fivecat opened this issue on Apr 28, 2008 · 149 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Fri, 09 May 2008 at 6:04 PM
Quote - She was angry because she usually likes to do that sort of thing in person :P
Most likely. 
Quote - Just because they moved to a more modern medium then clay or marble doesnt diminish their work in the least.
That depends upon who you talk to. Some have one opinion on the subject, while others have another opinion. As has been pointed out elsewhere: there are some "artistic traditionalists" who deny that anything which is done on a computer can be properly called "art". The reasoning being, I suppose, that it takes real talent to physically sculpt a statue or paint on canvas -- and to do it well. Whereas any otherwise-artistically-incompetent techno-geek can "master" a software program -- and then use it to produce something that they have the temerity to dare to call "art". Truly artistically gifted people can do it the old fashioned way, and without any artificially-generated help. The underlying thought being that physical sculptures and paintings derive from genuine artistic talent: and that CG creations derive from jumped-up technically-adept -- but artistically challenged -- PC game players.
BTW - I'm not saying that I agree with such reasoning. Don't misread me on that. But such reasoning does exist -- and it can be instructive to point such thinking out to some individuals who wish to classify the use of a certain software tool as automatically invalidating any "so-called art" that might happen to come out of it. Perhaps they will see the mirror; but then again: perhaps they'd rather ignore it.
On the other hand, I'll agree with the "traditionalists" this far: sure, a high-end program user might possess more technical skill than an average Poser user -- but technical skill is what he's demonstrating. In the PC / CG / 3D world -- I think that many people tend to confuse technical skill with artistic talent. In the same manner that some imaginative & grammatically correct typists are mistaken for writers. This is not to say that all top-end 3D software users are merely glorified techno-wannabe-artists. But some fair number of them are, IMO. And yet they pride themselves over something that they have no justification being proud about.......other than to show us all that they can push buttons on a screen better than anyone else can......while the software programmer does all of the real work. The difference being that the programmer doesn't usually refer to what he does as "art".
Quote - How many of the renders in our galleries can make that kind of claim, NVIATWAS or otherwise ?
I wouldn't know. Depending, of course, upon what the question is.
Top-end produced images can be every bit as hackneyed in their own way as any Poser image that's ever been produced. It's just that it requires more technical skill in order to produce a better-looking version of artistic junk.