This is what someone in DAZ starts off with when they set out to make a picture with a female model. There are some variations, but they all stem from the Victoria Generation 4 (more commonly called V4) model. Open in a new tab or window to see it all, but she's symmetrical if you don't feel like it
![[Image: BaseV4.jpg]](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b385/Ravrohan/BaseV4.jpg)
A lot of work goes into taking this, and making it into a picture like Chveya and hundreds upon hundreds of others do, including myself. This is not a simple matter, it does indeed take skill, a different set of skills than what another type of 3D artist may use when creating their own models from scratch.
It is very much our work, we may use a studio program which assists, and in the community buy, trade or give out props, texture mats etc, but much like a fashion designer, we take these separate pieces and endeavor to create something from our imagination. Once our model is finished, comes the work of a set designer and photographer, setting up just the right angle and working with the lighting to get just the effect desired. After this is done the artist then has the option of utilizing several filters to apply to the renders, and finally render them. Which can also take a lot of time in and of itself. Some artists then work in photoshop, GIMP, or whatever else floats their boat and does the postwork, adding extra effects, cleaning the image up or simply to work on the composition with something else. Some don't, others take their work and instead animate it.
Now, much if not all of this is the same as what someone could do with a program like 3DStudio Max to build the models from scratch, only in the case of a Daz/Poser user, they're not spending all that time creating it from scratch. They take a very early point in the creation process to begin from.
Art is art, and everything the artist does is their own work. This isn't plagiarized, and being jealous and petty over the artist taking a few hours as opposed to 30 is no reason to be rude and cast disparaging remarks. Her canvas was different, and no one asked what went into this. Unless someone here was a co creator of the original Poser/Daz studio programs, don't dictate what their purpose is, especially if you aren't using them. Those programs may have started off with that intent, but they became something else very quickly, as early as Generation 2 models.
Whats more, is that Daz Studio now supports and sets the groundwork for game developers, the current trend with most businesses, is to save time and money by taking something as a base, and building off it, rather than create everything from the dirt up.
This is all her work, and no one here has the right to say otherwise. She didn't claim to create everything from scratch, but has anyone bothered to find out what she has done?
A lot of work goes into taking this, and making it into a picture like Chveya and hundreds upon hundreds of others do, including myself. This is not a simple matter, it does indeed take skill, a different set of skills than what another type of 3D artist may use when creating their own models from scratch.
It is very much our work, we may use a studio program which assists, and in the community buy, trade or give out props, texture mats etc, but much like a fashion designer, we take these separate pieces and endeavor to create something from our imagination. Once our model is finished, comes the work of a set designer and photographer, setting up just the right angle and working with the lighting to get just the effect desired. After this is done the artist then has the option of utilizing several filters to apply to the renders, and finally render them. Which can also take a lot of time in and of itself. Some artists then work in photoshop, GIMP, or whatever else floats their boat and does the postwork, adding extra effects, cleaning the image up or simply to work on the composition with something else. Some don't, others take their work and instead animate it.
Now, much if not all of this is the same as what someone could do with a program like 3DStudio Max to build the models from scratch, only in the case of a Daz/Poser user, they're not spending all that time creating it from scratch. They take a very early point in the creation process to begin from.
Art is art, and everything the artist does is their own work. This isn't plagiarized, and being jealous and petty over the artist taking a few hours as opposed to 30 is no reason to be rude and cast disparaging remarks. Her canvas was different, and no one asked what went into this. Unless someone here was a co creator of the original Poser/Daz studio programs, don't dictate what their purpose is, especially if you aren't using them. Those programs may have started off with that intent, but they became something else very quickly, as early as Generation 2 models.
Whats more, is that Daz Studio now supports and sets the groundwork for game developers, the current trend with most businesses, is to save time and money by taking something as a base, and building off it, rather than create everything from the dirt up.
This is all her work, and no one here has the right to say otherwise. She didn't claim to create everything from scratch, but has anyone bothered to find out what she has done?
