Tomsde opened this issue on Aug 02, 2012 · 217 posts
Blackhearted posted Fri, 03 August 2012 at 10:14 AM
Quote - It is in some way tied to the site (renderosity, runtimedna, etc) and in some way to the software (Poser & DazStudio). For some reason i do not know (perhaps because the Poser 4 woman was too well suited for pin up renders?), Poser and its main content sites specialized in the Naked-Vicky-in-a-Temple genre. Other sites/software specialize in different things, too. For example Vue is used mainly for rendering landscapes. There are characters for Vue as well, but the main content market focuses on various kinds of dirt, stones and plants, and the reason for that is not that there are more plants and rocks on the planet than there are humans, they just specialize because they want to (or need to) excel at one thing instead of being a jack of all trades. If it were a universal rule that mankind wanted to see naked Vickies more than anything else, it should be common to every software and content market, but it is not; at turbosquid for example there are more male figures than female figures, and no particular lamenting of the vendors that the male figures do not sell well (at least not as far as i know).
^vue, worldbuilder, bryce, terragen, etc have always been landscape-oriented software, therefore its no big surprise that their communities are primarily populated with landscape renders.
for a more accurate representation, go look at deviantart: it is a MIXED-MEDIUM art site that focuses on no particular genre/medium and has everything from photography to sculpting to pixel art to 3D to writing. look at which photos, renders, illustrations and stories are the most viewed/commented.
turbosquid is not an accurate representation of anything other than mass copyright infringement.