Every now and then a 10+ page thread appears where people bitch and moan about piracy, india, china, world conspiracies etc. My point is that it’s pointless, and that everyone is pretty much contributing to it, even if it’s in a very small way. No offense to Peter Guthrie, i consider him to be one of the top 3d arch viz artists, but i think that things like his blog contribute greatly to this state of affairs. Us helping eachother here on the forum, also does that, but in a far smaller scale due to the nature of this particular forum where you need to be legit to even access it - which in turn leads to somewhat loyal competition.
While i did learn a lot from other people on the forums and through tutorials, the situation has changed drastically compared to the early 2000s, the field has become super saturated, and it doesn’t really make that much sense to be so generous, unless it’s a closed community such as this one. I don’t see a point of sharing your secrets. You don’t even have to send someone overseas to train the cheap workforce that runs on a bowl of rice a day. All they need is internet, everything is already available on it.
I don’t think i’ve seen a single realistic lawn in a rendering until PG posted his tutorial. Now, there are hundreds posted every day using the exact same technique. So if you go to evermotion, you’ll find loads of really good renderings, coming from all these 3rd world places that you’re bashing so much in this thread. Nothing personal, but most of them are way better than what i see here.
Icube guys used to post on evermotion, they used to post here back when they were “dva na kub” or something like that, but they never, EVER, shared any detail about any aspect of their work. Which i actually respect. For a long long while, i think they were the only ones that could produce very convincing, or at least eye pleasing greenery out of 3d elements.
Zuliban also never shared anything, and on one occasion when he did, i think he gave fake settings. What people did not know was that he took months to produce a set of images, which is totally unacceptable in a professional environment. But it raised the bar and gave homework to a lot of people. The thing is, they found ways to reproduce that quality and actually apply it in the field, but they probably valued all the time invested into learning that.
Once you serve everything on a silver platter, it loses value.
I don’t hate anything in this world (and i’ve lived through a war) but i do hate evermotion. Doing arch viz and 3d graphics in general is fun, but evermotion ruined it for everyone except the people in india, and greedy developers/architects.
