Toast.

It never fails to astound me that people who conceit themselves artists would be so inhibited, prudish and authoritarian.  The role of art in society is to challenge prejudice and violate taboos.  Cultures where artists have failed to do this or where the culture has not tolerated such iconoclasm have not lasted long enough to make their mark on history, sunk beneath the weight of their own hypocrisy and ignorance.

The growing influence of capitalism in the art world is nothing short of toxic.  Rendered 3d art seems particularly prone to lowest-common-denominator capitalist commodification, probably because the medium requires an expensive initial outlay for the tools.  CGI artists and the flock of parasitical support services which follow them around like the beggars' army which followed the Crusaders, picking through the rubble in their wake (and roasting and eating the occasional Muslim who crossed their path), have become so accustomed to giving in to social propriety that almost no one even questions it any more.

I think the reason the priggish finger-waggling by 3d Universe burns my hairy ass so much is that so few artists seem to care that (a) they are being called pornographers for displaying the human body as it actually exists, and (b) among the small group of people who do object to being called pornographers, even fewer object to the unquestioned assumption that making porn is wrong or bad.  As someone who makes subversive, anti-authoritarian, post-modern, pornographic fetish art, I refuse to apologize for doing what I recognize as being both moral and a positive influence on the community.

"If the human body's obscene, complain to the manufacturer, not me." -- Larry Flynt