What genuinely amazes me is how 'Photoshopish' can be intended to infer 'Amateurish'.

Last I checked, Photoshop was the 'Industry Standard'...which means if you don't have it mastered you are unlikely to be employed within the industry [digital imaging].

This apparent discrimination between one 3D 'style' and another is purely personal opinion....and the real determination of the 'style's' popular acceptance is not the number of people adopting it in their work as much as the number of people who truly appreciate the outcome.

As for 'arrogance' of self-worth.....that is professional suicide....trust me, I've been a Professional for over 30 years.

'Blowing your own horn' is otherwise known as 'auto-fellatio'....

No actual skinner within [or without] this community has ever attained fame and popularity through arrogance, and none ever will.

Those who attempt to consider themselves somehow superior are doomed to enjoy a lonely existence in their castle in the clouds.

Again I say.....'humility is your friend'....

 

uh oh that skin is turning green now (like the yeech skin I remember)

all ur bases are mine !!!!!

I believe you mean "All your bases are belong to us!"   

Get even w/ me? I don't think so...

Doreen goes back to LOS and takes away alllll of TasT points

As of late, it seems to me that so very many of the more "3d" looking skins are, well, not well-done. Hippy has some great stuff. That skin of Mercury's above was wonderful (although not my thing)and there are some other great skinners. But many of the more 3d skins are just beveled buttons and stuff. Reminds me of the days when 3d buttons were first catching on on the web...I don't care for the look.

Someone mentioned Mormegil's Toon-XP. That's a great example of a graphic heavy 3d skin done VERY well. It's polished, it's fun. It's immersive. I like it.

At any rate, a few people seem pretty defensive, so here's the disclaimer: I've been around since WB was Neil's project pre 1.x. I've seen just about everything that's come along. This is my opinion, and I'm entitled to it.

But, IMHO, some of the best skins were some of the first, even though they "lacked" features. (I still love decoder.)

wonder why it is no one has pointed out the 3D space and editing in Photoshop?

as far as textures go, use your layer styles and edit as desired save, the use it again and again with minor tweaks as you like.

3D in a 2d space is an illusion of depth, if anyone thinks you can not get that illusion with any graphics progem they are mistaken.

tis a silly argument considering that a skin rendered in 3d, is still only displayed with the illusion of depth because the 3d objet it not revolved in the least and the engine can not do that to begin with so it is a 2d snap shot of a 3d object. Anyone ready to purchase Maya or MAX for skinning along with the addons for the real life like rendering?

Unless someone is going to create a 3D GUI and skinning engine to handle huge rendered objects and beable to map them out as the move whats the point of going there?

Doreen goes to LOS and takes away TasT "red" text (now that will hurt!)

So, I plural, can Max or Maya export to bmp,jpg, or png? With png at least there is a z layer.

z layer

What the heck is that?

Ah.

CerebroJD must investigate this further.....

I think z layer is on the z axis. The third dimention if you will.

I know that Tiggz. I was just referring to the fact that one can simulate depth with the alpha layer. Hence, the third axis or z axis or, z layer. I was thinking about this because its hard to retain any 3D effect with just the x,y plane in bitmaps, unless of course you have a background. I just asked because I'm experimenting for my next theme.