shedofjoy opened this issue on Nov 06, 2017 · 173 posts
false1 posted Tue, 21 November 2017 at 11:36 AM
I hear people often talk down on Poser/Daz users that won’t create or mod their own content. I’ve done it myself, but wonder if it’s a bit unfair. I know when I got back into Poser 5 years ago after being away since about version 4 I was greatly excited by the content to be found at the various marketplaces that didn’t exist before. The ability to leverage a vendor’s technical skill and visual sense for your own art is very satisfying.
After Posering for a year or so it became obvious that even with the content now available there still wasn’t a enough of the things I needed for my own vision and concepts. Those items that did exist quickly drained my wallet. I started learning to kit bash, retexture, model, etc. because I had little choice. The reality is that any clothing or props I make at this point will pale in comparison to what the top quality vendors are selling in the marketplace. My currently feeble attempts at content creation will sit in the galleries next to the works of Aeon Soul, Stonemason, and the like. Plus I’ll spend untold hours trying to create these items. It’s a tremendous disincentive that I only pursue out of absolute necessity and the belief that I’ll slowly improve.
I don’t think I’m unique in that regard. I’m guessing that most of the more technically proficient, content creating users started out as load, pose, renderers. Many of the marketplace dependent users of today will graduate towards being more capable in the future. I think Daz has brought in a lot of new users recently. It’s hard to tell who is a neophyte and who is an old hand just from their forum comments. It is and should be an ongoing process of technical and artistic growth.
That said, it seems that Poser should allow for new users to get in and create easily with the ability for more experienced users to advance according to skill and desire. It will be difficult to attract new users long enough for them to explore advanced tools if they can’t excited about their initial attempts at Poser based art.
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