Wow long thread (I didn't read it :) But I want to chime in. Based on my mood I will do one of the following:

1. Fall to the ground with my eyes rolling into the back of my head, this got me through grammar school.

2. Pull out a laptop and push a button and create a pre-formulated answer right there on the spot.

3. Tell them to do things that involve eating certain bodily cast off, or doing thing to themselves that is probably impossible.

I all seriousness I compare painting a room with a roller in twenty minutes or painting a mural with a smaller brush that might take days or weeks. In Poser there is a big grey area between pushing a button and using a lot of time, talent, experience and sometimes luck to create a render. At what point does it become art? At what point is it just pushing a button. Does an artist looking at a model constitute cheating like they are tracing? How can you call impressionism art then? What about sculpture using existing objects? So photography isn't an art because someone loaded a figure (a model) or prop (you get it) and pushed a button?

While they are pondering all this I THEN drop to the floor and let my eyes roll back into my head.

 

LukeA

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