Renderosity Newsletter, February 2002 **************************************** Our Sponsors : **** Alias Wavefront (http://www.aliaswavefront.com) **** Alias Wavefront introduces Learning Tools geared toward Maya users who are familiar with the Maya interface, and are comfortable with the navigation, surface creation, animation and rendering tools available in Maya version 4.0 and higher. Go here for all the details! **** Curious Labs (http://www.curiouslabs.com) **** Curious Labs presents Avatar Lab. Create custom avatars, bring them to life, and use them to explore and communicate with others in these online worlds. Your web avatar can even have your own face! Create a custom 3D head simply using a front and side photograph of anyone you choose. 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What do you mean by destructive? I'm a little muddled.

Ozgod, What are you talking about? Help me out here. :) Clint

In the TOS it says: Destructive commentary/communications (Trolling). Is there any example to demonstrate what is destructive commentary? I'm just confused... I don't quite understand how commentary can be destructive.

Ozgod, Thanks for clarifying. Lets see if I can do the same.. That means to keep your comments focused on the image rather than the person that is doing the image. Try and stay tactful with your critique of the image. Focus on giving the artist an opinion of the art itself such as lighting, pose, textures etc... Does that help? Clint

What about images that are designed to just be sexually provocative and serve no other purpose than to exploit the female body, genitals, and over-all being? What about those images?

Same holds true for them as well... Clint