odf posted at 9:56PM Fri, 06 August 2021 - #4424743

Sometimes I wonder were I'd be today if I had spent all that time developing Antonia to properly learn some more powerful 3d software and practice my sculpting and texturing. :-)

Actually, I do textures rather rarely. It's a thankless business. When you're done with one, you've already seen enough of the figure, or you need another one and you can start all over again.

Sculpting has also lost its glamour for me. With ZBrush, Blender and various other tools, any reasonably talented beginner can show off amazing things in no time. Youtube is full of them. Not to mention all the specialized sites, where you can find everything from the simplest flower pot to all possible and even impossible creatures. Some of it in amazing quality.

People with real talent hardly stand out. And all the special talents that were needed for sculpting years ago, or the required knowledge, are now considered more like ballast.

The chance that you - if you had focused less on Antonia - would have been lost in all the noise is pretty high. So at least you got a high score on Renderosity for the Antonia thread :)

Right now, I'd rather wrap my brain more around the depths of wxPython and why this stuff doesn't work the way I want it to :)

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