Or think it's a boring childish hobby?

I've been thinking about this cause not all women are nerdy stay at home girls. So, i wonder.  

Well, my 'hobby' generates more income than my 'hubby' does, so if he thought it was boring or childish, then i would have to say he has a screw loose =)

Just being honest !

It depends on the piece.  If he loves it, he'll tell the world, lol.  Otherwise, he's very indifferent.  All he knows or cares is that between prints and licensing, I'm able to pay a couple bills, LOL. 

She enjoys most of it. Once in a while I do make an image especially for her and she loves that. I'm not into all the scarcely clothed women clothes most Poser users seem to enjoy and I'm sure my wife would not enjoy that at all and she would classify it as a boring childish hobby if I would use Poser for that.

Quote - I've been thinking about this cause not all women are nerdy stay at home girls. So, i wonder.

Well, neither am I. Not all Poser users are. Life has way to much to offer to spent behind a screen all the time.

You know I'm thinking if any husband thought I was boring or childish, he wouldn't be my husband much longer lmao

My husband has always exhibited a total lack of interest (in the whole 10 years I've been playing with Poser)...lol.

Laurie

He's not interested in it and thinks the amount of money I spend is crazy. It's MY thing though. I'm a mother/wife who doesn't drink, smoke, party etc. I do THIS.

My missus hasn't the vaguest idea what I do with Poser or how I do it & isn't interested in finding out either.

My wife is pretty tolerant of most of my nutty hobbies. As far as my art, she enjoys pretty much all of it, although she's not above needling me a bit about some of my female figures that feature - ummm - large chests, shall we say.

Sometimes she just shakes her head, rolls her eyes, and goes back to her Soap Opera channel (like the time I had the blue mannequin/robot guy doing a sexy runway walk. It didn't help that the BeeGees' 'Stayin' Alive' was playing in the background...)

Hopefully, if I can learn enough about this Poser stuff to make a buck now and then, she'll like it even more. So will I :-D

I mainly animate so I ask my partner to do voices. She loves to do silly accents. Other than that, she only wonders when I'm going to make us rich by selling one of my animations to Hollywood.

No, she pretty much things it's crap, and she's right!

When my husband was alive he loved the stuff I did with Poser. He was pretty much my biggest fan. Then again he always supported my creative side, whether it brought in a few bucks or not. Even after six years I still miss him and his loving support.

Much like FlyByNight, my hubby is my biggest fan and is useless whenever I ask him if a render looks okay when done - he always loves it. He always dives in and supports me all the way through and at times would play around whatever software I am obsessed with. He's a great writer and we feed off each other creatively.

For the most part, yes.  Claire is a good critic and able to spot things I missed and suggest ideas for improvement.  She doesn't object to the nudes if there's a genuine reason, rather than gratuitous T&A.

Claire is also a member here and has posted some of her own work, plus a collaboration we both worked on, posted in both our galleries.

My wife likes some of the images.  She's been bugging me so much to try that I set up Poser 7  (since I've moved up to 8) on her laptop so she could play.

Within a day she was bugging me on specing out a new computer for her that could run it better.  I do believe I've created a monster.

I traded her for the new Poser....

My wife see the gamut from me (poor soul). It's 50/50 mostly. Though she does surprise me as to what she does like sometimes.

My husband mostly thinks it's a waste of time and I spend way too much time on it. But he does appreatiate some of my images. And he tries to help sometimes make suggestions. usually "hun, what do you think of this pose, ignore the textures i haven't started that." "Well the pose looks good but why is the guy white?" And he sits across the room and asks about all the little things that you see in the un rendered image that won't show in the render. He tries though.

