Ok disclaimer: this post is not a pop at anyone or at any vendor.

( this has no reference to a post on another site)

 

I have been here for 7 years now and spent god knows how much on models.

But since poser 5. I really don’t think the standard of models has improved over the years. Ok there are the odd one or two out there that you look at and say wow. But on the whole it’s the same things over and over again.

To start with the market place.

Promo images, that are so dark you cannot see just what it is they are trying to sell.

Maybe they don’t want you to see.

Descriptions, if they are there at all are so vague you don’t know if it a model or poses or lights.

Then there’s the models themselves:

Some are so poor that I cannot see anyone wanting to pay good money for them, no matter how cheap they are.

A lot look like they are made out of square block with edges and corners so sharp they could be used in surgery.

Copies of other vendors work (generally cheaper but also a lot poorer)

Things for sale like a model of a light. Where there are lots of free model of lights out there that are much better.

Spaceship that have no visible doors, motorcycles that the rider could not put their feet down (maybe they have gyros on them)

Cars that when the doors open, the door pillars look about 1cm wide

 In general models of things where the modeller has not taken the time to do the homework or get reference photos (google is your friend) they think they know what it looks like so thats ok.

So I ask you the customers.

1. Are you happy with the standard of models out there?
2. Do you think that standard has kept pace with the progress of the rendering software?
3. Do you think there should be standards here at Rendo that models have to meet before they can go on sale?
4. Or are you happy with the way things are and there’s no point anyway as things will not change anyway

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