Tanglimara opened this issue on Mar 14, 2008 · 37 posts
FranOnTheEdge posted Sat, 15 March 2008 at 5:08 PM
Quote - I'd be interested to find out what other peoples reasons are for uploading their images on here. Is it to get feedback, converse with other artists, check out what other people are producing or just a way of getting satisfaction from looking at peoples work ... or whatever else. Tony :-)
I'd be interested to find out what other peoples reasons are for uploading their images on here. Is it to get feedback, converse with other artists, check out what other people are producing or just a way of getting satisfaction from looking at peoples work ... or whatever else.
I have a few reasons for uploading images here on Renderosity.
to get feedback from people whose opinions I value.
I also secretly hope for "Wow, that's just so great", even though when I see that I don't really value it. I like it, but don't set much store by it. Lol.
to learn from my own mistakes.
to have a record of my progress over the years.
I get that from the gallery, but I get even more from the forum, there I can get detailed feedback on what's not working as well as what is working, plus suggestions on how to fix problems and improve things.
But I also get ideas from other artists, and from the brainstorming atmosphere coalescing the maelstrom of sparking thoughts creating new ones and thus jump-starting my own neurons to join in.
It is very hard to create in a vacuum, and that's one thing that Renderosity's Bryce forum is not – thank goodness.
People's opinions, ideas and their own art work is often inspiring.
I would also say that it's so nice to see so many new names joining in as well as a few older ones returning.
I wasn't quite in on the ground floor, but I started with Bryce3D, can't remember when, (and Poser3D – but that stayed clunky for so long that I soon got frustrated with it). But as Bryce got better, I did too.
I joined R'osity in 2002, and didn't dare post an image to the galleries but did eventually post to the forum, where with the help and encouragement of more experienced artists I began to improve – and I'm glad that I did in the end begin posting to the galleries, because I now have a record of my progress from the "Oh dear" through the "well..." and the "Hmmm..." right up to the present day when I actually begin to quite like some of my recent stuff.
It's a journey that I made in the company of friends.
Measure
your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)