Apart from ShawnDriscoll & patzoriley I think you have all missed the point!

• I'm not saying art here is not art. (That would be silly)

• I'm not saying pin-ups are the only thing worth doing. (That would be silly)

• I'm not saying the quest for photo-realism is the only thing Rendo should be here for. (That would be silly)

 

I AM saying I thought there were more frequent cases of photorealistic art previously (photorealism being the hardest to achieve in my view; anyone can knock out a crap cartoon or collage and call it art; and if you think the poser gallery has precious few examples of basic V3 with no decent lighting, think again!). So if photorealism is dwindling then the artists must BE somewhere. And I was really looking for example places where they might BE. I'd have thought at least one person would've suggested Deviantart! There must be other communities I can google...

 

Anyway, I looked through 15 pages of the most recent Poser gallery, and only two items were really worth the mention for CG excellence in terms of realism (which in this case is what I'm after): Bagginsbill's Dreaming in 3d and Lorraine's Tachi. Both are excellent, but Lorraine's the only one of those two who posts regularly, and Tachi is her best work yet.

...which means there's precious little realism bounding about. Whereas a year or two ago there was surely more..?

Or perhaps I'm mistaken. Perhaps realism does come round in small doses, and those who achieve it tend to sublime off to Corporate jobs, as ShawnDriscoll suggests. Would be a shame.