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You ask a good question. The opening page to the family site has an oil my sister did, a lightening shot she took, and a bryce/poser image of mine. I think the CG folks who can do other media, such as oils and graphite, etc, are artists inside and merely look at CG programs as just another media. Those who cannot use anything but a computer are, in my humble opinion, people who may some day become artists. Take a look at the girl sitting by the tree at night. That's the low res vickie imported into Bryce with the Aged Film photoshop filter. Some have said "Now that's art". That said, my sister and I are having a disagreement about the family site. She feels that the folks who are interested in fine art might be put off by my CG stuff. Granted, some of my stuff is cheesy, some is not. (note to self... clean out the cheesy stuff). So the phrase 'fine art' has popped up to differentiate between the traditional media and the computer art in our conversations. I don't dispute that. I do view oil, bronze, graphite, etc as fine art and photos and 3d as something else. Will CG ever reach the status of fine art? I doubt it for one reason, its not one of a kind. There's only one oil, one portrait, etc. Reproduction attempts are always different. Bronze work tends to be more mass production and fine artists tend to control this by limiting the number of sculptures that are made before destryoing a mold. When it comes to CG, print to your heart's content. Yeah, there is a difference and no matter how nice the image looks, CG in my opinion will RARELY ever rise to the level of art in terms of how the world views art. Then again, these days, just about anything passes for art to the untrained eye or the idiot who really has no clue what they are buying or looking at.