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Old October 13th, 2008, 12:41 AM   #101
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I also hit Renderosity daily to check on their free stuff, forums, and general hobbyist 3D news. It's a great community and there is always someone there willing to help wherever they can.

My take on whether using someone else's 3D assets is still art is this. You could have the world's most amazing 3D models with fantastic textures and so on. The problem is that it doesn't tell a story until such time as a 3D artist takes it and builds a scene with it. The meshes/models themselves are a means to an end IMHO. This doesn't in any way mean that I consider the meshes to be arbitrary in the process of creating 3D art. It just means that one can't live without the other, just like brushes and paints don't paint masterpieces, artists do.

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