My wife isn't much impressed, but if she's really bored, she'll watch me at work. Now the granddaugthers...they love it, but it's probably like dolls to them. Though they're still at the 'pretzel-people stage'...;)

My husband loves my art, doesn't understand it (he says) and is sometimes more then happy to add constructive criticism which I must say since he's a traditional art lover I always listen.  Don't always apply it but I definately listen :)

No, my wife and children call me a pervert!  Too bad!
DPH

Himself isn't into the whole pretty picture/art thing at all. However, he's very supportive and always wants to see a pic once it's finished. It can be a tad disheartening mind, as his appreciation is often quite underwhelming lol

Mine took a keen interest in it not long after we met.
Does her own stuff now, we have worked together on a couple of images.
And I always get her impressions and opinions on what I do.

Quote - No, my wife and children call me a pervert!  Too bad!
DPH

Gee, really?  

Yes! I even end up having to get up in the middle of the night in order to work and make my porn, so as not to have to suffer irritating comments wafting over my shoulder, and obscene raspberries aimed in my direction.
Even my remapping has to be done in private at times, because of the fact that when I test how a textures fits on a figure, around the breasts and thighs, is often misconstrued as porn.
Poor me, I'm SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooo misunderstood!
DPH

Quote - Yes! I even end up having to get up in the middle of the night in order to work and make my porn, so as not to have to suffer irritating comments wafting over my shoulder, and obscene raspberries aimed in my direction.
Even my remapping has to be done in private at times, because of the fact that when I test how a textures fits on a figure, around the breasts and thighs, is often misconstrued as porn.
Poor me, I'm SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooo misunderstood!
DPH

:lol:

Coppula eam se non posit acceptera jocularum!

Amen!!
dph

 Mine never takes a look, never even asks about it. To her, it's just something I waste much too much time with.

Mine simply says when I hint at possible income from this: "Show me the MONEY!" Not much to show at this point, but hope springs eternal... :rolleyes:

If I make the effort to show John a particular piece, he'll give it a half-hearted "nice"...otherwise, he only comments on how much money I spend on this hobby (which serves to justify how much money he spends on furniture and other household goods that we don't need). LOL

Most of the time, all I get from Mrs. Bob is "oh, playing with your ideal woman again?" - in fact I heard that once when I had casual James on screen, so I won't be asking her for constructive critcism any time soon. :rolleyes: Mind you, she handles a camera much better than I do, so I know her eyes work; but I think there's just a blind spot where Poser is concerned.

On the other hand, she liked Missing and Radioactive Cats (see my gallery), and she recently said "you haven't done one of your pictures recently, have you?" so I dunno. We have plenty of other things that we can do together, after all.

When I get busy into content creation, most of the time I'm looking at the figures in the default pose ... and time gets away from me.

This has resulted in my hubby standing in a T-pose whenever he needs to ask me something, which rapidly breaks my concentration and causes me to crack up.

 :lol:  That's hilarious!  

Yeah he's a trip LOL

As long as I keep up with the monthly bishonengram, my wife is pretty cool with it.

 In the main, my wife likes my art. But she does somehow regard it as "cheating", and says she would prefer me to get back into physical painting/drawing again. But I like the effects I can get in digital art, the lighting etc, that would take me months of trying to achieve in paint. Plus, there's no drying time, and also if I don't like a pose I can just repose it and render again, in a matter of minutes, something that would take hours if I was drawing it.

It's funny, cos I originally got Poser for the very reason it was invented in the first place: to act as a virtual 'life-model" for artists.

Well, I've been involved in Poser & DazStudio now going on 10 years.  As I am openly gay, and also married to my partner of 16 years, we see the whole 3D thing thru different eyes.  He thinks its an utter waste of time, and I run 3 brokerages, am a Daz Published Artist, sell at Rendo and other places.  I run Poserpedia, PoserAddicts, DigitalMales, Maleposerotica and soon a new female themed store.

Its been a VERY VERY difficult road, especially supporting male figures since Victoria/Aiko/Girl have the main focus in Poser artwork.  But I stuck by it, and I tried MANY times to get my husband interested in it.  But no real luck.  He hates computers, is a master hairstylist with a ton of creativity and NO hobbies that I know of.  

