3Dsmacker opened this issue on Jul 27, 2007 · 64 posts
3Dsmacker posted Sat, 28 July 2007 at 3:28 PM
Well, I did not mean to touch off another round about what Rendo will and will not allow, but that has apparently happened because there are still alot of sensitive feelings.
As has been noted, Rendo is a business even if it does have some of the qualities of a community. Businesses set their TOS's for business reasons. In case some of you did not see what I posted elsewhere, I will repeat what I think is one of the reasons Rendo has tightened up. I think its because Rendo sees a strong possibly for 3D art going very mainstream in the not too distant future.
For a long time now, 3D art has been looked on as a very esoteric and recondite thing that could only be done by math-addled computer savants. Poser and DAZ have been successively simplifying the tools to the point that we are on the cusp of them being avaiable to anybody who has a modicum of computer literacy. With the coming retirement of the baby boom generation, there will shortly be a very large population of people like that out there with a lot of time on their hands. We may shortly be seeing the Jon Gnagy's www.tseymour.com/gnagy.html and Bob Ross' of 3D art arise. www.bobross.com/
I think Rendo wants to be part of that.