Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Opinion needed on character

dasquid opened this issue on May 23, 2020 ยท 55 posts


EldritchCellar posted Wed, 27 May 2020 at 9:18 PM

Ok. Subject seems cold to the touch now but ok.

Changing the hair helped quite a bit.

My advice would be to stay away from erotic situations with the character and avoid overt nudity, if the work is for public consumption. I guess? Nothing new to add on that.

Because she is a semi realistic looking character (and I don't care what fancy shaders or rendering you use, poser and daz figures look semi realistic at the very best, anyone that thinks otherwise needs to stop looking at poser characters so much. In fact a lot of the things I see now look worse because now they look more like glassy eyed creepy skin covered mannikins rather than artistic illustrations. End of mini rant) it's easy to cross the line into dangerous perversity. If you had made an anime toon character with ridiculous anatomical attributes this discussion wouldn't even be necessary, regardless of how stylistically child-like the face looked. It's just the bizarre nature of this very small corner of the art world.

Funny Story. When I was near graduating art college and had just gotten into Poser I had a critical theory class that focused on the grotesque and subjects like abjection and simulacra. For a final paper I thought that I'd present an analysis on the subculture of Poser Art, it seemed too perfect and quite novel. No one in my class had even heard of Poser. So much Poser/Daz Studio Art is unintentionally bizarre or grotesque or kitsch (mostly kitsch) that I finally decided that the subject was too big to encapsulate succinctly in a relatively short essay. But I would have had some really good slides! Anyway, I chose to write instead about the art of a renowned California ceramicist, Robert Arneson, and the work he produced in his final years when dying of cancer.

All of this might sound like Poser bashing but that's not the case... I really love the program and the peculiar subculture.

But that's another story.

Anyway. Just some conversational thoughts while a test render cooks. Wouldn't mind seeing your story "in the flesh" as it were. Good luck.



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