Brian, I'll tell you exactly what all of my instructors have told us in each and every class. Nothing is original anymore, all you do is borrow ideas and arrange them in a different way. Take a font for example, once the first one was built, the rest just revolved around that, looking different, but all boil down to the same basic concept. The same thing goes for Poser/3D art. Once the concept was laid, everything revolves around that. Sure there are unique characters, clothing, materials, etc, but it all "borrows" from something that came before that. When you think of how long the world has been in existance, it does make sense that nothing is technically "new" just different, changed, and unique in your own personal way. Basically I see all art as combining elements in an arangement that is unique to your thought pattern at the moment. That's just my way of looking at things though, I'm sure a lot of people will disagree with me on that, but hey, everyone has an opinion.

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