tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1761974662843179065.post3758228028624401350..comments2023-10-04T05:50:00.145-07:00Comments on Erogenesis Art: Comics or Bust, waiting for Posererogenesishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01193533369657628432noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1761974662843179065.post-1450409851852313982015-09-10T10:33:23.102-07:002015-09-10T10:33:23.102-07:00Seconded. I almost want to beg you to be an Alpha ...Seconded. I almost want to beg you to be an Alpha tester. Even though you said she has issues. I am more than willing to take that bullet...as it were. :) So if you are ever looking please keep me in mind.<br /><br />-DPDigitalPantherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07559942904826717173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1761974662843179065.post-38818244824264569122015-08-29T14:56:40.014-07:002015-08-29T14:56:40.014-07:00Speaking of customizing, three of the girls in the...Speaking of customizing, three of the girls in the Disco Dragon have G2 and G3 hair, re-rigged in Poser, and the outside scene is a DS-exclusive prop pack I ported and tweaked into Poser. I customize, tweak, edit all the time, like I know you do. A lot of folks don't realize how much fun it is, it make the art even more special, and its really not that hard.erogenesishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01193533369657628432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1761974662843179065.post-31228473468400344862015-08-29T14:44:23.864-07:002015-08-29T14:44:23.864-07:00yeah I think part of me just wants to give PE up a...yeah I think part of me just wants to give PE up altogether because this figure circus sometimes has nothing to do with art at all. Both companies don't really seem concerned about the artist: SM not clocking onto growing trends and not polishing their software up, and DAZ just recklessly milking their customers off their money with no regard for interoperability and basically just sidelining their long-standing Poser investors. Both companies can fuck miles of off, but I'm giving Nerd3D the benefit of the doubt. Bottom line: I wanna make comics, and I've made a figure to help me with making comics. If my fans want it, I'll do my best but I'm not going to come with something half-assed, thus I wait for Poser 11. As for a DS version, you're right, DAZ can eat a platter full of kiss-my-ass souffle (along with some of those ass-kissing vendors), but the problem is that I do have friends that use DS, and I'd hate to let them down. Poser will get priority off course, especially since its my platform of choice.<br /><br />I don't like DAZ the company. DS is not a bad app (albeit badly designed) and lots of DS artists are good with it. But the company is an extortionist money-grubbing piece of shit. And its not that I'm bitter at their success, but they are successfully fucking up the world of CGI with their lego-blocks method of 'making art'. Sure, Poser started it, but DAZ evolved it into a monster. DS was made for prefab art. Just try customizing something in DS, its not easy, almost purposefully so. If you make something unique, DAZ will not be able to make money off it when someone asks "hey where can I buy that?". Poser was made for customizing, and I hope the guys over at SM realize this, which is why I'm ok with making PE fit V4 stuff... learn to customize! be unique! make an effort. Anything less is just DAZ catalog art! <br /><br />But DAZ are fucking it up. So many people think that all of the stuff I show in my renders was just bought from DAZ, even Lali herself including her expressions. That is such a fucking insult! DAZ makes people think that artists cannot make shit themselves. DAZ don't care, its a money-making machine, keeping the market for themselves, extorting anything that isn't DAZ. Its capitalism at its finest. I know for a fact that even CG Society artists suffer from this, and thus it puts a tremendous pressure on us artists to stand out from the catalog art and try to convince art fans that there are actually artists out there that actually do make an effort and make their own content, instead of getting it all from DAZ. And with content I don't just mean props. We're talking everything from clothing, to lighting sets to pose sets... to entire fucking scenes. They buy it, download it, load it, render it, post it and get praise for rendering stuff that is fucking identical to the images in a DAZ newsletter. DAZ are actually quite smart, they get people to do the advertising for them... <br /><br />I was once asked (bless the guy's soul but eesh) what pose set I used to make 'The Gentleman's Club'??? What the entire fuck man! I emailed him asking: "what is a pose set"? For a lot of folks all communication stops when I tell them that I made things myself, as if that is a dead end? and there are seriously folks out there that will tell me to my face that they're not interested in learning how to pose a hand and would rather just put down money to buy pose sets. That is disgusting IMO and its one of the main reasons I'll never sell a pose set. Getting credit for something they didn't make or even bothered to customize is just wrong.