AmbientShade posted at 6:05 PM Sat, 4 March 2023 - #4457659

JoePublic posted at 2:58 PM Sat, 4 March 2023 - #4457639

I'm not bashing Superfly.

In a few short years, AI will have completly taken over 3D art, anyway.

Not too sure about that. A lot of folks collect content the same way people collect action figures, or dolls, or model cars. AI can't replace that. And with the explosion of 3D printing we can now print out our massive collection of 3D content to display on our real book shelves and mantles next to the action figures and model cars.

No, that's silly! That'll never be a thing!

(Hides box of Poser 6 CE behind his back he just bought on US ebay for $200 just to get that old MIKI content)

;-)

All the more a reason that we don't water down Poser's "soul" by trying to keep up with the Joneses.

That we keep Poser "personal" and welcoming. Photorealism is great, but needs a lot of dedication and training and discipline:

https://www.cgtrader.com/blog/portraits-of-the-21st-century-the-most-photorealistic-3d-renderings-of-human-beings

Make even the slightest mistake, and the Uncanny Valley will swallow you whole.

But this part of 3D will soon become obsolete by AI, I'm convinced:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCgl1NkENQI&t=9s

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Instead give people Figures with personality they can love, like Posette and Dork or Vicky 3.

Make them better, sure, no need anymore for bowling ball shoulders or intersecting limbs.

But keep them easy to modify and accessible, so people can make them "theirs" even without years of formal training.

I wish the heydays of Poser back, with a thriving community. Noone needed Z-Brush or a 3D painting suite to take part in the fun. Dr Geep built houses from Poser primitives and Wings 3D was almost like black magic.

Yes, even back then some were more professional than others, but the standards were still so low, that noone felt excluded.

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Anyway, it is what it is now.

Poser will go more and more "Pro" and leave the amateurs behind.

We'll see how that plays out.