Damn, when will these be available? I'l like to have the Pierrot one for sure

I published this article on my own website.. hope you enjoy it.. You can pretty much draw a line through the middle of the 3D elitists based on age. The younger the "artist" the more inclined to be prejudiced. It's like the High School Syndrome "Mine is better than yours, so there". (Of course, my high school syndrome analogy is a much diluted one of the hypothesis that all children are pack animals, but I digress). The ONE thing that they all miss is the whole POINT. Art is an expression of self in a given medium. A voice that communicates an idea from one person to another. Not everyone will "hear" the message, because the message was not intended for them. Others will be profoundly touched by it. The ones that loudly proclaim its not art because of "this program or that tool" are merely deaf to your voice, either by design or deliberation. I can also guarentee that anyone who espouses elitism on so basic a premise as "tools" have not studied art. And let me clarify that taking an "art" class does not mean they have studied art. A large portion of the people who have taken an art class seem to believe this gives them a licence to judge art, which merely proves MY point. If you must judge an image/illustration/painting/print and use the excuse of TOOLS to discount it, then surely you are deliberately deafening your ears to the message.

Unfortunately, until the providers of the packaged models start making models that are useful in professional illustration type work, you are going to continue to see this bias. I've repeatedly begged, groveled and cajoled here and at DAZ for models that can be used in the project I am working on. The main problem is, there just isn't much of a market for Vicky naked or nearly so in a temple holding a sword. I send out portfolios at the rate of about 10 a week. Any image I have sent as a QUERY for professional illustration contract have resulted in "The art is great but the subject is a little too T&A/Cheesecake for our target market". I have a stack of letters like that at least 2 feet high. Now the ones I have sent that feature Mike, clothed, tend to get a different response. It isn't the PROGRAM that is causing the negative responses, it is the GENRE and TYPE of images that are proliferating that have caused the negativtity. Addtionally, most of the gaming markets are HEAVILY slanted towards male characters. There isn't enough Mike stuff out there to feasably illustrate or produce a high quality game. Again and again I has begged for more Mike stuff and the general response is: Mike stuff doesn't sell. I can point to a huge reason that Mike stuff doesn't sell. It's because the modelers and artists HERE at Renderosity don't USE or VIEW Mike stuff. And the unfortunate result is that The commerical modelers and texturers have limited their products to items that are only posted here in the galleries. My last 3 commerical contracts were for male characters. The limited amount of Mike stuff is going to make it more and more difficult to get commerical contracts for the simple reason is that ALL THE MIKE STUFF has been used. Repeatedly. so how long will it be before those commerical contracts start to get fewer and further between because of a lack of variety? Pretty damn soon I can tell ya. If you want your art to be taken seriously, you'd better start demanding variety in clothing/props/characters that are saleable in illustration. Or take his advice and start modeling them yourself. My pair of pennies

Likes: 1)!!!Interface!!! 2)Full screen ability for cameras(as opposed to the 4 plane view) 3)Lights, I love the light lab 4) DTE 5)RAY SPRAY!!!!! Dislikes: 1) it doesn't import poser files. Its a hassle to do the object thing and then you have to reset the materials specular and diffusion or everything looks washed out. 2) No layers (I like the Vue layers) 3)Volume render takes too damn long. 4)Can't add moons/planets in the skylab. Additional suns would be nice too.

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I have the patch installed. yupyup. Um mebbe I'm using hte wrong bryce. I have it installed on two drives cause I didn't want to lose my presets when I had to reformat

Clay, I tried the Alt thing and it didn't work. Okay, hold the ALT key down and click the create icon? All I get is a tree. No presets.

Change the interface and color me gone. I've learned Vue. I'm much better at Bryce, but if they lose the interface, I'd just move on to another app.

Aww, I wasn't being snide. I thought that mebbe Pandromedia had a new partnership that I was unaware of.

Uh, why does the hotlinked Eovia word in the theme line go to Pandromeda?

It's not the aroma of the circiuitry, its the awful Don King hairstyle that's truly frightening.

Dale. you don't smoke? Blasphemy!

No music. Otherwise those annoying entities AKA children would be climbing me as well as the cats. Must watch Buffy as the adult larva do not like the scary stuff. Keeps them away. Go Me. Have noticed a disturbing trait in that the Xfiles(seasons 1-6 on DVD) seem to attract said small people. Remind self to make note on locating children repelent. Smoke. Lots. Beeg Ashtray. Um, or three. Music bad, Buffy Good. And Angel is right up there too. Same with Xfiles, except for that bit about attracting the child monsters. Where did they come from anyway? Oh wait, I remember the 80's and part of the 90's. Nevermind.

Furthermore, the "Special Offers" means special offers directly from Renderosity. Not from an unknown source.<< Nowhere on that document page does it specify that the "Special Offers" are from Renderosity only. The fact that it ISN'T specified means that any time in the future it COULD be from a sold mailing list. And quite frankly, the administration has made that type of "executive decision" in the recent past. You'll just have to forgive me for having a suspicious nature considering the less than sterling motives in the past.

I wonder how many people have suddenly moved to Guam or Zimbabwe? Incidentally, In My Opinion, the information is being collected so that the mailing list can be sold. If you didn't notice, there was a radio button to indicate whether or not you wanted to recieve "Special Offers". A targeted mailing list of valid names and addresses are a nice hunk of change. I think the last time I looked a targeted list goes for about 3-8 dollars a name for a ONE TIME MAILING. THe same list can be sold over and over again.