Forum: Vue


Subject: Is it just me or is the quality of artists slowly thinning out here at Renderosi

Tablesaw opened this issue on Feb 02, 2008 ยท 68 posts


thundering1 posted Mon, 04 February 2008 at 10:22 AM

Rendo is a site for "fun". People DO use it as their mode of viewing their portfolio, but for the most part, this is for fun.

There are both "less" and "more" experienced creators on the site. And no matter how subjective your eye, no one can argue the statement that there are both "better" and "worse" creations in the galleries - comes with the territory of being a site specifically as an outlet open to anyone of any level of experience or ability.

A site like, say, CGTalk is for more experienced folk who are more discerning, and their entire goal is to GET BETTER while presenting what they can do at the moment.

Do some crap images slip by the CGTalk folks? Yeah, but not much because of the atmosphere there - when you put an image up on THAT site you know it's being viewed by VERY experienced people in their fields - so you are more likely to spend much more time on concept and execution because you don't want to look like the kid with his pencil drawing of stick-figures to them.

I'm somewhere in between as far as my expectations in the gallery - there IS a marketplace for a good reason - people are MEANT to buy and USE the products (you'll note, CGTalk has NO marketplace like this - you are expected to MAKE all your assets). I EXPECT to see the products used, but there is something else I WANT to see...

The more experienced you become, the more YOU should be creating as far as assets and clothing and such. The concepts, compositions, and execution of ideas should become BETTER with experience.

While I expect someone to grow as a creator, there is NO denying that this site is mainly an outlet for "fun". Therefore, I can't gripe TOO much because some folks just want to tinker in some fun software when they get home at night, and have a moment to themselves to not think about work.