3D work by folks like stonemason screams "Stefan made me!!!!!!!", regardless of whose image it appears in -- and regardless of whether it's credited or not.  Or at least it does to anyone who isn't completely new at this game.

As in many other things, I prefer to leave the option as to whether to credit or not to credit entirely up to the individual user.  When it comes to Poser items, crediting is a fine courtesy, and I'm personally inclined to do it -- but it isn't a requirement.  To cover all credits, I'd have to credit DAZ and/or Smith Micro in every image that I made.

With high end 3D apps, it's clearly a different standard involved.  I wouldn't think of sticking V4 in a scene, renderiing it up in Lightwave, and then posting the image at CG Society or on Newtek's boards.......except perhaps in an archviz image, where the human figures were providing nothing but background filler.  And then I'd be dead certain to point out where the human "filler" came from.

However, if the work is being done for purely commercial purposes -- then that's a different standard, too.  Most commercial clients couldn't care less whether or not the work was 100% your own, so long as you didn't use anything that you didn't have a commercial license to use.  In my observation, the majority of commercial clients are a lot more concerned about meeting deadlines than they are about artistic purity.  In fact: the quicker, the better.  Pre-made content can often be the necessary time solution in such situations.

But in the galleries here -- especially when we are talking about pure hobbyist's work -- I say leave the choice over whether to credit or not to credit up to the individual.  In such a case: I won't apply my personal rules to them.

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