Iuvenis_Scriptor opened this issue on Jun 27, 2021 ยท 44 posts
primorge posted Tue, 06 July 2021 at 6:14 AM
I don't see anything being done with Superfly that would make me want to stop using Firefly either. I will concede that shadows looks better in Superfly though. And for environment rendering it's much better. PBR materials seem easier to set up. The grain doesn't really bother me because I generally post work a slight bit of film grain into most of my finished Firefly renders, and I've seen quite a few Blender and Poser renders using Cycles which have very little grain. I'm not really into making things look photorealistic in art though. I started using Poser because I got sick of painting shadows lol. As far as photorealism goes I came from a sculpture background and would hang out with meticulous Photorealist painters in the painting department, not a single one of them ever said to me "well your work doesn't look real" lol. For illustrative art I never wanted my work to be any more realistic than, say, the work of illustrator Richard Corben. I guess we will all have to either embrace PBR or find a suitable NPR alternative, which is totally doable. Or maybe a middle ground if that's possible... maybe further preview render options will come with future Poser versions that can make that another option. Poser developers shouldn't narrow options but expand them.