Quote - Every time somebody wants to discuss tactics to decrease fakeness, i.e. realism, a whole lot of "what is art" comes up.

Please go make a separate thread for the 10,347th discussion of "what is art". Note that since nothing in "art" has changed, I don't think such a thread adds anything to the several thousand posts one can find on the subject already.

On the other hand, I think we haven't had a serious discussion of realism tactics in about three years, and since then Poser has changed a lot. There was a "realism" thread that went on a very long time with face_off participating heavily, and I learned a ton from that thread. That is still an important thread, although it doesn't say anything about GC, IDL, modern understanding of SSS, and modern approaches to specularity. I say modern, and by that I mean what I discovered and published since then. Prior to that thread, there was practically nothing about the subject of "less fake". Outside the Poser community, these things were already well known and heavily in use long ago.

If you don't want to talk about how to remove fakeness, then just leave the thread.

 

I'm not really interested in reading this thread but I got to this post and just had to quote it. After I finished LOL'ing that is. ;-)

I love the directness in the above and I don't think the above sentiments could have possibly been better stated.

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