What really was odd was, 5 years ago I forced him to get his German Masters in Hairstyling (required to own a salon here & train new stylists), and because I believed in him -- I financed it.  It cost round about 10K (Euros) which I financed via .... poser.

When he got his "Meisterfriseur" certification, he opened his own shop, and told me that his "shop" was a "real job" and what I did was merely "playing".

That somewhat pissed me off,  considering he never thought about where the 10K (Euro) came from.  So I let him continue thinking his physical salon was "real" and my poser stuff was "playing".

3 years later after financially bailing him out of some serious financial issues, I gave up, and told him to close his shop.  Due to the financial economy and his management of it, it was closed shortly before its 3rd anniversary.  Now I am a very "nice" person, and do not throw his "real job" in his face....

Now he is at home, and is not allowed to work due to his filing bankruptcy, and I am still "playing" with poser and my shops.

I recently completely restructured PoserAddicts into a new store, and will integrate DigitalMales into it so I can eliminate one store, to make way for my new Female-Themed one to compete with MPE.  Still he views it all as a "game".

What really annoys me the most is not that I won't see any of the investment in the salon that went belly up, but that he keeps on badgering me to buy a new kitchen... from my "play-money".

And I refuse.... cause as he calls it... "play money" won't buy any real stuff...

Oh, and asking him to look at any of my 3D artwork or projects? I cannot get him to even look at it without a dumb comment, so I gave up long ago.

So I live in my own "play world" paying the electric bills, filling our fridge and freezer, gasoline, auto-insurance, inspections, with my play money.

Greetz from Germany
Antonio
ProFotograf

Hmmm ... if my hubby was that unsupportive he wouldn't be my hubby any more. 8-)

Antonio, that was one hell of a commentary.  I can just imagine what you didn't say here in this forum.  I only wish that my "hobby" was half as productive as yours...especially since I'm currently unemployed after the multi-billion dollar global consulting company that I worked at for five years went belly up.

My wife doesn't take much interest in what I produce using Poser. She occasionally makes a comment if she's passing the room; she thinks the fairies are too "grown up" (she prefers the ones in the "Flower Fairy" books) but the robots are acceptable. I pointed out that if I made the fairies like the ones in the books then I'd be posting pictures of children - and that is rather dangerous ground nowadays.

She does, however, recognise the fact that it "keeps me out of mischief", though Lord knows what mischief I could get up to nowadays, aged 70!

Playing with dolls, eh? Well, I blame my sister; she used to get me to help her cut out the paper dolls and their dresses from the newspapers (just after the war).

My hubby is extremely supportive of my hobby (as long as he gets enough attention and dinner), and he's always open to giving me constructive criticism or ideas.  He's helped me make some huge improvements with just a simple "why not do this instead".  And he's even given me a sub gallery on his photography website, bugging me regularly for my newest pieces, and registered a website for me to eventually build me a website.  Now if only I had the talent to go with all of the support.

He's talked a few times about giving it a try himself, especially after seeing some of the really great dragon models available.  Would be nice to be able to bounce technical details and ideas off him, that's for sure.

I agree with Deecey, Antonio. I think hubby needs a dose of reality. Perhaps his sense of contributing to the household as breadwinner (alpha-male position) has been undermined through a series of failures, but instead of conceding his inadequacy, he makes you the repository of the problem, where actually you've been his main support.
I admire (and yet wonder about) your willingness to stay with him... he must have some really good qualities, hun.
All the best with it... I'd be elated to be making a tenth of what you do. Maybe if I pulled the finger out and actually got Jamie for V4 up into your store... lol

Antonio, maybe he thinks your fridge is filled with "fake" food? lol.

He sounds even worse than my husband ;o). I feel for you...lol. At least mine never said anything one way or the other.

Laurie

I doubt my wife even knows I use Poser, been married for 32 years, happily separated for the last 30 :)