[ SECRET POST #134 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #134 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[klytaemnestra.livejournal.com]

12. Definitely. I hate Poser art -- Poser, yeah that's the correct way to describe it. Especially because people using 3-D rendering programs still suck. It baffles me.

[lostremnant.livejournal.com]

I'm old enough to remember when computer graphic programs like Photoshop first came out and how a lot of established artists thought that digital art wasn't "real art" and that people using computer programs to draw were lazy and shouldn't be calling themselves artists.

Somehow I think that a lot of artists who swear by their graphics programs these days wouldn't agree with that assessment. And they would be right.

[klytaemnestra.livejournal.com]

I had this girl in one of my art classes always telling me how my digital art wasn't really art. Funny since I could actually draw and she was only an art student because she, and I quote 'couldn't do anything else.'

I'll admit I personally am more impressed by non-digital artists who produce flawless art, but digital art is hardly an easy thing to do. I pretty much do digital painting. Yes I might be able to go back and fix something, but you can do the same with paints.

However, running stuff through a 3-d rendering program seems like cheating and often looks terrible. Y!gallery is a nice example of this. There's so much 3-D stuff on there that looks so lifeless. There's no passion behind it. It's just ... there.

[lostremnant.livejournal.com]

Then that's the fault of the people using the program. I don't know it just seems to me that blaming a rendering program for bad art is like blaming a paintbrush for bad art. Rendering programs are just a tool as is a paintbrush. If a person doesn't know how to use a paintbrush or if they use a lousy quality one then they're likely to end up with something that doesn't look very good.

I'll admit though that if someone is trying to produce 3D art without having the slightest knowledge of producing 2D art then they probably aren't going to know what the hell they're doing. It's like people doing abstract art without having done any representational art first. If people are using a rendering program without having paid their dues so to speak then the results probably aren't going to be very good because you still have to know the basics. Otherwise it is as people complain just having the machine do it all and well that's what you end up with...a machine produced piece with no real soul in it.