Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Unbelievable... Tell me this is a joke

Tisa opened this issue on Sep 21, 2002 ยท 116 posts


mateo_sancarlos posted Sat, 21 September 2002 at 4:21 PM

It brings into focus the major complaint that other graphic artists have about Poser users - that we are just software users, button pushers. If all the steps in the process are automatic, machine-generated, then where's the human element of creativity? Critics will say we just end up with endless series of images that are clones of each other, mass-produced. Same faces, same hair, same clothes, same temples, same poses, same swords, same dragons, same fairies ad nauseum. Personally I disagree with the anti-Poser snobbery. I think it can be a real tool towards some original and creative art, and the critics complaints don't have an artistic basis - just a dismissive attitude of elitism, segregation and exclusion because they feel insecure and threatened by anything new. They're stuck in the past with their pencils and smudged-up papers and other 17th century technology. They think everyone should be held down by the same burden, that art is only for the elite, superior supermen of esthetics.