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Subject: Re: Is it Art?
by Masterchief on 2008/9/13 8:46:35
OK I have stood in the background and listened long enough, I would really like to understand why someone can say that a piece of canvas that some Hippie high on crack and fruitloops has thrown paint and ink on can be called art, but something that we, as 3D artist, have spent numerous hours on manipulating envirnments and characters to make a scene that can be understood is called shit?
Don't get me wrong I have seen some really fucked up 3D art and when I was starting out I made some of it. Now I can see where you need to do more than throw things together and hit the render button.
Guys like Collero who make a render and then cover do a complete covering of the render so that it looks almost real, are awesome, BUT they are still 3D artist. Guys like Bio have taken a basic render of a figure and turned them into very impressive manipulations, but it still has a 3D base.
Art is in the eye of the viewer and for some of you to say that 3D does not qualify as art are dilluted and high on your own abilities to draw and paint. It is an elitist attitude that I find to be bordering on ignorance. So 3D artist have chosen to use a program that has prebuilt characters and props, we still import them into the scene and manipulate the outcome to produce an image that is either pleasing to the viewer or possibly in some cases utterly discusting to others. I do Fetish renders, which to some is considered to be borderline porn. Some people understand what I do and enjoy what I produce, others don't. Do I find ways to tell those that don't understand my work that they are stupid or wrong? No, I take it that they either do not understand the concept or idea behind my work and I move on. Most fetish artists, such as I consider myself to be, are eclectic individuals that for the most part are looked at as repribates and twisted when we dress a model up in latex and tie her to a frame with ropes or chains. So I am doublely damned for the art I produce. I guess what I am trying to say and being long winded about it is this, wether you agree with it or not 3D IS art. We have just chosen a different media then you have, so either accept that or you can continue to pull excuses out of your ass as to why we are not artist. Your choice.
Let the flaming begin with me!   
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