zippy opened this issue on May 26, 2007 · 51 posts
FranOnTheEdge posted Sat, 16 June 2007 at 4:51 PM
Quote - > Quote - Well we buy what we feel we need - when we can afford it.
I buy things when I don't need them and can't afford them...which is exactly how I got started making models, and I'm still paying for it all. If I could go back again I would never buy Poser or take up modelling. It's really only for the rich. I am quite happy now making card models and writing, both of which are very cheap hobbies. Writing is the cheapest because it is virtually free for anyone with a basic computer and internet connection. Words can create images in the mind that art could never achieve and every picture would be different to each person.
Well as I just don't have the money in the first place, for me "can't afford" simply means "do not have" - and has done for some time, in fact when I wanted to start modelling Poser was just for people only, nothing else at all, and very hard to use,.
I've still got (somewhere) the free version of Poser (3 I think) that came free with a magazine - almost impossible to manage!
So I turned to Wings3d which was then free - and still is - and to my utter amazement I could actually use it. So I've used it ever since.
P.S. I too write, now and then.
Measure
your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)