Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Concerns about the galleries. Small debat inside, be warned.

BladeWolf opened this issue on Mar 04, 2002 ยท 120 posts


ChuckEvans posted Tue, 05 March 2002 at 7:15 PM

More on the subject, thoughand this goes more in line with answering BladeWolfs original remark and the many exchanges afterwards. A good friend once told me (over and over) during the so-called hippy days that Everybodys gotta be somewhere and just because where they are isnt where I want to be I shouldnt find fault. Ive tried to live by that but still find myself finding fault with complete strangers who wear their baseball caps backwards or mount a spoiler/wing 4 feet high on the rear of their Honda Civic. I guess they think it looks good and dont care what others think. Yes, there is a lot of nudity in the Poser section. Some of it quite redundant, but it doesnt really bother me. I look, and despite the, perhaps, triteness of the artistic endeavor, I still find something to admire. Even if it is just another person trying a pinup pose, I sometimes marvel at how well the lighting was done or wonder how they did the pose so well. Its (currently) a (pretty) free and open forum. Freedom of speech is something tested over and over in this country. Im glad we still have it. So what if the majority of the work is nude (and perhaps redundant)? Id just say, Get over it. IF the majority of the people are sex-crazed teenagers, theyll either get tired of it or move on to what some would declare more artistic work. If the majority is deemed artless redundant pics, then I just guess thats the way the world (or at least the Poser section) isgrin. And just as I dont like organizations of overweight women trying to make me feel like I am a bigot for not preferring overweight women as much as I do slender women, I dont really care for a minority trying to complain and change what the majority currently seems to like and enjoy. As others have said, turn off the nudity switch. Certainly, making a separate room for clothed and unclothed Poser renders would seem to be a useless idea. IF the majority of viewed renders were nude, that very same audience would just frequent the unclothed gallery more often and the artists in the clothed section would realized an even smaller audience. As it currently is, I prefer looking at nudes more than other works. I suspect there are plenty of people like me as the viewings for nude images most often doubles or triples that of conventional works. But when I am scrolling through the gallery now, sometimes a conventional thumbnail grabs my attention and I take a look. As a side note, and because I take a curious interest in this (I have asked many people), I was surprised by the number of nude work done by females. And, more often than not, of a female subject. I was also surprised by the ages of people I met in here, thinking that many were in their 20s and artistic computer nerds (so to speakgrin). But, another surprise as it seems the average age must run much higher. (I add to that pool, BTW). So, Im not so sure how fair it is to classify these people with a phrase such as, teenage male testosterone. Anyway, had to say somethingdidnt want to be left out of the worlds longest threadgrin.