OOPS!
Perusing the feeds tonight I find that I have inadvertently featured a template item in the last few days :D. Since I took an anti template stance several months ago and have not changed my mind much, the mention was only because I hadn't seen the template in use. Whoever uses a new template first of course "seems" original. Don'tcha love it?
I'm not going to point out the item in question. It doesn't really matter. My APPLAUSE however goes to the template designer and not the person (actually more than one I see from other posts) who pasted the fabric in a layer and called it theirs.
That's the news this eve. I try to stand behind my posts. Sometimes "retractions" are a part of that.
I'm not going to point out the item in question. It doesn't really matter. My APPLAUSE however goes to the template designer and not the person (actually more than one I see from other posts) who pasted the fabric in a layer and called it theirs.
That's the news this eve. I try to stand behind my posts. Sometimes "retractions" are a part of that.
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I've seen so many bloggers take this anti template stance yet they fail so many times to recognise them and end up featuring items made with templates so often, and why? because they like them and the item looks good.....nothing wrong with that :)
If the template designers wanted that much credit for their own work then they would be selling clothing made with those instead of selling their templates to anyone who wants them.
I have thought about your comments on shoes and jewelry and the like. Actually I have thought about those things before reading your comment :D.
I can't speak authoritatively on shoes as I have no idea what is involved in some of the shoe making. I can say that when I see the very same tennis shoes over and over again in different colors (and sometimes textures that don't fit) I am not impressed :D.
I CAN speak somewhat knowledgeably on the jewelry process. A single bangle is a single bangle more or less -- no mater whether made from a sculpt or from a torus, a row of pearls is a row of pearls whether or not nanoprims are used. It is how the jeweler puts them together that makes the difference. A slightly complex necklace or set of earrings can take me several hours to make using a variety of traditional building shapes or nanoprims. For me, it is the process that is part of my definition of the term "created by". I can whip out a simple bangle in a few clicks. I don't impress myself with those -- sculpties or no.
I have seen dozens of jeans off of the same templates. Many of the designers only change the logo on the back. Some tint the fabric, some add a decal or two. Even I could "make" a pair of jeans this way in a very few clicks of a graphics program. To me, that is not being creative. There is little skill involved.
I have seen occasions when a designer has made so many changes to the template that it does become something "original"; unfortunately these are very rare.
Jewelry that is simply a bead rez generated chain with a single sculpty attached is not all that creative, I agree. Luckily I don't see a lot of those :D.
So I guess, for me it isn't the product per se, it is the wide spread use -- and what comes into my personal virtual world.