Hmm... Am I the only one?

i still like willow more ;)
btw i have a problem making my backgrounds because rendering so many plants would take two weeks. seriously, i tried, no way, i cannot render them. so i decided to make a mix of 3d render and 3d rendered stock. after that i found myself with bunches and bunches of png's and i wondered why not to offer them, maybe someone needs them. you don't have to use ONLY them, but they may help to add a little touch. i too don't agree too much on images entirely based on this kind of manipulation. i would really love to have a computer allowing me to render huge and detailed images, though...

I'm someone who has a smallish stock account on dA, where I offer both 3d and photographic stock. Two sets of people use my stock: photomanippers, and psp'ers who use it to make tags for MSN groups.

A lot of really bad stuff is made with my stock; there are a couple of things which have been just cut'n'paste a character I've made and a bg someone else has done which have been popular on dA, but for the most part when people just cut'n'paste, the only attention it gets is from stockers thanking the artist for choosing them. A lot of suspect things have been done with my photos, too.

But I live in hope of pieces like this: Ballet Dancers by astraline. She combined several different stock elements including mine, to make something IMO really new and worthwhile. It's partly in hope of art like that that I make stock.