-From Dragoneer in the forums
As many people have noticed we ARE removing submission containing Spore creations to Fur Affinity. While we recognize there is an amazing wealth of creative potential with Spore's creature creator, the bottom line is that the images and submissions are still created using a generator and rely on pre-made (though tweakable) modifications and components.

As always, we recommend people upload Spore creations to something akin to Photobucket or Imageshack and link to them via their journals (or even create a forum thread to showcase their creations. You can upload your creations all you want to the forums!).

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As this is your site, your word is law of course. But I would like to argue in favor of limited Spore postings, much like second life has been granted.


After Dragoneer deleted my posted spore pictures I replied with the following

Spore creatures are created by the user, much in the same way that second life does. The only real limitation is that you can't add custom textures in spore. Otherwise spore is virtually the same as second life, but uses a much larger base of "building block shapes". As I have created several second life creatures myself, I would urge you to hold off deletion until the subject has been discussed at length.

You might want to consider using the same guidelines that Second life uses, especially when the full version comes out.

-I'd like to expand that by adding the following

As time passes graphic design software tends to get easier to use, as most users don't appreciate software that gets harder to use from upgrade to upgrade. So this begs the question, when does graphic design program becomes so easy to use that it is no longer considered art? Will there be a day when design programs like sphere 3d and maya, are too easy to use and are no longer acceptable simply because they include huge libraries of ready-made parts and "building blocks"?

Here on FA we already have a rather good policy for easy-to use design programs, like second life. Spore is very similar to second life in that it uses standard building blocks to build creatures or objects. The spore creature creator further simplifies that aspect of creating creatures, by including dozens of standard body parts. However, just like in second life each body part is able to be altered substantially from its base shape. Which is why I'm (Granted Im basically a no-body here) in favor of the same limited-posting rule be applied to Spore.