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Wow! I love this thread.

I am not an artist, of any sort. Given pencil and paper, my best efforst rival those of a particularly untalented two year old.

But, give me a 3D program, a few textures, lots of coffee and half a night, and it's a different story! I am able to translate images in my head into 3D space. I have never been able to do that in a 2D medium...thus, I am no artist...in the traditional sense. 3D programs, specifically Poser and Cinema4D XL, allow me to express ideas in a way that was never available to me before. 3D allows me to visualize things in a way that has never been possible for me before.

I think that we are on the cusp of a new medium. IMO, the current state of this medium is rapidly evolving and 10 years from now...hell, five years from now...the artscape will be totally different from what it is today, and we will see posts from people complaining that "Holo-art" is bogus and lamenting the "good old days" when an artist really had to work by plotting vector points, lathing splines, and texturing polygons.

In short, I think that those who naysay artist expression from a 3D medium are only being dogmatic. And dogma is the condition that exists when learning has ceased and processes have stagnated into ritual without true meaning.

I don't care what anyone thinks. If I had had to use oil and brush, with my lack of "traditional" vision, talent, and training, I could never have created the attached image. But art or not, I enjoy looking at that image and marvel that I, who am barely able to scribble an outline on paper, created it! The act of creating that image brought me great pleasure. If anyone else likes it, that is pure gravy. If anyone doesn't like it, that is personal taste and I fail to understand why such a matter of personal taste should be a point of contention or insult.

My Two Pence,
Zaara
zaara@knology.net