DHolman opened this issue on Jan 17, 2000 ยท 24 posts
DHolman posted Tue, 18 January 2000 at 2:55 AM
(sorry about the delay between this and the 1st half of the post..at work and had an emergency call) As for all this being good for the poser community and making us better..how? Maybe it's just me, but I look around and I think we've lost something. I remember a time when the really great artists and "technicians" (for want of a better word) like Hafeli, Anson, Anton posted daily -- sometimes it seemed like those guys never slept. Now many of these guys have walked off in disgust. People used to say "Whoa..that's incredible...how did you do that?" Now, looking at the message bases on both forums, it's more often "Whoa..that's incredible...when are you going to upload it?" Somebody will work days and weeks on a character and picture and usually the 2nd comment that's made is something like "And those boots are cool, can I have them?" Don't get me wrong - guys like Traveler, Yamato and Kozaburo are freaking poser geniuses. But they don't really make you work for it. When Hafeli started really getting into realistic rendering in Poser, he would tell you how he did it but wouldn't upload for you to just take and copy. That made people think and experiment. And that is what gives us real change. Now, it seems like there are only a small handful of innovators (count the number of Nene or slightly changed Nene pictures floating around the net). I don't know, maybe I'm just rambling. Could by like looking back on your days as a kid and wishing you could go back. Sometimes you outgrow places or the places outgrow you. And no, this isn't a goodbye...maybe I'll just keep watching from the background again and continue quietly practicing. Be well. -=>Donald