What FA is missing out on.
14 years ago
Okay, so on DeviantArt, I've been posting things I've done in GMod. Now, I know what you're all thinking. "Croc, seriously? You're wasting your time with screenshots when you can draw better things?" Well, yes. But it's not as simple as taking a screenshot. Allow me to give an example.
Here is an unedited screenshot from GMod. As you can see, after posing, all I did was change the material to shiny, and made the color for the model a dark grey.
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/.....krules0001.jpg
Now, I take it into Photoshop, and do an epic fuckton of editing and doodling. Eventually, it ends up like this.
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/.....SteelRouge.jpg
I would upload them here to FA, but FA has a rule about posting screenshots. Not sure if that applies to ones you Photoshop edit or not, but there ya go. Oh, and I'll include a link below to my DA folder with all my edited things in it.
http://chaoscroc.deviantart.com/gallery/34715831
Here is an unedited screenshot from GMod. As you can see, after posing, all I did was change the material to shiny, and made the color for the model a dark grey.
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/.....krules0001.jpg
Now, I take it into Photoshop, and do an epic fuckton of editing and doodling. Eventually, it ends up like this.
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/.....SteelRouge.jpg
I would upload them here to FA, but FA has a rule about posting screenshots. Not sure if that applies to ones you Photoshop edit or not, but there ya go. Oh, and I'll include a link below to my DA folder with all my edited things in it.
http://chaoscroc.deviantart.com/gallery/34715831
FA+

Honestly, it's basically just a glorified Poser. I see hundreds of those images all over the place, and if I am going to be my brutally honest self; they're never impressive. For some people they work but, in order to be impressive, the 3D models have to be hand-crafted, not edited with a 3-D pre-form program. Which is really difficult to do. I'd stick with the drawing; something about hand-drawn work, even if digitally drawn, tends to make it look better. That's just my two cents.
Not to mention you're also doing a plenty of after effects work on it, so it should be perfectly fine.
Also, props for knowing the rules. Not even all mods (lookin' at you, Pinkuh) know them.
Not to mention there are quite a bit of Second Life screenshots floating around, but even that is sketchy business, because just like poser, there's a lot of posing and stuff you can do in that, with the addition of actually making and building stuff, so you can use that creatively aswell.