hornet3d opened this issue on May 16, 2015 ยท 532 posts
JoePublic posted Sat, 23 May 2015 at 4:47 AM
Personal attack: "Vendor X is a hack and an arsehole because I don't like his work. And I wouldn't be surprised if he smells funny, too."
NOT a personal attack: "Vendor X' work constantly shows fundamental flaws (Insert screenshots demonstrating those exact flaws here) so my logical conclusion is that he either is incapeable of delivering the type of quality I expect from a professional vendor or he just doesn't care."
For a few years I made a living constructing Master (prototype) scale models for a small company.
If you think I'm "harsh", you better never listen to a bunch of modellers "discussing" (=bashing) a newly released scale model of a tank or an airplane.
If your measurements are "off" by even a hundredth of an inch, if you forget a single rivet or screw head, if you put a weld line where it doesn't belong, if you get the angle of a fender cut-out wrong, then your fellow modellers will mercyless thrash your work and happily point out every single flaw publically unless you feel like rolling into a little ball and just die.
And guess what? Everyone of us professional modellers is grateful for it, because it is the only way to improvement.
This public "bashing" almost always leads to better, more accurate models. We don't try to whitewash flaws as "artistic freedom".
Scale modellers want more accuracy. Period.
Once you have that (almost) flawless accurate model, it's up to you to turn it into a "work of art".
And that exactly is what Poser needs:
Technically flawless, perfectly accurate avatars of the human shape.
Once we have this, it's up to the users to turn them into art.
THEN you can make them as perfect or imperfect looking as you want.
THEN you can turn them into Supermodels or Mr and Mrs Average.
But the mesh, the rigging, the morphs, all that technical stuff, MUST BE FLAWLESS.
That's what I expect and that's what I'd like others to expect, too.