structure posted at 9:48PM Wed, 10 June 2020 - #4391441

EClark1894 posted at 12:16AM Thu, 11 June 2020 - #4391273

EldritchCellar posted at 7:32AM Tue, 09 June 2020 - #4391270

I'd have to agree with Structure here. By the same token "is it (artistcally?) ethical" to use pre made content? Would be kind of silly to make a claim that it isn't if you're using Poser...

Depends... are you claiming that you made it all yourself... from scratch? If you're claiming that using anything pre-made is "unethical" then where do you stop? The program you didn't write from ground up, The computer, you didn't build from parts? What the about the parts you had to go buy to build the computer. You're also saying that anyone who created any painting that didn't make their own brushes and paint were "unethical".

following this logic, you should ask if using someone elses pre-made skin / character / clothing / lighting etc is ethical, you can't single out one aspect of poser and ask about it's morality without asking about the whole poser process. ethical means - relating to moral principles or the branch of knowledge dealing with these, so yes, it does actually mean is it right / wrong on a moral level.

So, in your mind it's perfectly okay to claim you did all the art yourself, including the posing, even if you didn't? Yeah, we have a different view of what's ethical, and what's not.