drifterlee opened this issue on Nov 02, 2011 · 273 posts
wolf359 posted Thu, 03 November 2011 at 6:08 PM
"Adobe Photoshop comes with brushes, actions, filters, and a lot of things. I rarely, if ever, use them. I either create my own or purchase what I need that gives me a better result for my work. Now, are they to blame that their brushes (I believe they've been the same since at least version 7) aren't as good as the ones I've purchased? You can say "yes", but, frankly, I'd rather they focus on the software. I'm pretty sure the dev team at Adobe hire someone else to do the creatives so they can focus on the meat and bread of what they do.
The same for Poser.
Sorry but IMHO
Your Adobe Example makes my point for me
If corel painter or some other graphic program started to over take adobes marketshare after numerous complaints by adobe users about those tired boring "7 year old" "ugly brushes.
and then corel or whomever create some new proprietary "Super Ptex genesis brushes" that reguired you to use the latest version of painter to access.
now adobe loses even more market share to Corel.
it is indeed Adobe Fault for rolling out those same bland boring.ugly old brushes every release not the fault of some hypothetical third party programmer or in house guy who was contracted wrote the code for them.
You say "I would rather focus on the software"
Fine but what is poser without the figures?
From Smith Micro:"professional artists and production teams to add pre-rigged and fully textured 3D characters to their projects. With over 3GB of included content libraries and richly varied third party Poser content, Poser Pro 2012 is the perfect link between professional production tools and ready to use 3D character assets, saving development time and resources."
How can you read this ad copy from the official web site and not see that posers main claim to fame is its figure assets.( 3GB)
We can accept that poser rigs might not be acceptable to certain communities"(CG Society) and write it off as "Snobbery"
But when the mere mention of alyson& ryan HERE in poser community forums results in a near universal chorus of ridicule and derision then the fault is clearly at the feet Smith micro for not hiring better figure makers just as it would be adobe fault for not hiring more capable brush coders in your example.
Cheers