Ghastly opened this issue on Oct 09, 2002 ยท 21 posts
jval posted Wed, 09 October 2002 at 3:42 PM
I'm not sure that the term "mixed media" would apply as the entire work remains digital. Mixed media generally refers to works created through several disciplines such as photographs mixed with oils mixed with fibre work mixed with digital, etc, etc. If you mean work created with a single program I think that might be difficult. For instance, many people use models created by Phil C who I believe uses Truespace for his models. Would an image incorporating his products as a central piece then be rightly displayed in the Truespace gallery rather than Poser's? Often such a decision can only be left to the artist. Assume I use a fractal image as a height field to create a Bryce terrain. I also use it as a texture map for said terrain and then use photoshop to adjust levels to the resultant Bryce rendering thereby emphasizing the colours and textures I consider important. Which of the three categories should claim the final work? Well, if I as artist think of it as a fractal that's where it belongs. If I think of it as a Bryce creation then so it shall be. Surely none shall know my intent as well as I? A piece should probably be placed in the program category that dominates the image (and that cannot always be determined by content percentage.) If a Poser figure is used as merely an incidental prop in a Bryce piece then put it in the Bryce gallery. If the Poser figure is the whole reason behind the image then it should be placed in the Poser gallery, regardless of how much Bryce or Vue or Photoshop may have been used. Many people are particularly interested in a specific program and wish to see what others are doing with that program or merely desire to see what is possible. It follows that categorizing imagery by program is not such a bad idea. The alternative is that almost everything will be dumped together in a mixed program category and that could prove very unwieldly. - Jack