"Thus, you see few 'real women and men' and many bodacious babes and muscular gods." Umm... I don't know of too many babes who have large lips... Why don't poser modelers (not the ones in this forum obviously) pick up a SI Swimsuit Ed. or something similar and take a look at some truly beautiful women. The only girl I know of that has big puffy lips like that is Angelina Jolie... and to me, that detracts from the rest of her face (to which I give many points to her eyes :) ) and maybe, just maybe, Monica Belluci. By the way, is there any FAQ out there that can tell me what each face dial on Victoria 3's face morph pack does?

You see, now that's a bit nicer... even though it looks like she has slight puffs under her eyes, everything about her looks nice. By the way, Dizzie, I mispelled Teresa's name... oops. You should find Teresa by looking her up in the Marketplace's search engine pretty easily.

Please excuse my slight case of bi-polarism... it seems to be a strange side/added effect of having AHAADD... so if I seem fine one day, then I burst another... it's normal. :

I started doing art when I was young, around 5... atleast that's what my parents tell me. Between 10 and 16 I started to do more and more drawing art, but they were usually copies (duplicates of original pieces). Either way, around 18 I picked up the computer to start doing art in. I started off in some Macromedia art program (I think it was Macromedia.. it was an M that was half blue, half red for a logo). From there I went on to get Corel and then I found POV-Ray. I think I did some of my first 3d pieces in POV-Ray, then I got MORAY and did even more. Then I found Lightwave, hated it, and found Cinema which I loved. I've been using C4D for about 3 years now, and just now I picked up Poser. It is a strange jump for me. Unlike in Cinema where you'd have to build a person from nothing, Poser just gives you the person. Then there's this site which I found while trying to find something on how to make dynamic clothes work in Poser (and I have yet to figure out how), and now I've gotten to the guilty pleasure of downloading premade models... So I went from making 3d images from scratch (POV-Ray) to buying premade models and using them in "scenes". See where my problem is? eh..

"...why would anybody even care if what they do personally is art." Because in my life.. that's all I have to strive for. Being 22, living at home with my parents, having no car, no girlfriend, nothing... all I have is a tablet and hours on my hands... If I can't be someone in the material world, let me be someone in the digital world. That's why I want to be an artist, because I want to be someone.

heh... Dali rules.

I guess that is sorta what I feel as well, barb. It's like they said... using something to create that vision in your mind which in itself is art... but how can you complete your vision by using someone else's textures? For instance, there's this girl at work I'm trying to model, but no matter how hard I try, I can't model her... I want HER.. not Miasma, Alusenthia, Nia, Theresa, BlodWyn, or any other texture I've downloaded. And as much as I try to use any of those textures to accomplish what I originally saw, I can't, because it's just not her. And because I want it to be a surprise I can't exactly walk up to her and say "Can you give me an absolutely pallid expression so I can take a hi-res photograph of your face with a camera I don't own?" It's like just now, when I was trying to recreate a scene I saw in my effed up little head of mine... Poser is not all it seems to be. Why can't I get a girl to sit down like I want her to? Perhaps because I'm an idiot and the only thing I'm good for is getting pictures of nude girls I find online and remaking them into art pieces in a Photoshop that I don't even much own... or getting simple primitives in Cinema (again which I don't even own) and creating "works of art" to see if someone out there appreciates what I do. It is very rare for me to ever be happy with my work. My spider piece, which received the most compliments out of all my works is a piece I detested because I could not get rid of the stupid little cubes under its feet caused by a glitch in the reflection. My favorite piece "The Tear" has gotten absolutely NO comments.. but yet again, it's just a picture of a girl (whose picture was taken by some famous photographer somewhere, an image which is perhaps copyrighted), a wing, and a sword, Photoshoped to hell and back to make it look the way I wanted it to look. My art is horrid, and I'm not happy with it unless someone tells me it looks good. There, I spilt all my guts out to you people... :(

Thank you Ookami and Musicat. Out of all the responses, I believe yours hit truest. :) The professor of art's quote was gorgeous... and when Ookami said " but you're creating a unique piece based on some image in your mind's eye.... that's art"... that hit the spot. Thanks. :)

Wow, I didn't really imagine I'd get so many responses. Thanks for all your help. :)

Wow.. that's definitely her dress... although the top looks more like this one: http://market.renderosity.com/softgood.ez?ViewSoftgood=18876 The problem is that top is for Vicky2... :(

Where can I find the V3 Morphing Fantasy Dress? Is it at Daz?

Oh, and one more thing... how many times am I supposed to email Renderosity with the number on the back of my credit card? Each time I place an order? I bought something this morning, never got an email, but the download is showing in my purchases page but without the "download" button next to it... erg.

Coolies!!!! Thanks!!!!

I'm running Poser 5.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh... kay. :) :) Thanks a lot, and sorry about the whining earlier.