SNAKEY opened this issue on Aug 12, 2004 ยท 44 posts
SNAKEY posted Thu, 12 August 2004 at 12:42 AM
This post is not intended for anyone in particular just something general I wish to post as a pouring from my heart.
Critical evaluation of anyones post is not a crime. If you are honest, you always say what you feel is right. But critisism has a style to it, a subtle note with a word of encouragement.... you know... kinda the sweet pill maybe?? sugar coated ;).
Critic and Insults can not be equated and also at times when we make a critic someone IMs you and says something rude for having corrected or criticed them.... that means, they don't want to be criticed.... move on. There is no point in raking up the issue if they don't want to. I have in my personal experience here in the last 1 year received several IMS whenever I have made a critic remark... explaining to me what they were actually trying to do... most time it was just my bad observation or it turned out that my critic was good enough.
Honestly speaking, a work of art can never be critisiced. You can show one thing in 1000 diff ways and what the artist chooses to show you or how they show u is their choice of presentation. Critic like.... it would have been better if........ no, nothing could have been better if it had not come from the artists mind but yes, if there is an error in the presentation for lack of some technical information one must go ahead and correct it. no harm.
I had once posted an image probably titled... Remains of war..... A grenade, a spade in the sand...... it was during the time when several kids had lost their limbs etc. Anyway, I got a wonderful critic to it. A friend here mentioned to me that I had conceived it well but the scales were imperfect. Truth is, I was a bit pissed off and I imed this friend asking him/her to clarify. I had no clue what scale he/she was referring about.... I was new to 3d and bryce then. He ezplained to me in not so many words how if two objects if placed togather must have a scale comparison. I looked at my post again and it stank.....he/she was right. I don't think I corrected it, I let it be. It was a lesson well learnt and from that point onwards I was always conscious about scale. Other time was when I made a Poser and bryce combine work and had used additional lights in bryce. The overall composition turned out with shadows on the wrong side of the sun due to the extra lights used.... again someone corrected and i was like....geeeezzzzz..
So, the bottom line is.... Critics are a tool to learn, We all are on some level in the same ladder. some a bit high, some low some hanging in between. There is no harm in a point of view by someone even though critical but to be outrightly rude to leavel insults to a post in Gallary or to challenge someone rudely for a honest obervation of advise is undesirable.
RR is a very decent enough place, I presume we all are mature, so, please use your best communication skills to critic and not insult and be graceful enough to accept a honest critic.
Just a flowing thought.....:O))
Peace to all!!!
SNAKEY