<br /><br />Anyway, let me go pose 100 figures MANUALLY! :)erogenesishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01193533369657628432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1761974662843179065.post-28200152867344580272015-08-29T13:45:17.878-07:002015-08-29T13:45:17.878-07:00This is going to sound conceited, as I know you...This is going to sound conceited, as I know you'd make bank on a D|S version of PE, but with all of our constant shit-talking on that company's business model, why would you want to even try to make a version for them? You and a handful of other developers are the few remaining talented individuals using that software, and everyone seems to think SM and Poser are down for the count. I've watched (and talked to) my favorite content creators (Mindvision-GDS, Awful Soul/Aery Soul/AlfaseeD/whatever, Stonemason, et. al.) and some had really harsh things to say about Poser and seem to care not at all that they've alienated a good portion of their customer base. What really cemented Daz3D's cancerous approach to business in my mind was when they started converting prop sets to the inherent Daz Studio format. Props! I mean, why is it such a big deal that a simple mesh with no weight mapping or rigging need be in their proprietary format? They are clearly attempting to block Poser at every pass.<br /><br />It's a tough call, but I seriously think PE should remain Poser native and fuck Daz3D in their greedy asses. I mean, Genesis 4 will probably be out tomorrow, right? Genesis 5 in Q1 of 2016? Seriously, it's all about their sales margin. They don't even let a figure get cold before they're cramming a new one down your throat with a base price of over $40 and that's not including all of its add-ons.<br /><br />Also, have you considered that this mesh supports V4 clothing only? Are you concerned with Daz customers bitching because it's wearing "antiquated" clothing? Perhaps Daz3D will reject it based on this; I mean, do they really want to sell a figure that uses clothing it doesn't even showcase anymore?<br /><br />At the end of the day, it's your figure and you can do what you want, but you know how I feel about the cancer that is Daz3D.Epochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00310624674752733538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1761974662843179065.post-54715605131073601182015-08-23T21:32:54.266-07:002015-08-23T21:32:54.266-07:00yeah WAY too long. Sorry for that! I've missed...yeah WAY too long. Sorry for that! I've missed the process and to be honest if Poser comes with a game changing figure (finally) I might suspend PE indefinitely and just push on with comics. its my first love!erogenesishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01193533369657628432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1761974662843179065.post-2674661282827347462015-08-23T21:31:32.183-07:002015-08-23T21:31:32.183-07:00Yeah tell me about it. I really wanted to help out...Yeah tell me about it. I really wanted to help out by putting PE on the market a.s.a.p but I cannot achieve what I want with the state Poser is in now. its not like Poser is entirely fucked up, its still a great app, but all the little bugs put together make it so hard to work with. its just not worth it to spend another half a year on a figure that might be able to be worked out faster with P11... I hope...<br /><br />On the bright side I do have a group of very adamant developers very eager to get going so if Poser doesn't deliver we might find a way round. I don't hope we have to go down that road though, my comics do have priority. But well get there!erogenesishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01193533369657628432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1761974662843179065.post-12057186074310258282015-08-23T21:24:02.160-07:002015-08-23T21:24:02.160-07:00Glad you're moving ahead on the comics. It...Glad you're moving ahead on the comics. It's been too long. Looking forward to them all!Stephen D. Sullivanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03113498534825448148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1761974662843179065.post-51316739008585948822015-08-23T13:19:25.950-07:002015-08-23T13:19:25.950-07:00It's a shame that the only holdup to PE's ...It's a shame that the only holdup to PE's release is the future release of Poser 11, which may or may not fix those crippling bugs that you describe. I was so looking forward to seeing it become available before the end of the year.Jethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02521436661255215474noreply@blogger.com