My only objection to the separate gallery is that I feel it tends toward balkanization. One could well have a NPW gallery for every application and then various other subsets. That, if anything I think, serves to foster discrimination and discourages seeing the whole richness and variety of what people are doing. Of course people could use tags to limit their viewing but perhaps to a lesser degree. If you want NPW to be considered a 1st class citizen then keep it out there with everything else.

I was unaware that NPW was denigrated. There may be many reasons for such an attitude. Perhaps touting NPW is seen as arrogance, or the work of a technician as opposed to an 'artist,' or simply something that breaks the traditional norms. A good work is a good work, but anyone who knows even a tiny bit about the history of art knows that conflicts over technique, subject matter, style etc. are par for the course.

There's nothing with liniting yourself to a subset of the available tools. Sometimes self-imposed limits can lead to great things. Not everyone is going to understand that. It does perhaps leve one open to the criticism that one cares more about technology than art. The best rebyuttal to that is to make great art. IMO, if you emphasize NPW too much, then that is what people are going to concentrate on. Let them be moved by the work first and then look at the production methods. That is, of course, if art is the ultimate aim and not 'look what Poser can do.' The two are not mutually exclusive, but it is  probably true that the emphasis matters - whether to the creator or to the viewer.

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