Sometimes an artist gets a fan base that respond to every image posted, reguardless of content. All this talk about Vikie in Bryce hovers with other issues... such as those renders where all the objects are merchant items.. a really long list of bought items.. just arranged in a scene... I often wonder what did the artist do except put objects here and there-even texture is done by someone else...the merchant. Vikie gown by... vikie eyelashes by... hair by... couch by... floor by...   I don't know what to think about this sort of stuff because then it becomes a question of purity in art. But it's the end result that is what really counts, and even then there's issues in that! But it looks nice :-)

I guess I'm a bit spoiled by such software that enables me to model my own original stuff--Bryce, SolidWorks, etc. Poser and such software is different. But newbies coming to Bryce, great!

In terms of the original subject matter of this thread, there seems to have been a gap in the quality of a lot of the artists here. I took some time last night to browse some old 2003 Bryce art and found a lot to admire. My response to the newbies coming in is not to dispare of the lack of high quality, instead to encourage them because some will fill in that gap. For every journey, there must be a beginning.