BladeWolf opened this issue on Mar 04, 2002 ยท 120 posts
Markus_2000 posted Mon, 04 March 2002 at 2:32 PM
IMHO the biggest limitation of this medium as a form of "art" is that unless you are willing to become a modeller you simpy cannot fully express what's in your imagination. As a sketch artist I can visually recreate almost anything I can imagine. It's hard to justify expending long hours learning to "model" a helmet say when I can draw it in 20 minutes (and if it doesn't look right I can spend another 20 redesigning it). So instead I find a really good skin texture and mess with the dials to create a unique face, pose and pleasing (to me) bodyshape. That allows me to focus on the one area where I have the ability to freely express myself, namely the environment. Messing with magnets and scaling to get people's clothing to fit is a necessary evil and in a perfect world wouldn't be necessary at all. Hopefully that's the direction future editions of Poser will be taking (The Victoria 2 morphing clothing is a Godsend). I've seen beautiful pieces airbrushed on motorcycle gastanks but to require an artist to manufacture the motorcycle first would be a pain in the ass. Very few pieces of art are critiqued based on what clothes the models are wearing or not wearing. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. LOL Oh well I'm rambling. I love the nudes with the cool lighting and environments.many are really inspiring. Keep posting them. Mark