Post #599340 by Badd Tiki on Tue, Jul 26, 2011 12:50 PM

I posted this quite awhile back but I'll post again as this thread is relevant.

I've been 3d modelling for years and did this for a game called Zero Gear.

I have a track, based on an island, with tiki huts, palms, beaches, and a volcano shortcut/jump. I need to try and take some pics one of these days. Maybe I can dig something up...

I've often had the discussions about 'is digital art real, does it have soul?', whatever.

Who's to say. I know when I did that stuff I really enjoyed bringing tiki into a game that a lot of people could play/experience. I enjoyed doing it, and it look a lot of time.

Sure, it's not as long lasting maybe. It's a more elusive art form. Especially for games. A game could be very popular today and never gets played again after next week. And my art isn't even that great.
But to say it's not art, that it doesn't take talent, well that's completely wrong imo. I could show off tons (of other peoples) work that just blows my mind, by the detail and creativity that is put into it.

If humans cause some huge breakdown in the system, nuclear apocolypse or something you're more likely to run into art that was painted or carved than digital art. But does that make it any more/less real? Does it have less soul because it's in electrons and not atoms.
Humans have souls and they are made of both electrons and atoms.
Does the soul come from the material/tools or from the human that poured their soul into the creation of it regardless the medium?