I'm sorry to hear you got an unfriendly response--I hope it wasn't from one of the editors. If you e-mail me your suggestions about rejection messages, I will make sure they are seen by the people who can actually change those things. (The editors can't change them--we don't have anything to do with the programming of the site.) Some people on our forum can get a little overenthusiastic in their defense of Epilogue, it's true. Those people exist everywhere, unfortunately--every site's got a few. Try not to let the views of some of our more vocal members influence your opinion of all our members--we are not all bad, I swear!

I really hope I haven't made it sound like everyone who doesn't like our site is some sort of loon bag. You're certainly entitled to your opinion! Chas, unless you were submitting fan art (we don't accept fan art), then someone probably messed up on the "copyright infringement" rejection. Could be they were looking at the wrong picture, clicking the wrong reject message, or simply not paying attention. If you got a copyright infringement rejection for an image that is your work, you can resubmit it. Sorry about that. Renderosity's running very slowly for me today, so I didn't get the chance to check out much of your gallery, but if you want to e-mail more images to me for further clarification, you're welcome to do that--or, if you want more advice, Epilogue has a Work In Progress forum. People there can often see things one might have missed, and help clarify the reasons for rejection.

Actually, speaking on behalf of Epilogue, I've got to say we'd absolutely LOVE it if more Renderosity artists would come and submit their work--yes, including their Poser work. Today, looking through the submitted art, there was about 60% non-digital art, 35% 2D digital art, and 5% sculpture. There was not a single Poser or other 3D software submission--not a one. There IS a reason 3D art is woefully underrepresented at Epilogue: very few 3D artists submit. We (the editors) have nothing against quality Poser art. The administrators mentioned in this thread, from what I can gather, seem to be our chat operators. These people are not editors, and have absolutely no say concerning what gets into Epilogue and what does not. If they have spoken to you this rudely, please send a transcript of the chat to me or to one of Epilogue's site admins (Chad Lockwood is the guy to talk to.) We will deal with that. Our chat ops should not be behaving like that, since "Poser art takes 2 seconds to create" is certainly not Epilogue's official policy. The quote about Poser and Bryce art having to be exceptional to be approved is, I'll admit, some rather unfortunate wording. It was intended to avoid the sort of amateurish work everyone's seen--work which really DOESN'T have a lot of effort put into it. That quote is a relic of what was once a much longer paragraph, which included some words about misuse of Photoshop tools, lined paper, and various other artistic blunders. I don't know what happened to the rest of it, but we DO have a much more up-to-date page in our FAQ section now, which explains what the "obvious use of digital tools" message was originally intended to mean. Having seen some absolutely amazing Poser work on Renderosity, as well as stunning work in other 3D programs, I can tell you with perfect honesty that I have nothing against 3D art, or Poser in particular. I've even written for Renderosity magazine twice, and been proud to have my articles displayed alongside those of Poser users. I strongly encourage the starter of this thread to get in touch with myself or Chad about the incident in the chat. Epilogue doesn't condone that sort of garbage in the least.

Yes, Renderosity has my permission to use my artwork from my art gallery for promotional use only