DarkHound opened this issue on Oct 16, 1999 ยท 30 posts
astewart posted Mon, 18 October 1999 at 11:13 AM
Well..for myself personally, I like to render the artwork and the figures. I cannot model, I can't create my own clothes..I can't create my own props. so I have to use what is out there. Therefore, once I start to deviate even a little from the norm, I run into numerous problems. As long as I take a model of a poser woman, or man, and decide I want it to be more muscular, or taller..or shorter..and then try to conform clothes to that..and pose it..it becomes next to impossible to work with. That is the single most frustrating thing in Poser, to actually USE the clothes the way clothes shoudl eb use, and to use Conform to figure likewise. I think if the conform to figure for a piece of clothing, sees that part X,Y and Z are scaled etc. then the clothing should scale proportionately..but that doesn't happen. So, its a fact that modelling, posing, and rendering naked models, male or female..is easier. Also, there are numerous props, textures, hair etc. available for the female models. I simply can't find this variety for the male models..so whether I want to or not, I have to use the female models (since again I can't create my own meshes). Also, I import my posed Figures into Bryce to render. Have you ever checked how difficult it is to bring a figure with conformed clothing into Bryce?? So again..it is the ease with which the nude models can be rendered and manipulated. I'm sure if using clothing was easier, then people would use clothes more on their models. The second reason I believe, is that naked women interest us. They interest both men and women, more so than naked men :) Women look at htem sometimes to criticise smirk or to dream they look like that. Men view them because its..stimulating. Simple human nature and drives. The images I've done and posted, for the most part, involve clothed women, which is why I know how hard it is to clothed the figures :))