"i guess the saddest aspect to me is that we're the underground of the CG industry.  we're the ones who can and should be taking risks, doing interesting work.  we're the ones who should be trying wild ideas and bouncing them back and forth.  we're the equivalent of garage bands and ciphers in the parks, of underground zines and cafe shop comics, of small comedy shops and theatres..  but we're more commercially minded and less willing to take risks than Pixar, Disney, or Dreamworks. we get ideas from the mainstream, instead of being where the mainstream gets it's best ideas."

For the most part, I do agree with you, KobaltKween. The odfs and BagginsBills and KobaltKweens and LaurieAs are in the extreme minority... and typically, do not have a prominent place in the marketplace. There is a certain freedom in that, believe me.

I am in the marketplace, in a small way. I have a vision of creating realistic current fashion for the gamut of female humanoids populating Poser/Daz pose rooms. I'm talking tasteful, original fashion, not copies of Versace or Dior or Country Road or Guess: my own take on styles that women in the Western world actually wear. I guess it would be a consolidation of what I like the best of those styles. And I look at the MP and think: "would I be wasting my time?" Does it matter... if I have a vision? Perhaps start a line for Miki2 or Sydney and Alyson and have V4 people start clamouring for conversions?

Point being: I'm not that naive. What sells in the marketplace sells because that's what the market wants. People ask me: "Yeah, but what do you do with this once you've made it?" speaking of a clothing item or a morph on V4. That's actually a good question. What do people do with all this tart-wear? Dare I even ask this? I mean really? Is it really all meant to end up in the Rendo or Deviant-Art gallery?
Really?

Okay, sorry I asked.... but y'all must have suspected that the conversation was going to go there.

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Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehen
[it is clear that humans have contempt for that which they do not understand] 

Metaphor of Chooks