ShaaraMuse3D opened this issue on Aug 14, 2010 · 35 posts
ShaaraMuse3D posted Mon, 16 August 2010 at 7:06 AM
First of all apologies for throwing my frustration out all over the place...
This nervousness is entirely my own creation, since nobody else has even raised the issue before. When my wife wondered why I was so mad, and talked to her about it, she pointed out (and not for the first time) that I need to stop trying to control every little possible thing that could happen or could be wrong.
What I'd really like to do is to just relax and keep working on my art, like I've always been.
I have so many poser products, that have material from so many different sources. If I start going down this road, or if anyone else does that too, that mean I'd start to work with a belief I have to check all the sources made using a product I already bought. Some products don't even have all resources listed in the readme, so I would have to ask Renderosity for them, and then check them up, and so on. It would be a full time job to check up every little product and freebie I have. And I have collected thousands of them over the years.
The EULA of the product I'm purchasing HAS to be enough. If it's not, and someone has a problem with my little hobby game or art gallery, well.. then that's something I will have to deal with as it comes. I can't spend all my time pre-empting every possible source and license out there. That's not what they are made for. They are made to protect vendors, companies and end users from serious harm. If there's a minor risk in this, it's one I have to take in order to continue working with this stuff.
If I'm going to keep my sanity as an artist, I need to let this stuff go. These skins and hairs and then the custom character they are used on don't carry any real life resemblance to whatever sources that were used by the vendor to make them. Nothing obscene or bizarre or insulting was ever created.. And yes, I have considered contacting all sorts of different sources, but I don't think it's a road I want to start moving down on. Because it wouldn't end there... It would be all the other sources too.
My own art is not hardcore porn. Most of it is not even erotic at all. I make stories and art that sometimes have scenes with nudity and softcore love scenes, because it's a natural part of it. It's romance, it's love, it's beauty, and it's so far from whatever sources the vendor's products has it could be.
Thank you for listening.