Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=529752

I'll never understand what gets some people so upset at things. I posted a Halloween image that I composed in Poser and provided credits for the figures I could remember and will post a follow-up comment to credit the other 3D objects in the image in a day or so when I have time to look up the original zips I pulled them from. Somebody, who liked the thumbnail enough to open the image, posted a nasty comment that it doesn't contain enough original models and gave it the lowest rating possible. I'll readily admit (and will provide all the credits) that I've pulled together a bunch of existing models to create the images, but I still put in over a half dozen hours composing the image, posing the models, providing expressions, and playing with lighting to get the effect I wanted. The end result of the image is exclusively mine. Give the same set of characters and props to a hundred other people and they'll each achieve a different result, some better than mine and some not. I looked at the poster's gallery and it's mostly a hodgepodge of original models that are rendered without much creative intent. There's some talent in the building of the models, but there's only so much time I want to spend looking at a well-designed wheel. Eventually, I want to get into modeling, but right now I'm more interested in producing artwork with the models I have. If every artist only used models they created, there probably wouldn't be a Renderosity, to show off our images, since the gallery is probably to some degree financed by the Marketplace. To me, it's a matter of how a person uses the tools available to them. If DAZ has already put in hundreds of hours to create a human model, there's little reason for me to do the same unless I want the model to do something that the DAZ model cannot. I'm not going to claim that I've created the best image in the world, but I think it turned out nicely. It was at least good enough to get this individual to look at the image, based on the thumbnail. The fact that I labelled it a Poser image is a good indication that it's not all 100% brand new models. Who can ever figure out why somebody would consider that a negative trait of the drawing?

My visual indexes of Poser content are at http://www.sharecg.com/pf/rgagnon