"Atlas" (2), March 1997 Created with Fractal Design Poser and Photoshop "The funny thing about digital art is that it makes a whole new range of things easy to do that look hard. Every photographer hates the lens flare(that little star thing you get when you photograph towards the sun) because non-photographers think it's really cool. It takes no talent to produce a regular lens flare, but non photographers don't know that. These two images are kind of the same way. They look hand-drawn, but they actually come from a 3-D modeling program for the human body. The program gives you the model, all you do is manipulate the camera, light, and body position. Images generated this way are easy to spot, they have a really cheesy look to them. I think being a digital artist means manipulating your source to produce something different, and ideally expressive. Both these images had the same feel to them when originally rendered, but I played with them in Photoshop to produce very different styles." -ID

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