ronknights opened this issue on May 17, 2002 ยท 37 posts
Legume posted Sat, 18 May 2002 at 8:06 AM
Jungian archetypes aside, I see it as an extension of the pop culture imagery of artists like Frazetta and Vallejo. A few years back, some modelers here who like Frazetta-style fantasy work started creating swords and helmets and temples and gave them away for free. Then other fans of the sword/sorcery/fantasy genre of art/literature downloaded these freebies and started using them. This inevitably led to the modelers selling this popular stuff once the sites started up their stores, and by then the genre was so well entrenched here that the stores became inundated with the accoutrements needed to create even more naked Vickies in Temples. As for your image, Ron, when you decide to redo it, don't forget to make the breasts bigger, and give her a sword and magic helmet. Am I bashing the genre? No, not really. I think what many people are sick of is the preponderance of this genre in the gallery. Boris Vallejo, Frank Frazetta, these are masters of the genre...and there are very few fine artists who are successful at the sword & Sorcery genre. But Poser has made it possible for HUNDREDS of people all in the same place to be able to create images of this type. If we were all oil painters here, Boris and Frazetta would get lost in the crowd...and many people would never want to wade through thousands of oil paintings of naked women with helmets on the chance of finding that impressive Frazetta painting. Imagine if images of windmills in pastures was popular...wouldn't you get bored after the 5000th one?