Its done first week 2004-01-30 - By Chris Kufahl
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I worded my point bad. I probably should have started a new paragraph for
it too. My point wasn't that they make better images, but the process of
making the images is much better. IE, it's easier on the artist, and
allows them more creativity to make what they want, which, I believe,
results in a better image because you're better able to express yourself.
Looking back though, my "a great tS artist couldn't hold a candle to a
great LW artist" was pretty stupid.
You Said: Look, like I said above, it's great you have a program that works
well
for you (since, after all, it's the final image that counts and not what
you use to get to it) but I hardly feel you're the perfect person to
comment on Truespace falling short. Lightwave is a good application,
that's true, but Truespace is no slouch.
Well, true, the end image is all that counts, but to go along with my above
remarks, if you have to fight an application instead of work with one,
you're going to produce more images that are closer to what you wanted in
the first place. Also, my opinion of tS is that it is way too buggy, which
limits effeciency, and the new tools seem to have always been half baked
and dodgy. I mean really, if I have to replace SDS (nurbs in tS4) with an
outside plugin, that isn't saying much of the original tool. Also, D3D
seemed to act funky within tS as opposed to other applications that use it
(in 4, and demos of 5&6). That might not be tS's problem, but it seems
pretty odd that it would only be tS that doesn't seem to handle it
properly. Not to mention crashes in general, tS seems to hang/crash quite
a bit, whereas none of the other applications I use regularly crash that
often. PS hasn't crashed on me that I can remember, Illustrator hasn't
crashed that I can remember, Macromedia Studio MX (any of the apps
included) hasn't crashed on me yet, and LW has on a few (maybe 3) occasions.
As for your other post asking for a link to a gallery, check out Newtek's
own: http://www.newtek.com/products/lightwave/lw-gallery/index.php?cat=2
It's got all sorts of galleries, TV, environments, industrial design, film,
sci fi and a bunch more.
It is so tempting to interject "It's a poor tradesman who blames his tools"
into this that I think I will. ^_^
And it's a poor toolmaker that makes defective tools. Or a poor tradesman
who used the wrong tools? I don't know.
-chris
At 10:26 AM 1/30/2004, you wrote:
>It's great to hear you haven't regretted your choice, but picking on the
>TS gallery doesn't do much for your case, since the winning (and quite
>excellent) image was done in TS4. And btw, this is a complete load of
>baloney,
>
>"...take two equally skilled artists and the one with the better tools
>will always prevail."
>
>Where did you come up with this wonderous statistic? Mind telling me
>how two artists can be 'equally skilled', to the point where using the
>same application they produce works that are just as 'good', in the
>minds of everyone (every time)? You know of two people like this? If
>you do, you'll have to introduce me to your two invisible artistic
>friends. With a comment like this, you're trying just a little *too*
>hard to prove your point. Lightwave is a well known application, and it
>attracts some very good, high-level artists. I bet it has amazing
>galleries, since most guys just starting out in rendering can't afford
>the jolly thing. They can afford TS however, so the galleries tend to
>be a little... less impressive, with works from all across the board.
>Did you think of that?
>
>Look, like I said above, it's great you have a program that works well
>for you (since, after all, it's the final image that counts and not what
>you use to get to it) but I hardly feel you're the perfect person to
>comment on Truespace falling short. Lightwave is a good application,
>that's true, but Truespace is no slouch.
>
>-Joel
>
>Chris Kufahl wrote:
>
>>Yeah, but there's something to be said of the fact that I tried tS 5 and
>>tS6 demos and still blindly went with LW, and haven't regretted my
>>choice. I have also yet to see conclusive proof that I was wrong in my
>>choice in turning to LW instead of upgrading tS. Look at the monthly tS
>>galleries as opposed to some LW galleries. Either Roman is picking some
>>really bad images (which I believe to be the case), or well, no, he's
>>picking really bad images, but I still don't think a great tS artist could
>>hold a candle to a great LW artist. Yes, it's the artist, not the tools,
>>but take two equally skilled artists and the one with the better tools will
>>always prevail.
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