11/7/07

My photography professor in college, oh so many years ago now when we used film, told our class, "with skill you can take good photographs, but there is one essential secret to taking great photographs; take thousands of them; a few have to be great."

If the high-end applications cost $100.00 and had ultra-cheap (even free) content, there would be thousands of bad renders posted on the web produced by the big name programs. It is a staggering assumption (by expert or amateur) to think that just because people use expensive applications that they are great CG artists, or because someone uses Poser that he/she can't do great work. A great painter could probably produce masterpieces with a dog-hair brush and mud coloured with food dye.

I am just a hobbyist, and I can’t afford to feed and raise a dozen rendering applications. I have a full-time day job in health care and don’t have time to learn how to make my own models and other content. I like Poser, and I still haven’t learned a thousandth of what it can do. I haven’t done thousands of renders yet either, so I haven’t found a few good ones to post yet. I do have a lot of fun using the program though. I also enjoy seeing what others (from novice to pro) have learned to do, and seeing what most of the members of the forum have to say.

Humans have this wonderful capacity to take mundane things (clay, stone, pigmented lacquer, metal, wood, drums, voices, movements of the arms and legs, words, etc.) and create something aesthetic with these. We call that art. It would be truly inconceivable (and inhuman) if people did not find a way to use computers to create art.

 

LMK

Probably edited for spelling, grammer, punctuation, or typos.