting up my images occurs in Poser, I post it to the Poser gallery. The majority of the work is Poser.
Yes, I render in Vue 6 Infinite.
Yes, I make objects in 3DS Max.
Yes, I fix some minor render glitches in Photoshop, and I rescale and save for Web in Photoshop.

So if the majority of the work has been done in Poser, it belongs in the Poser gallery.

That said, I often see images posted in the Poser galleries that consist of a six minute render plus six weeks of postwork. Those belong in the 2D galleries IMO. Nothing wrong with those images, on the contrary, but they're not Poser images anymore. The majority of the work has been done in Photoshop'PSP/the Gimp/Photopaint....

Ah well, this is an old bone I have. Nothing's going to change, and it's not important enough to get excited about.

IMVHO there is no need for categories. I just browse the gallery without selecting any category, so I don't miss anything. they may have started enforcing the "mixed medium" category after complaints from some folks, who alleged that one artist was doing photomanips, then categorising them as poser images. I never saw any evidence to support those allegations (e.g. an actual photo that the artist may have photoshopped to resemble a poser render), but he was encouraged to relabel them as "mixed medium" nonetheless.

I was confused by this too, so I asked :)

I think it largely depends on the gallery.

For example with Photography if you add 3D elements and / or heavily post work the image, then that's considered mixed medium.

For Poser, apparently so long as the image contains a Poser figure in it, it can remain in the Poser gallery even if heavily post worked, provided it isn't an advertisement for a product, in which case it would belong in the Product Showcase gallery.  However, for me personally, I feel that if an image rendered in Poser has been really heavily post worked, then I think those should be in the 2D or Mixed Medium gallery.

Something like Collage art could be either 2D or Mixed Medium IMHO.

Scanned images such as the pattern of your granny's quilt that you added a frame to in Photoshop I think would be considered "Mixed Medium".

It's not really a cut and dry type criteria.  If we aren't sure of something when we go through the gallery, we ask for the views of other staff as to whether it should be in the gallery it was posted, or moved to another one.

The number of programs you use to create your image is not a factor as to whether your image is ""Mixed Medium", because if that were the case most every image would need to be posted in Mixed Medium because not many just use one program IE: Poser to create their art. Some set up in Poser and render in Vue and then move to Photoshop etc. So 1 program or 10, it doesn't matter.

   I have to wonder where the line actually is. If you nitpick to infinity, you would have to say that darn near anything that's done in 3D is "mixed"...... how many use textures?... where did they come from?...... did that jacket that you bought or downloaded have texture that originated from a scan of some cloth? If a painting is finished with an airbrush, is it, now, mixed because the artist didn't use a brush?... Photography.... your negative is Fuji, but the paper is Kodak.... maybe it was retouched with an airbrush.... so, now it's a painting???.... I use Kodak film in a Nikon...Hmmm two different companies... aha! it MUST be mixed! Photoshop, Gimp, and Paintshop get used for making and modding mats, as well as creating backgrounds. I think, here, we're looking at "purist" definitions rather than reality
  Post processing is a legitimate "operation", and what is used should not be considered... if the main scene is created in Poser, then cleaned up in something else, then, to my mind, it's a Poser scene.
  If you follow the purist attitude, then everything you do, unless you create it from scratch, can be considered "mixed". Lou.

big tangents....I just don't see the need for "mixed gallery" that was my original point. but now that it has been mentioned i think if you set up in poser and render in vue...that's mixed medium, if you post work the hell out of your poser image....it's poser.  The differnces in render engines for different programs sometimes is night and day (although I just start from page 1 of the gallery and work my up without looking at categories, when I'm in a rush, I hit the anime stuff up, even bigger rush poser/anime....but it hasn't came to that in a long while.

mixed small and mixed large were full..;)

Someone could ask why is there a poser gallery, considering a lot in there are heavily postworked, with photograph backgrounds........... which is, dun dun dun, mixed medium no?

I post all of my work in the mixed medium gallery, mostly due to the fact I use several applications and methods to create art.  I assumed thats what it meant.

I wonder why any of this really matters.  Look at all the galleries listed...why do they have them?  Why do they have a Beginners gallery when most of the beginners jump right in and post in the Poser Gallery, or the Vue Gallery ,or the Bryce Gallery. etc.?

heck, I just look at everything in the galleries...see all sorts of interestin' stuff that way.