I do it for fun also, I don't expect to ever make a dime off computer graphics.  It's already cost me many thousands of dollars.  Like any community, the computer graphics world is segregated pretty strongly - there are elitists, and there are huge numbers of ordinary people that the elitists look down on.  There is no automatic connection between being an elitist, and actually being good at anything in particular.  

On the other hand .... I think there are a lot of levels of creativity, but I tentatively agree that I don't get too excited over an image that is composed entirely of:

• Canned character morph and materials
• Canned pose
• Canned props and clothing
• Canned lights
• Canned postwork filter

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