Right, zigzag, art is the creative use of your imagination to make something that blah blah.

Imagine that you bought some real Barbie and Ken dolls, and you bought some period clothes for them, and you arranged them to look like a scene from Gone With the Wind. You didn't do anything like cut their heads off, or spill sheep urine on them, or spray paint them - you just set them up.

How many art galleries will show that? Zero. So while it is art, it is not gallery worthy art. How about in your neighborhood - would you display this for your neighbor? Probably not. How about for your Mom - would your Mom look at it? Yup. But that doesn't make it art.

Now do the same, but digitally. Still not gallery worthy is it? Same story.

Now go show your image to a true CG artist, perhaps one who actually WROTE HIS OWN PROGRAM as well as the content. You're not even on the same planet.

So when Poser users point to Avatar and stuff and say we're doing the same kind of art, you get LOL.

When people say something is or isn't "art" they do not mean that is is or isn't a depiction of some emotion or event. They mean it has to show some creativity that resulted in some extraordinary effort that most of the population could not reproduce. Argue all you want about the definition of art if you like. The reality is that most people demand some serious effort and skill involved before they call it art.

That's why some "artists" are not accepted as artists. For example, when somebody finds some old broken cans and bottles and glues them together - no matter how much they thought about what they were doing, no matter how long it took, the reality is an 8-year old could do just as well with no planning. It is not art in the popular sense.

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