XENOPHONZ opened this issue on Mar 15, 2007 · 55 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Fri, 16 March 2007 at 12:33 PM
Quote - Xenophonz: more postwork = more time. And when the machine is already tied up doing a massive render at 300dpi -which limits the output-, if money isn't that good, quite a few people are not going to postwork things too much, because they are already making little money on them as it it.
It's all a relative thing. To some, ten bucks is ten bucks (uh.....ten quid is ten quid?) -- spend part of a day or two churniing out 10 quickie covers -- and they've made $100. Which might be well worth it, depending upon someone's economic circumstances. As thefixer has indicated -- such an income might at least help to defray the cost of a Poser addiction..........
Plus there's the intangible thrill of seeing your work on a book cover. What value is that? I suppose that some people would do it for free. Or even pay the publisher to let them do it.
Quote - Having said that, basic adjustments should really take very little time to do, and should be done regardless. Then again, the publishing dates for the books say 2003 and 2004, and back then, what you're seeing on the covers wasn't that far away from the average image here.
No doubt of that. We all have to start somewhere. And lest someone say that that's a slam -- it's a reality. Nothing wrong with being a beginner. I strongly support and encourage beginners -- and weekend warriors. But I wouldn't suggest putting those beginning works up against those of pros.
Quote - What I would like to say here is that I think it is grossly unfair to put peoples images into this thread and call them bad.
Sometimes the artists hands are tied by the publisher in that they want the image done a certain way or in a certain style and believe me some of them can be "VERY" strict on what they want from the cover.
They will quite often give work to an artist based on that artists particular style too because that's what they want, it really is all about what "THEY" want!!I don't know who the work above belongs to but I don't think slagging them off in a public forum is fair, especially as none of us know the circumstances in which the images were made!
Personally, I have no more problem with 'slagging off' the presentation of a commercial product of this nature than I would have of criticising the latest direct-to-DVD indie-produced movie's intro. Regardless of the behind-the-scenes mechanations which produced such a result.
That's reminiscent of the threads that one sees from time to time complaining about negative comments placed on gallery images. IMO, that's a part of what comment fields are for. And that's also a part of what public forums dealing with the subject of Poser are for.